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Meet Our Team by Hovering Over the Plasmid Parts

Modeling

Amit Gal DEGREE: fourth year BSc. Physics and BSc. Computer Science
ABOUT ME:26 years old, fourth year BSc. Physics and BSc. Computer Science student. Served in the IDF as a combat intelligence officer. I have a multidisciplinary passion due to a major interest in many areas in science and technology. I am also interested in music and sports.

Wiki Design

Priel Shmukler DEGREE: third year B.Sc. Information Systems Engineering student
ABOUT ME: I am 26 years old and I am a research assistant in my department in the field of artificial intelligence. I love team sport, gadgets, and exploring different cultures..

Research Team

Reut Sapir DEGREE: second year Biology and Psychology student
ABOUT ME: I am 24 years old. I participate in 'Ashalim' - which is an excellence program in the Faculty of Natural science. In the army I was a commander of ground radar. I am very curious, love new challenges and have great memory for unimportant facts.

Roni Itzhaki DEGREE: third year Biotechnology Engineering student
ABOUT ME:I am 26 years old. In the army I was a Mortars officer in the infantry brigade. I have great ambition and volunteering spirit, and I recently finished a ten year program of developing leadership among youth..

Tal Atedgi DEGREE: third year Biotechnology Engineering student
ABOUT ME: I am 26 years old. Today I live in Beer- Sheva, Originally from Ashdod and for that I am in love with the sea. I am also addicted to TV shows, music and have great passion for science.

Tom Yemini DEGREE: third year Biotechnology Engineering student
ABOUT ME: 26 years old. I believe that biological machines are the most advanced technology in the world and it should be exploited for human purpose. I like music and play on the piano.

Shani Gal-Oz DEGREE: second year Life Science student
ABOUT ME:I am 22 years old, I live in Lehavim, a small town in the north of our beautiful Negev. I served as a flight control simulator instructor in the IDF Air Force. I am a dancer and choreographer and also very curious and like challenges and new experiences.

Student Instructor

Stav Shamir DEGREE: Fourth year Biotechnology Engineering student.
ABOUT ME: I am 26 Years old, Originally from the southern city in Israel- Eilat. I have great passion for science since childhood, and I believe that thoroughness leads to successes.

Human Practice Team

Liron Farjon DEGREE: 3rd year Economics and Political science
ABOUT ME: 25 years old, third year Economics and Political Science student. My dream is to found my own Start-Up, until then I am taking part in student's leadership programs and different initiatives. More than everything I love traveling around the world and meeting new people.

Ori Loval DEGREE: second year B.Sc. Industrial Engineering and Management student
ABOUT ME: 26 years old. I have a special passion for working in a team, and have been fascinated by new technologies ever since I was a child. I love having dreams that seem impossible yet challenge me and I enjoy meeting new friends, hiking, reading and going out.

Supervisor

Smadar Cohen Prof. Smadar Cohen from the Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben Gurion University, received her BSc, MSc and PhD (Biophysics) from Tel Aviv University, and went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with Prof. Robert Langer). Prof. Cohen’s research explores several areas in modern biotechnology, from designing of instructive biomaterials for inducing tissue regeneration and tissue engineering ex- and in-vivo to implementation of intelligent delivery systems for therapeutic peptides and proteins. AlgiMatrix– a scaffold for 3-D cell culture – has been developed in her group and has been licensed and developed into a product by Invitrogen Corporation (Carlsbad, California). Prof. Cohen also developed BL-1040, an alginate-based biomaterial for treating acute myocardial infarction (in clinical phase I /II study).

Us As a Team

Our team started with 10 students, strangers to each other, trying to build a project together. We came from different departments in Ben-Gurion University, each one of us with his role in the group, and all of us together with a lot of motivation and one main goal- to come with the best project as iGEM BGU 2014 team. Soon we found that each one of us could learn how to help the others and outreach his specific role. We consulted, helped and enjoyed each other's company during the way.

We have learned that working together as a team can earn us some amazing friends and take our project to new heights.

We had a great time and we are proud of the outcome.

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