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UBC iGEM 2010
Our team is composed of 9 undergraduate students, 2 graduate advisors and 3 faculty advisors. We are a diverse team from various disciplines including Pharmacology, Life Sciences, Physiology, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Materials Engineering, Engineering Physics and Computer Science. This page describes each team member and their contributions! If you'd like to see our license, visit our official team profile.
Feel free to say hi if you bump into us at Jamboree! Or send us an email at ubcigem@gmail.com!
Faculty Advisors
Eric Lagally:
Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering
Joanne Fox:
Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory Instructor
Leonard Foster:
Associate Professor in Biochemistry & Molecular BiologyGraduate Student Advisors
Alina Chan:
PhD candidate in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Rafael Saer:
PhD candidate in Microbiology and Immunology.iGEM Team Members
Emily Chang:
Major in Pharmacology.
Eric Finlay:
Major in Engineering Physics.
Jason Gao:
Major in Materials Engineering.
Kevin Yang:
Major in Physiology.
Marianne Park:
Major in General Sciences.
Melody Wang:
Major in Microbiology and Immunology.
Phillip Chu:
Major in Chemical and Biological Engineering.
Shing Hei Zhan:
BSc Genetics. Recently joined the BC Genome Sciences Centre as a computational biologist. Formerly a bioinformatician and evolutionary biologist at the Rieseberg Lab and Otto Lab at the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre.
Vicki Ma:
Major in General Sciences.2009 iGEM Students-turned-Mentors
Calvin Chan:
Major in Chemical and Biological Engineering
Charles Howes:
Bioinformatician in the Hallam Lab at UBC, BSc Computer Science, BSc Biotechnology.
Eric Ma:
BSc Integrated Sciences (Microbiology, Biochemistry & Cancer Biology); Soon-to-be Voigt lab research assistant come November!UBC iGEM Words of Wisdom
You can't optimize what you don't have - Eric L.
Do what makes you happy, and everything else will follow - Eric L.
My motto: To give more of yourself than you take away. - Alina
UBC iGEM Wall of Quotes
The only lesson I've learnt so far is "I have to do it again." - Phillip
iGEM: New and interesting ways to fail. - Eric L.
I know it's nice out, but make sure you wear your pants. - Eric F.
Are they easy to contaminate? Oh, sorry, I'm Rafael by the way. - Rafael
Alina: So one PCR product was twice the size of the other and you ran both in the same PCR? Why?
Phillip: It was Phusion. I thought it was magic!
Eric F.: (on September 22) It feels like Jamboree is next week.
Alina: It's not.
I've got a few drafts, but you don't want to see it. It's mostly swear words and stuff. - Eric F.
People who don't know what synthetic biology is are at least 10 smoots away from commenting on its applications and ethics. - Alina
Alina: Maybe we should ask Red Bull for sponsorship.
Eric L.: That could be part of our human practices project-investigating which energy drink is the best.
Alina: That could be part of our gold medal achievements too-it'll help ALL of the iGEM teams.
(After 4 months of failing to obtain a S. aureus phage from another lab) I guess we should have tried a soil sample from outside the building? - Charles
So much hair... - Eric F.
If the curve looks bad, we're not doing it again. - Eric F.
(One team meeting in June 2010)Who is Steve Jones? - Alina
(September 2010) Who is this Elf you speak of? - Alina
(5 minutes later) Who is this Road Warrior you speak of? - Alina
What are we talking about? Suddenly I just hear all these keywords. - Vicki
(On Shakespeare and biofilms) Out, damn'd spot! out, I say! - Alina
(On Jamboree) Just wait until the UBC people meet the Albertans. There's going to be trouble! - Rafael
We're all nerds here-there's no denying that! - Eric L.
Eric M.: You forgot what the T-shirt looks like?!
Eric L.: She's a busy woman. I can't remember what happened yesterday!
Alina: I can't remember what happened 5 minutes ago!
