Team:Penn/Team

About the Team

The Penn iGEM 2014 team is comprised of five undergraduates, with backgrounds ranging from biochemistry to chemical engineering to bioengineering.

The Team Members

	Jane Shmushkis Bioengineering, 2017		Amey "I have one more question" Vrudhula Bioengineering, 2017
	Nikita Rao Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2016		Miranda Wang Biochemistry, 2016
	Renyao Wei Bioengineering and Computer Science, 2015

The Advisors

	Brian Chow, Ph.D Assitant Professor Chow's laboratory aims to create technological innovations to enhance therapeutic interventions in CNS disorders, and to this end, focuses on engineering tools to elucidate, diagnose and treat the diseased brain.		Spencer Glantz Bioengineering (PhD student)
	Michael Magaraci Bioengineering (PhD student)		Danielle Fields Bioengineering
	Danny Cabrera iGEM guru		Josh Tycko iGEM guru

Nothing would be possible without him

Sevile Mannickarottu Director of Bioengineering Instructional Laboratories

We would also like to thank the following people for their help

Dr. Mark Goulian for his generous donation of AMB-1 and protocols
Dr. Karen Hogan for her knowledge of microbiology and microscopes
Dr. David Issadore for sharing his knowledge on magnetic particles and access to NMR in his lab
Lauren Marquez for shooting the introduction film for us
Daniel Alex Daley-Montgomery for assiting on designing the wiki
Professor Sid Deliwala for arranging a presentation for Penn M&T summer program
David Gdula from NEB for providing us with various reagents