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<p>We are a team of undergrads studying in University of Aberdeen. There's six of us - 5 biologists and 1 physicist.</p>
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Hi, I am Ana and I come from Transylvania (Romania), which you might now from the movies as Dracula’s home (creepy, right?). Since moving to Aberdeen to study Biochemistry with Immunology, I came across a lot of unexpected opportunities. In that sense, iGEM has been both a really intense and new experience: great fun, brilliant instructors and tons of exciting experiments. As part of the team, I do a lot of wet lab-work (it relaxes me, as geeky as it sounds), I am in charge of parts description and currently work on Antigen 43 (autotransporter protein) as a platform to express peptides on the cell surface of E.coli. I love being creative and coming up with new ideas. I am one of the optimistic members of the team and awkwardly enough, the one who will always get easily excited (honestly, like a kid!) when experiments work as planned. I love Spanish culture, latino dances, travelling and teaching kids. If you don’t find me in the lab, I might be on the dance floor!
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Hi! I’m a third year Physics student at University of Aberdeen. I’m originally from a small town in Bulgaria, where my grandfather got me excited about technology and engineering. I came to Aberdeen in search for a chance to meet and collaborate with people at the frontiers of science. So, you can imagine then how I excited I was when I got offered to take part in the uni’s iGEM team and work on a cutting edge science project. So far it’s been amazing working with everyone and trying our best the world’s biggest problems. As per my experience with mathematics, problem solving and computers, I am mainly involved in modelling and simulating our system in order to optimize the design and make it function as we want. Parallel to this, I’m building an optical fluorescent detector to conceptualize our disease testing method. I’m also involved with the design of our Wiki and take part in the public outreach. When I’m free from my duties, I like to travel, take pictures and ride my bike.
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Hello, I’m Jamie and an undergrad student of Immunology studying at the University of Aberdeen. Originally from Sandwich Kent, I moved to Edinburgh, Scotland when I was young. In my spare time I like building and playing with bikes and computers. I am fortunate that I was offered the opportunity to take part in iGEM with my uni, and glad that I seized it. I turned down a paid summer placement in the U.S. for iGEM, but have no regrets about doing so. iGEM is much more fun and interesting than I was expecting.  My role on this project was (with Joseph) to take the BioBrick produced by the iGEM Edinburgh team in 2011 and insert a FLAG/His Tag inside a multiple-cloning-site, onto the end of YFP. This would allow future teams to easily insert a gene for a protein which the cell would then surface express.
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Hi I’m James, originally from Hertfordshire near Cambridge. I have a BSc in Pharmacology from Portsmouth University. I am now entering Honours for a second BSc in Biotechnology (Applied Molecular Biology). I am involved in the designing and testing of the quorum sensing system.
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I’m a third year undergraduate in microbiology. I am the ‘local person’ on the team as I have lived near Aberdeen for most of my life. I joined the team as I realised how unique an opportunity participating in iGEM is. The role I have been fulfilling in the team is one of the lead human practices contacts, and working on the modification of Ice Nucleation Protein. As well as being interested in microbiology I also enjoy spending time outdoors and have spent some time working for Outward Bound in South Africa. In the future I hope to find a way to combine these interests in some way.
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Hey! My name is Martyna and I study Biomedical Sciences specializing in Molecular Biology at the University of Aberdeen. Although I started off with Medicine, I soon discovered that it is the science behind medicine that fascinates me the most. Although my main field of interest is cancer and stem cells, I decided to participate in iGEM as I like the interdisciplinary aspect of the competition. I think synthetic biology is a very interesting field which in the future may answer a lot of questions we struggle with nowadays. Plus hey, what's better than spending your holidays in the lab! ;) My role in the team was to work on Ag43 to remove PstI sites, insert FLAG/HIS and multiple cloning sites as well as mimotopes specific to Trypanosoma. In my free time, I enjoy aggressive roller-skating, rock music and long walks with my German shepherd. I am looking forward to meeting everyone at the Gigant Jamboree at MIT!
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<p>Structural and physiological study of the evolution of outer membrane porin mediated antibiotic resistance of E.coli strains during prolonged antibiotic therapy. Molecular dissection of the mechanisms by which proteins are able to transduce mechanical force applied to biological membranes into a physiological response. E. coli contains several examples of such mechanosensitive ion channels. By identifying the similarities and differences between these mechanosensitive channel proteins, a picture can be built of the requirements for mechanosensation, a universal and basic component of the sensory interface between the cell and the environment.</p>
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<p><b>Research interests:</b><br>Cell biology of Chlamydia pathogenesis:<br>
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<p>Dr Moura has a background in dynamical systems and statistical physics. His research interests in these areas include transient chaos, nonhyperbolic chaotic scattering, and chaotic advection of flows. Since moving to Aberdeen, he has been applying physics and mathematics to understand fundamental biological processes, in collaborations with biologists in Aberdeen and elsewhere. Biological problems he is actively working on include: mathematical modelling of DNA replication, dynamics and regulation of protein synthesis in uni-cellular organisms, modelling the responses of pathogenic fungi species to combinations of stresses, homeostasis of bacteria, macromolecular dynamics in cellular membranes.</p>
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<p>The lab has a long-standing interest in the control of gene expression at the level of mRNA.  This started in 1993, when Berndt joined the University of Bern where he worked with Prof Daniel Schümperli. Prior to that he did his PhD in the group of Prof Theo Koller at the Institute of Cell Biology of the ETH in Zürich, with Dr Andrzej Stasiak and Dr Elisabeth DiCapua, analysing the interaction of the recombination protein RecA rotein with DNA. He then spent 5 years in the lab of Dr Steve West at Cancer Research UK studying the Biochemistry of Genetic Recombination. At Bern University, he identified factors that control the processing of histone RNA to mature mRNA.  This work was continued at the University of Aberdeen and has led to insight into the molecular function of these factors.</p>
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<p>Salmonella Typhi is an exclusive human pathogen and the cause of typhoid fever, a life-threatening systemic disease that affects millions of people and kills more than 200,000 every year. The goal of my research is to gain insights into the molecular and cellular mechanisms of Salmonella Typhi pathogenesis and its human-adaptation. We are using an advanced cell biological approach, where imaging and biochemical analyses are integrated by genetic, genomic and proteomic methods. These studies also intend to address fundamental questions in the cell biology of the host. One main question that we are focusing on is about the host mechanisms restricting S. Typhi from infecting non-susceptible hosts.</p>
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<p>Ian Stansfield graduated from the University of Sheffield with a BSc (Hons) Microbiology in 1986. Post-graduate studies, on the subject of cytochrome P450 enzymes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, were carried out under the supervision of Prof. Steve Kelly at the University of Sheffield. This work led to the award of a PhD in 1990. His post-doctoral research was carried out with Professor Mick Tuite at the University of Kent from 1990 to 1996. This work focused on studies of protein synthesis in yeast, investigating how the accuracy of protein synthesis is maintained, and the mechanism of translation termination. In 1996, he was appointed a Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2003, Reader in 2009, and Personal Chair in 2011. He is currently coordinator of the Systems Biology Integrative Centre within the Institute of Medical Sciences. </p>
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Supervisors

We would like to thank our beloved supervisors who helped us on this journey and who made all of this possible.


Dr Susan Black

Recent Research

Structural and physiological study of the evolution of outer membrane porin mediated antibiotic resistance of E.coli strains during prolonged antibiotic therapy. Molecular dissection of the mechanisms by which proteins are able to transduce mechanical force applied to biological membranes into a physiological response. E. coli contains several examples of such mechanosensitive ion channels. By identifying the similarities and differences between these mechanosensitive channel proteins, a picture can be built of the requirements for mechanosensation, a universal and basic component of the sensory interface between the cell and the environment.

Dr Rey Carabeo

Ph.D., Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.S., Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, UCLA

Research interests:
Cell biology of Chlamydia pathogenesis:

  • -  Signal transduction and actin dynamics during Chlamydia invasion
  • -  Modulation of host cell focal adhesions by Chlamydia
  • - Biological and computational modelling of early events in Chlamydia infection

Dr Alessandro Moura

Lecturer in Physics. Dr de Moura holds a PhD in Physics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil.

Dr Moura has a background in dynamical systems and statistical physics. His research interests in these areas include transient chaos, nonhyperbolic chaotic scattering, and chaotic advection of flows. Since moving to Aberdeen, he has been applying physics and mathematics to understand fundamental biological processes, in collaborations with biologists in Aberdeen and elsewhere. Biological problems he is actively working on include: mathematical modelling of DNA replication, dynamics and regulation of protein synthesis in uni-cellular organisms, modelling the responses of pathogenic fungi species to combinations of stresses, homeostasis of bacteria, macromolecular dynamics in cellular membranes.

Dr Berndt Müller

Research Interests

The lab has a long-standing interest in the control of gene expression at the level of mRNA. This started in 1993, when Berndt joined the University of Bern where he worked with Prof Daniel Schümperli. Prior to that he did his PhD in the group of Prof Theo Koller at the Institute of Cell Biology of the ETH in Zürich, with Dr Andrzej Stasiak and Dr Elisabeth DiCapua, analysing the interaction of the recombination protein RecA rotein with DNA. He then spent 5 years in the lab of Dr Steve West at Cancer Research UK studying the Biochemistry of Genetic Recombination. At Bern University, he identified factors that control the processing of histone RNA to mature mRNA. This work was continued at the University of Aberdeen and has led to insight into the molecular function of these factors.

Dr Stefania Spanò

Research Interests

Salmonella Typhi is an exclusive human pathogen and the cause of typhoid fever, a life-threatening systemic disease that affects millions of people and kills more than 200,000 every year. The goal of my research is to gain insights into the molecular and cellular mechanisms of Salmonella Typhi pathogenesis and its human-adaptation. We are using an advanced cell biological approach, where imaging and biochemical analyses are integrated by genetic, genomic and proteomic methods. These studies also intend to address fundamental questions in the cell biology of the host. One main question that we are focusing on is about the host mechanisms restricting S. Typhi from infecting non-susceptible hosts.

Prof Ian Stansfield

Biography

Ian Stansfield graduated from the University of Sheffield with a BSc (Hons) Microbiology in 1986. Post-graduate studies, on the subject of cytochrome P450 enzymes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, were carried out under the supervision of Prof. Steve Kelly at the University of Sheffield. This work led to the award of a PhD in 1990. His post-doctoral research was carried out with Professor Mick Tuite at the University of Kent from 1990 to 1996. This work focused on studies of protein synthesis in yeast, investigating how the accuracy of protein synthesis is maintained, and the mechanism of translation termination. In 1996, he was appointed a Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2003, Reader in 2009, and Personal Chair in 2011. He is currently coordinator of the Systems Biology Integrative Centre within the Institute of Medical Sciences.

Dr Samantha Miller

Research Interests

I am currently a lecturer in the School of Medical Sciences. My research career is focussed on structure and function relationships in two sets of ion channels in Escherichia coli involved in bacterial survival of changes in their environments. My group is currently funded by a Wellcome Trust Programme Grant, in collaboration with Prof. Ian Booth and Dr T. Rasmussen (Aberdeen), Prof. Jim Naismith, (St. Andrews) and Dr S. Conway (Oxford), a BBSRC Research Grant with Prof. Jim Naismith, (St. Andrews) and a Marie Curie ITN Grant.



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