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Team:British Columbia/Team
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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.
Feel free to say Hi! if you bump into us at Jamboree!
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.iGEM Team Members
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) I guess we should have tried a soil sample from outside the building? - Charles
