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The Team
Students
- Ryan Beckner
- Full-time worker. Boy-band good looks.
- 2nd-year undergrad triple majoring in Biological Sciences/Biochemistry/Self-loathing
- Cashing checks and snapping necks
- Cuttlefish
- Derek Gasaway
- Wiki and math help
- 2nd-year undergrad majoring in Biology/Computer Science
- Curious about web design and mathematical modelling. Also does archery.
- Tierra 0080.gen
- Rikki Baker Keusch
- Full-time member. After project was split up, focussed on getting mCherry+AroF and promoter+TyrR constructs up and running. Miniprep goddess. Is also treasurer and tried not to depress the team too much by limiting reminders of our dwindling budget to not that often.
- 2nd-year undergrad double-majoring in Biology and Molecular Engineering
- Dances with Rhythmic Bodies in Motion, sings with University Chorus and the Women’s Ensemble, teaches 3- and 4- year-olds how to pop & lock, and spends the rest of her time in various libraries as research for her goal of the most comfortable all-nighter.
- Streptococcus pyogenes: She’s had scarlet fever twice, so she feels a special kinship with this bacterium.
- Kevin Yang
- Part-time member. I helped come up with much of the initial idea and conceptual theory behind the project, and did a lot of the background research. I designed lots and lots and lots of primers. I helped with troubleshooting.
- 2nd year undergrad. Tripling in Biology, Biochemistry, and Medieval Torture Devices. Pre-med represent.
- Reading books, playing piano, and playing violin is basically all I do when I’m not in lab and don’t have other work.
- A water bear. They look really cool and they’ll actually survive when the apocalypse comes.
- Eliot Joya
- Full time, did lab-techy stuff (I got really good at making agar plates), handled much of the mutator cloning and mutagenesis, and caused at least half the setbacks the team experienced.
- At the time of writing, rising 3rd year, majoring in Biological Sciences, specializing in microbiology, non pre-med (the lazy git). Most likely also pursuing a history minor.
- Biology, diseases, coffee, European history and literature, breaking the established order of nature for personal gain, the oxford comma, and emotional masochism.
- A cat, particularly one of the lazy or snarkier ones.
- Ryan McGuire Singh
- Part-time overall (actually full-time for the second half of the summer). Initially shadowed Eliot, then split work for mutators with him. Overnights, miniprep, colony PCR, run gels, overnights, miniprep, colony PCR, run gels...also did assorted side projects as needed and was the only member to come into lab every single day for the last several weeks(weekends are for squares).
- Planning on pursuing a major in Biological Sciences, focusing on molecular bio. Non-premed representing! May become Dr. Singh one day, but not THAT kind of Dr. Singh (there are already plenty of those).
- I love video games - despite having virtually no means to play them currently (no consoles + my computer is a Mac + a $0 Steam account). I also enjoy reading and having Internet time (*introversion intensifies*). There is no place I enjoy being in more than a quiet, clean, well-lighted place. Animal shelter volunteering is also fun.
- Any extinct species? Therizinosaurus cheloniformis. Spirit lab instrument? Analytical balance.
- Annie Zhang
- Part time. Did a little bit of project planning, simple wet-lab things, but mostly administrative work like contacting sponsors and sales rep, ordering reagents, organizing meetings.
- Third year undergraduate majoring in biological sciences and minoring in statistics. Very fun.
- Making paper crafts, cooking, dancing, reading cool science articles/papers, lying around and doing nothing (I call it meditating).
- The majestic wolf. Occasionally
(Constantly)transforms into moon moon.
Advisers
- Michael Rust
- Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
- Faculty Adviser
- Vivian Choi
- MSTP Adviser
- Danny Chan
- Graduate Adviser
- Justin Chew
- MSTP Adviser
- Majored in Neuorobiology
