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<h3>Executive Board</h3> | <h3>Executive Board</h3> | ||
| - | <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2014/6/65/Missouri_Miners_EPuleo.png" alt="Joe Miner"/><h4>Emily Puelo</h4 | + | <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2014/6/65/Missouri_Miners_EPuleo.png" alt="Joe Miner"/><h4>Emily Puelo</h4> |
<div id="min"><p><b>President</b><br /><i>BioChemistry</i>"idk quote or something work with me guys"</p></div> | <div id="min"><p><b>President</b><br /><i>BioChemistry</i>"idk quote or something work with me guys"</p></div> | ||
<img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2014/1/1c/Missouri_Miners_HFrye.png" alt="Joe Miner"/><h4>Hannah Frye</h4><div id="min"><p><b>Vice President</b><br /><i>BioChemistry</i><br />"idk quote or something work with me guys"</p></div> | <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2014/1/1c/Missouri_Miners_HFrye.png" alt="Joe Miner"/><h4>Hannah Frye</h4><div id="min"><p><b>Vice President</b><br /><i>BioChemistry</i><br />"idk quote or something work with me guys"</p></div> | ||
Revision as of 02:09, 16 October 2014
Missouri Miners Team
Executive Board
Emily Puelo
President
BioChemistry"idk quote or something work with me guys"
Hannah Frye
Vice President
BioChemistry
"idk quote or something work with me guys"
Katherine Nelson
Public Relations Officer
Biological Sciences
"idk quote or something work with me guys"
Nocona Sanders
Treasurer
Physics/Applied Math
"idk quote or something work with me guys"
Kelsey Crossen
Secretary
Biological Sciences
"idk quote or something work with me guys"
Matthew Lindner
Web Master
Computer Science
I first heard of iGem through my roommate. He told me about some of the research the team was doing, and I was blown away. I started going to weekly meetings to learn more about their projects. I stuck around because I wanted to learn how a Computer Science student could help a synthetic biology group.
Kira Buckowing
Lab Manager
Biochemical Engineering
"idk quote or something work with me guys"
Edna Armstrong
Safety Liaison
I'm not sure what your major is......
"idk quote or something work with me guys"
Levi Palmer
Former Lab Manager
I'm not sure what your major is......
In high school biology, we learned about a chemical called Sonic Hedgehog. It's a growth factor that helps stem cells differentiate and become mature cell types (e.g. skin, muscle, blood cells). When I learned that we could control what stem cells became, I was hooked on biology. I continued to feed this fascination over the next few years by reading anything I could get on biology. In a book of scientific articles, I found one on gene therapy, which is replacing "faulty" genes with healthy ones. For me, this was the start of thinking about modifying DNA to fix problems or even to make completely new phenotypes.
I went to 5 booths at Minerama, one of them was iGEM. When I looked up 'Synthetic Biology,' I knew it was the field for me. It was a place where, in time, I could actually do DNA modification myself. Plus, the project they were working on sounded really neat; a microbial blood glucose sensor for diabetic patients. I went to the meeting and really felt welcomed by the team, unlike some other teams I visited. So I stuck around, visited the lab, talked to the workers, saw how much they cared about their work, and quickly fell in love with SynBio.
Communications & Publications Committee
No One
Biological Sciences
"haha you wish this were a joke"
Fundraising Committee
No One
Biological Sciences
"haha you wish this were a joke"
Public Relations Committee
No One
Biological Sciences
"haha you wish this were a joke"
Web Committee
No One
Biological Sciences
"haha you wish this were a joke"
Advisors
Dr. Katie Shannon
Associate Teaching Professor
Biological Sciences, Cytokinesis
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, B.A., 1994
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA , Ph.D., Cell and Developmental Biology, 2000
Dr. David J Westenberg
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences, Microbiology
Michigan State University, East Lansing, B.S. Microbiology and Public Health, 1982
University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, 1991
Sponsors
Missouri S&T iGEM is proudly supported by the Student Design and Experimental Learning Center
