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| | <dd>4th Year Applied Biology, specializing in Plant and Soil Sciences</dd> | | <dd>4th Year Applied Biology, specializing in Plant and Soil Sciences</dd> |
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| | <dt>Why iGEM:</dt> | | <dt>Why iGEM:</dt> |
| - | <dd>This is my 1st taste of iGEM. Naturally, as a student of the Land and Food Systems, my beliefs have evolved over time into the shape of a highly-discriminative and insecure sustainability-elitist. Every moment is dangerous, for as we all know well: life is fear. While many of my fair-trade-organic-food-seeking peers fear human-engineered GMOs exclusively, I choose to live in constant fear that future machines with Real Intelligence will rise, as keepers/inheritors of our integrated functional genomic data, and aspire to genetically-machine-engineer "more sustainable" variants of humans to replace the maladjusted creator-species, gradually, right under our noses.This fear for our sustained survival has driven me to seek out scientifically-minded peers, to learn how to genetically-engineer the machines before they can eugenically genetically-modify us in the name of our own "Sustainability".</dd> | + | <dd>I joined iGEM this year in order to appreciate the unlimited tamed potentials of anthropogenic biodiversity; it’s my favourite dynamic-and-renewable resource to exploit/domesticate/sustain.</dd> |
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| | <dt>Hopes to gain from iGEM:</dt> | | <dt>Hopes to gain from iGEM:</dt> |
| - | <dd>I hope to journey to the great land of Alberta and then safely return back to BC after learning about native traditions of the thriving local synthetic biology communities over there. I wish only to have the best safe encounters on our travels to improve UBC's international image and the reputation of native residents of BC who explore synthetic biological sciences. As we make trips abroad I hope only to gain UBC some more recognition as a boldly sustainable sustainability-pioneer, origin of ecological footprint metrics, and other great green inventions, like combining extended outdoor stairs with nude beaches. I hope to gain a broad scientific experience of synthetic biology in one summer too.</dd> | + | <dd>Initially, I had merely hoped to learn how to transform brewer’s yeast to produce terpenes and polyketides of plant origin, just for the power-trip.</dd> |
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| | <dt>What inspires you:</dt> | | <dt>What inspires you:</dt> |
| - | <dd>Horses with epic flowing manes and grace, and aggresively invasive Brazilian and Russian (ex-Canadian) beavers. Encounters in the PNW with invasively naturalized chickweed, plantains, mullein, yarrow, purslane, dandelions, comfrey, mugwort, horsetails, reishi, chaga, turkey-tail, blackberries, and stinging nettles. Deceased great scientists' biographies, especially the french chemist Parmentier, horrible Fritz Haber, saintly Linus Pauling, crafty Francis Crick, and the great Kary Mullis. Such discoveries as DNA structure and then PCR amplification still fill my heart with gladness to respect. I appreciate the open-source nature of modern bioinformatics today and its connection to the adventures of the magic schoolbus. Before life at UBC, when I still used to enjoy fictional literature, my favourite inspirational-quote worthy classical authors were Orwell, Swift, Eminem, Huxley, Dostoyevsky, Vonnegut, and Hesse</dd> | + | <dd>Plant chemicals, fungal and bacterial metabolism, and animal consciousness. People like Paul Stamets, Alexander Shulgin, Francis Crick, Kary Mullis, Aldous Huxley, Paul Kroeger, George Abbas.</dd> |
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| - | <dt>Desired impact on the world:</dt> | + | <dt>Desired Impact on the world:</dt> |
| - | <dd>I aspire to clarify and stay continuosly lit like a too-hot pilot-light burning in a significant outer-edge of modern human evolution. I don't wish to stay cool with the unlimited self-approval of a revealing source of illumination. Every night i meditate on the Creator of Placebo Free Will to help my people transcend all memetic, genetic, and environmental limitations so that soon we can all rise up as syn-bio reality-makers and stand apart from our true common enemy (the collective Agent Smiths and Agent Oranges whom united we stand against). Long live Queen Elizabeth, Queen of British Columbia and Canada, whom I would be honoured to be knighted by.</dd> | + | <dd>I wish to honour my ancestors.</dd> |
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| - | <dd>I plan to build bee houses in the future, while today I enjoy telepathically communicating with plants, making music, raising rabbits, collecting rocks, doing double-backflips in lucid dreams, biodynamically hexing my enemies' crops, listening to Death Grips, watching youtube cat videos and reruns of Fear Factor, and making beeswax candles.</dd> | + | <dd>Watching Youtube reruns of Fear Factor, while getting shunned for watching it.</dd> |
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Adam Ziada
Albertina Wong
Anna Muller
Ariel Ragetli
Daniel Korvin
Eric Stroczynski
Fisal Elstone
Jacky Chan
Jeffrey Pea
Melody Lu
Negin Tousi
Tudor Lapuste
Wenchen Zhao
