TJ Ciesla

TJ is a Duke junior majoring in biomedical engineering with a certificate in genome science and policy from Tampa, FL. While not iGEMing, he dances on the Duke Raas team, plays the ukulele and optimizes his calorie to vegetable ratio. He likes his coffee black.

Matthew Farnitano

Matthew Farnitano is a junior at Duke University majoring in Biology with minors in chemistry and music. This is his second year as a member of Duke’s iGEM team, and he plans to pursue a Ph.D. following his undergraduate career. In addition to his lab life, Matt plays French horn with the Duke Wind Symphony, and has served as piano accompanist and pit orchestra member for a number of musical theatre productions with Duke’s Hoof’n’horn troupe. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and loves travelling, having visited 49 US states (and counting). As an Eagle Scout, Matt loves camping, hiking, and backpacking, particularly in the beautiful Sierra Nevada mountains of California. He is spending the fall semester in South Africa studying wildlife ecology and conservation with the Organization for Tropical Studies.

Matthew Faw

Matthew Faw still believes in Santa. Nobody ruin it for him.

Delta Ghoshal

Delta's just a teensy bit of a hypocrite. Delta's just a teensy bit of a hypocrite. Delta's just a teensy bit of a hypocrite.

Mike Zhu

Mike is a junior studying Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science. Outside of iGEM, Mike conducts research with Dr. John Reif on DNA nanotechnology and is involved with the Chinese Dance team. He enjoys spending his free time cooking, eating, being Canadian, and falling asleep. After graduation, Mike plans to do something or the other with his life.

Garima Tomar

Garima, write a blurb pls.Garima, write a blurb pls. Garima, write a blurb pls. Garima, write a blurb pls. Garima, write a blurb pls.

Charlie Cooper

Charlie is a PhD candidate in Nick Buchler's lab. He is currently working on developing new tools to control biological processes.

Dr. Nicolas Buchler

Nick really likes oscillators, such as the cell cycle, metabolic rhythms, circadian clocks, and synthetic oscillators. Folks in his lab use a combination of synthetic biology, time lapse microscopy, microfluidics, comparative genomics, mathematical modelling, and molecular genetics to understand biological oscillation. When he’s not in lab, he’s at home on 5 acres in the Duke forest with his family. The summer fireflies are very satisfying to watch.

Dr. Charlie Gersbach

Dr. Gersbach is very nice to us, so he's allowed to not have a blurb yet.