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<p><h3><center>Penn State iGEM 2014 Team Members</center></h3></p>

   <td>Ashlee is a supersenior Chemical Engineer in the Schreyer Honors College and is also completing a minor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She has worked in the laboratory of Dr. Howard Salis for two years and started her second project in January 2014 which she will use for her thesis. In her first project, she determined the ribosome binding footprint of <i>Escherichia coli</i> ribosomes to help improve Dr. Salis' Ribosome Binding Site Calculator. These results will be published in an upcoming paper. During the school year she works as an exam proctor for the Penn State Chemistry Department and is involved in various intramural sports and clubs, including the Penn State Outing Club. She loves to run, hike, bike, backpack, rock climb, ski, and play any outdoor sport. When she isn't in lab, she is most often found adventuring in the woods around Penn State or at Centre County PAWS animal shelter where she leads volunteer shifts and trains dogs. Her plans after graduation in the fall of 2014 are to either pursue a career in the pharmaceutical industry or go to graduate school with a focus on synthetic biology or environmental engineering. She hopes to move out to California or Colorado and thru-hike the Appalachian Trail after graduation (despite the picture below, she has not yet graduated). </td>

   <td>Clay Swackhamer is a senior majoring in Biological Engineering with a bioprocesses option. He is a Schreyer Honors Scholar and is using this codon optimization project as an honors thesis. Clay has been part of the Salis Lab for one year, but this is his first big boy project. He serves as a committee chair on Agricultural sciences student council, and is active in tennis club. Clay is minoring in Spanish and will be spending the fall semester taking courses in Alicante, Spain. Clay enjoys baseball, mountain biking, playing tennis, skiing, fishing, grilling food on a charcoal grill, and rehydrating with liquid wheat. Clay is interested in synthetic biology because of its enormous potential to advance many fields of science. His dream career would be engineering microbes useful for human colonies in space.</td>

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   <td>Emily is a Junior studying Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.  She is also pursuing a minor in Microbiology.  iGEM is Emily's first research experience of her undergraduate career, but she hopes to continue working in a lab for her remaining two years.  Outside of class Emily is very involved in Penn State's Dance Marathon, known as THON.  She has been a part a committee, helping to run security all of THON weekend, and is also an active member of a TETRA, a special interest THON organization.  Emily serves as a leader for the NEXUS club which mentors new and transfer students in the Eberly College of Sciince at Penn State.  When Emily isn't busy with classes or clubs, you can find her downtown at a local dance studio where she continues to pursue her favorite childhood hobby.  After graduation, Emily would like to further her education and work in a research lab.  She plans to remain in the State College or Greater Pittsburgh area as she considers these places home.</td>

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