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Team:York/Team
From 2014.igem.org
Team Members
In just 50 years, the University has become one of the top in the UK. We think this is because of its passion and dedication towards each of its subjects; something we share! Our team is made up of 20 undergraduates from a range of disciplines, as well as our two supervisors and advisor.
Undergraduates
Robyn Whiting
BSc Genetics First year
Robyn is currently a second year Geneticist. Robyn was involved in finding sponsors and raising money for the team. She also helps out in the labs! Outside of iGEM she loves baking and secretly wants to clone herself and rule the world.
Sarah Andrews
BSc Molecular Cell Biology First year
Fun fact: Actually called Tina!
Nikola Panayotov
BSc Biochemistry Second year
Nik is currently a Third Year Biochemist on a Year in Industry. Originally from Bulgaria. This is his second participation in the iGEM competition. He was involved in team building, fundraising, social events and lab work (workshops for the First Year Students). Enjoys watching movies and football (Chelsea fan!).
Ivan Gyulev
BSc Genetics Third year
I am a Fourth Year BSc in Genetics. This is my second iGEM competition. I was involved in design, cloning, characterization and making jokes. I also enjoy participating in outreach such as the York Researcher’s Night.
Hanna Esser
BSc Biochemistry First year
Bossed the labs
Ruth Haley
BSc Biochemistry First year
Ruth is currently a second year studying Biochemistry with a Year in Industry. Ruth worked throughout the summer to research the project, finalise the idea, help design the gene constructs and complete lab work. She also presented our project at the Young Synthetic Biologists Conference. Aside from iGEM, Ruth enjoys creating music in her band and is a enthusiastic Ultimate Frisbee Player.
Lindsey Dalzell
BSc Biology First year
Scouser
Ellie Davis
BSc Biology First year
Ellie is in her second year studying for a BSc in Biology. She’s very interested in science communications and the role it has in the media. Apart from research and human practices, she’s been running social media sites for the team and has written several articles on the project for various University of York media.
Joseph Tresise
MChem Chemistry Third year
Joseph is the only Chemistry student on the team and is currently working towards his Masters. His main responsibility has been the creation and design of the wiki although he also worked in the labs over the summer. His main hobbies are photography and many of his photos are used on the wiki to document our iGEM experience.
Ricardo Cañavate del Pino
BSc Biochemistry Second year
Spanish dude
Teodora Manea
BSc Biochemistry First year
Thea is currently starting her 2nd year studying Biochemistry. Thea has worked in the labs during the summer, designing our constructs and preparing our samples for submission to the registry. She has also organised and delivered outreach workshops in schools and developed ethics and sustainability surveys for the Human Practices part of our project. When she is not working on the iGEM project she enjoys not having nightmares about failed transformations.
Cauã Westmann
BSc Biology Third year
Cauã is a a final year visiting student from Brazil studying for a Bsc in Biology. He has already been part of two iGEM competitions before with the USP-Brazil team and each event has been an unique opportunity to learn a lot and make new friends. He has been involved in the project`s & BioBrick’s design, wetlab work and social events as the York Researcher’s Night. When he is not doing science (or at least trying to) his hobbies are photography, travelling and cooking.
Marieta Avramov
BSc Molecular Cell Biology First year
Marieta is a second year Molecular Cell Biology student from Varna, Bulgaria. She worked in the labs during the summer, and was involved in the Human Practices part of the project, mainly in doing the statistics for it. Whenever she has free time, she enjoys learning languages (already speaks 5!), singing and travelling.
Auriane Muse
BSc Biology Second year
Auriane is a third year student studying for a Bsc in Biology. Practically, her degree has been more focused on the ecological perspective. She was involved with research for the environmental aspects of the project and contributed to human practices and outreach events like York Researcher’s Night.
Vishnu Sunil: BSc Environmental Science Second year
Lucy Dye: BSc Biology First year
Maria Agapiou: BSc Biology First year
Tsvetelina Tsekova: BSc Genetics Second year
Arushi Aneja: MEng Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence
Acknowledgements
Dr Gavin Thomas, Dr James Chong, Dr Thorunn Helgason, Dr Leo Caves and Professor Maggie Smith for providing their input and advice as Senior Lecturers. Our team is indebted to them for the guidance they gave regarding the feasibility of our project at the start and supervising our progress throughout.
Rosanna Hennessy for helping us design our constructs and ensuring a trouble-free synthesis.
Dr Michael Schultze, Dr Daniel Ungar and Erica Kintz for attending our Sponsors event and giving input and feedback about our presentation and project.
The lab technicians, Jen Lee, Sam Farrell and Nikki Begg who kept our lab supplied and organised, while helping with any technical problems that arose over the summer.
Dr Erica Kintz and Dr Marjan van der Woude for providing us with some E. coli mutants and with 96 well plates for our characterisation.
Dr Andrew Leech for giving us advice on the design of our characterisation experiments.
Phil Roberts for providing design advice that created this wiki you are reading.
The 2014 York iGEM Team would like to thank all of the above for their advice and guidance throughout this competition, we know it wouldn't have been possible without these people giving up their time to aid us! Thank you very much!
