Team:Macquarie Australia/OurTeam/TeamMembers
From 2014.igem.org
2014 Macquarie iGEM team!
The students!
Leah Simmons
Leah, wants to pursue a career in medical research and believes it would be her humble contribution towards making the world better for everyone.
Eddie Park
Eddie is our plasmid prep extraordinaire. He describes himself as a keen traveller and basketball enthusiast. Eddie hopes to pursue a career in the wonderful world of synthetic biology.
Dean Southwood
Dean is our resident boy wonder who is pursing four majors (Biomolecular science, physics, chemistry and math). Dean wants to go into research that will combine his love for physics and organic chemistry.
Alice Fielding-Smith
Alice is our resident jack-of–all trades and plans on using her talents in Bioinformatics and Proteomics to further cancer research in future.
Amit Bhattacharjee
Amit hopes to pursue a career in science communication and enjoys public speaking / debating, board games and posting selfies on Facebook.
Sunny Wu
Sunny is our self-proclaimed buffer expert. He is highly interested in biochemistry, genetics and synthetic biology and plans on pursuing postgraduate studies in medicine or even a PhD.
Ahmed Sayed
Chris D'Netto
Nadia Abdel-Fatah
With killer business acumen and enviable lab skills Nadia is a valuable asset to both our wet lab and fundraising team. She is involved with a variety of youth initiatives and also organises events for several charity organisations.
Mitchell Jeitani
Mitchell is our main man behind the wiki. Mitchell harbours a special interest in pathology/microbiology and hopes to integrate this into his medical career.
William Klare
William is our lab ninja who already has an undergrad degree under his belt. As a researcher, he aims to explore the mechanisms of infection and immunity.