Team:Imperial College London/The Team

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   des[1] = "Nick is a third year biochemist who wants to do a PhD in synthetic biology. He is master of pipetting and is king of XylE assays and data analysis. He used to be in the Cypriot gymnastics team but unfortunately became injured, otherwise he'd now be a champion athlete and not a Biochemist. ";
   des[1] = "Nick is a third year biochemist who wants to do a PhD in synthetic biology. He is master of pipetting and is king of XylE assays and data analysis. He used to be in the Cypriot gymnastics team but unfortunately became injured, otherwise he'd now be a champion athlete and not a Biochemist. ";
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   des[2] = "Kirill is just about to start a Master’s in Systems Biology and is our Bioinformatics guru! As a member of the vectors team, he spent hours cloning things that didn’t want to clone...He's had the most life experience of all of us and consequently knows everything... he's russian and is trained in the martial arts so watch out!";
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   des[2] = "Kirill is just about to start a Master’s in Systems Biology and is our Bioinformatics guru! As a member of the vectors team, he spent hours cloning things that didn’t want to clone... He's had the most life experience of all of us and consequently knows everything... he's russian and is trained in the martial arts so watch out!";
   des[3] = "As a third year biologist, Florian’s lab skills were put to good use assembling and testing the surface protein. His knowledge of parasitic diseases is second to none and has become a schistosoma expert in the last few months!";
   des[3] = "As a third year biologist, Florian’s lab skills were put to good use assembling and testing the surface protein. His knowledge of parasitic diseases is second to none and has become a schistosoma expert in the last few months!";
   des[4] = "Piotr is an absolute legend when it comes to modelling biological systems. He’s a third year bioengineer who likes to cycle the length of the Thames before coming into uni. He is a sweet talking and smooth moving on the dance floor devil - you have to check out this guy's moves!";
   des[4] = "Piotr is an absolute legend when it comes to modelling biological systems. He’s a third year bioengineer who likes to cycle the length of the Thames before coming into uni. He is a sweet talking and smooth moving on the dance floor devil - you have to check out this guy's moves!";
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   des[9] = "Having done 3 years of biochemistry, Maddie has just started a course in Business Management. As one of the more creative members of the team, she designed our logo and edited videos. She also put in a billion lab hours to ensure all XylE constructs were built - they were.";
   des[9] = "Having done 3 years of biochemistry, Maddie has just started a course in Business Management. As one of the more creative members of the team, she designed our logo and edited videos. She also put in a billion lab hours to ensure all XylE constructs were built - they were.";
   des[10] = "Anita is a third year bioengineer. She has formed half of the modelling team and mixes up her time with wiki editing. She is most excited to shop for clothes and Ugg boots in Boston!";
   des[10] = "Anita is a third year bioengineer. She has formed half of the modelling team and mixes up her time with wiki editing. She is most excited to shop for clothes and Ugg boots in Boston!";
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   des[11] = "A distinguished enginer who gets a kick out of modelling and differential equations. He's always pushing the engineering side of synthetic biology and knows exactly what experiments and models we need to get done.";
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   des[11] = "A distinguished enginer who gets a kick out of modelling and differential equations. He's always pushing the engineering side of synthetic biology and knows exactly what experiments and models we need to get done. We're really grateful for all his enthusiasm and support during the course of our project.";
   des[12] = "A straight-talking advisor who knows what the team need to hear and somehow always manages to kickstart us into action. His suggestions have made a huge difference to our project, and we're really grateful for all his guidance. He knew right from the start how to get us united as a team and really pushed us to do the best that we could.";
   des[12] = "A straight-talking advisor who knows what the team need to hear and somehow always manages to kickstart us into action. His suggestions have made a huge difference to our project, and we're really grateful for all his guidance. He knew right from the start how to get us united as a team and really pushed us to do the best that we could.";
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   des[13] = "Always happy to discuss horrific modelling equations without a second thought.";
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   des[13] = "Always happy to discuss horrific modelling equations without a second thought. We don't know where we'd be without him!";
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   des[14] = "Tom always knows what's going on in the synthetic biology world and has perfected the art of making synbio cool.";
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   des[14] = "Tom always knows what's going on in the synthetic biology world and has perfected the art of making synbio cool. We can't thank him enough for all his help with the project.";
   des[15] = "Our forever optimistic supervisor has just completed his first year of a PhD in Synthetic Biology. We'll never know where he gets all his energy from (probably drinking a few litres of coffee every day helps), but lab would never be the same without him singing, dancing, telling jokes and generally trying to keep us smiling! Chris has never given up on us and somehow manages to keep us going no matter how tired we might be.";
   des[15] = "Our forever optimistic supervisor has just completed his first year of a PhD in Synthetic Biology. We'll never know where he gets all his energy from (probably drinking a few litres of coffee every day helps), but lab would never be the same without him singing, dancing, telling jokes and generally trying to keep us smiling! Chris has never given up on us and somehow manages to keep us going no matter how tired we might be.";
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   des[16] = "Credited with getting the team together in the first place, and is always there for us, whatever questions we might have. He has given us some really useful advice and really encouraged us to run the school workshops.";
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   des[16] = "Credited with getting the team together in the first place, Geoff has been there for us from the very beginning, whatever crazy questions we might have. He has given us some very useful advice and really encouraged us to run the school workshops.";
   des[17] = "Kirsten has been really supportive to us during our project. We really hope she knows how much we appreciate all her help and wish she could have come to the Jamboree!";
   des[17] = "Kirsten has been really supportive to us during our project. We really hope she knows how much we appreciate all her help and wish she could have come to the Jamboree!";
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Revision as of 03:26, 28 October 2010

The Team
Welcome to our team page! So you've read about our project, but who are the people behind it? We're an interdisciplinary team made up of Biologists, Biochemists and Bioengineers. Here you'll find a little bit of information about each of us...
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