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			Full Name: Marta Bereska
			Aliases: The Sports Coordinator
			Code Name: The Headmistress
			Occupation: Immunologist
			Gender: Female		Date of Birth: 18/10/87
			Weight: 53kg		Blood Type: 0 Rh-
			Height: 165cm		Handedness: Right
			Hair Colour: Depends on season, currently honey blond		Nationality: Eastern Polish
			Eye Colour: Grey / Green		Alignment: Catholic

Appearance: Smiling and non-intimidating :P

  Psych. Profile: Very funny despite what team says! Intelligent despite the appearance, with many deep thoughts - but they can't be seen, as
                           they are deep, right? Extremely logical mind... excellent primer designer. Perfect in remembering books titles, authors and plot...
                           Crazy about sport, really! And generally good material for wife, despite lack of cooking skills. What would the Team do
                           without me??!!!

Personal History: More keen to look forward than behind; currently action takes place in Eastern Poland, Warsaw, Scotland and recently
Switzerland.

Modus Operandi: A very hungry caterpillar...

  Witness Comments: The handsome one is Kirk, Marta, and it's Spock, not Spooky.
                                   Marta, oh how I appreciate your witty, intelligent, philosophical insights. How do you show sarcasm in text?
                                   Use the sarcasm button. What? Your keyboard doesn't have one? Lame...
                                   Barbecue or Tai-chicken?
                                   Marta, how will you choose between Johnny Depp and Gilbert?
                                   Half of my reason to come into work every day.

Greatest Obsessions: Walking always on the right-hand side of other person, unless there is somebody on my both sides

Annoying Quirks: Spooky five!!

Superpower: Control over electromagnetic spectrum

Favourite Sport: Volleyball!!

Favourite Football Team: David Beckham's :)

Favourite Phrase: It wasn't me, I swear!

Favourite Books: 'LoTR' by You Know Who, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by G.G. Marquez, 'The Bad Girl' by Mario Vargas Llosa,
'The Catcher in the Rye' by J. D. Salinger

Favourite Films: Finding Neverland, What Dreams May Come, Chocolate, Seven,

Items to take to desert island: Johnny Depp :D

Attitude towards Johnny Depp: Neverending love and hopeless eternal devotion

Most hated singer / song: Lady Gaga

Tea?: Lady Gray!

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			Full Name: Matthew James Coombes
			Aliases: Coombesie, Gessler, Monk, Rain Man, Loki, Kiwi
			Code Name: The Artist
			Occupation: Designer (Product, Furniture, Public Engagement, Speculative), Design Researcher, Artist, ...
			Gender: Male		Date of Birth: 1978
			Weight: Unknown		Blood Type: Unknown
			Height: 185cm (6'1)		Handedness: Right
			Hair Colour: Brown		Nationality: Kiwi and British
			Eye Colour: Blue		Alignment: Off centre

Appearance: In a book

Psych. Profile: Dubious

Personal History: The stories I could tell :)

Modus Operandi: Psychological

  Witness Comments: Five-dimensional modelling. Five-dimensional modelling. Five-dimensional modelling.
                                   Apparently would benefit from having an Eastern-Polish wife (that isn't Marta).
                                   The majority of the reason not to.
                                   Who ate all the muffins??

Greatest Obsessions: Understanding, pushing buttons, chocolate

Annoying Quirks: Why?

Superpower: Changing people's visual perceptions, apparently

Favourite Sport: Squash, volleyball, rugby, tennis, capoeira, Argentine tango (if you can call that a sport)((Yeah, 'cause that gives me another
one to claim))

Favourite Football Team: N/A

Favourite Phrase: 'Indeed', 'Such is life'

Favourite Books: Immortality, Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Trial, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Norwegian Wood, ...

Favourite Films: Delicatessen, Princess Bride, Magnolia, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Leaving Las Vegas, Fight Club, ...

Items to take to desert island: Unknown

Attitude towards Johnny Depp: Good actor (Marta, how did you manage to get this in here?)

Most hated singer / song: Hate is a strong word, I tend not to use it

Tea?: No thanks

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			Full Name: Hannah Patricia Fraser
			Aliases: Tea Mistress
			Code Name: The Terminator
			Occupation: Chemical Engineer
			Gender: Female		Date of Birth: February 9, 1990
			Weight: 60.5kg		Blood Type: Unknown
			Height: 5ft 7in		Handedness: Right
			Hair Colour: Blonde		Nationality: Scottish-American
			Eye Colour: Like the sea after a storm		Alignment: Perfect

Appearance: Wide-eyed and worried (usually about being tickled)

Psych. Profile: Paranoid

Personal History: Cambridge - Virginia - Edinburgh/New York. Does that make me Scottish?!

Modus Operandi: Be in competition always, but don't tell your opponent that you are in competition until you win!

  Witness Comments: Hannah, don't worry - you're *irreplaceable*.
                                   ...that is, until we find another female American engineer who likes Harry Potter and is ridiculously ticklish...
                                   Can bruise when she's mad...or thinks she's going to be tickled...
                                   She's also the other half.
                                   All hail the conqueror of Arthur's Seat. Hurrah!

Greatest Obsessions: Stopping people from tickling me...or possibly Harry Potter!

Annoying Quirks: Defensiveness

Superpower: Shapeshifter

Favourite Sport: Quidditch

Favourite Football Team: Is this real football or American football?

Favourite Phrase: All who wander are not lost - J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings

Favourite Books: See Maria's

Favourite Films: How to choose?!

Items to take to desert island: A boat

Attitude towards Johnny Depp: Really Marta?!

Most hated singer / song: Will's iPod

Tea?: Anyone?

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			Full Name: Sarah Hunt
			Aliases: Sizzle, Saratical
			Code Name: The Ghost
			Occupation: Unknown
			Gender: Female		Date of Birth: 24/12/88
			Weight: Unknown		Blood Type: Red
			Height: Unknown		Handedness: Right (left to eat)
			Hair Colour: Brunette		Nationality: Scottish
			Eye Colour: Green / brown		Alignment: Shambles

Appearance: Guides your sleigh at night...!

Psych. Profile: Unknown

Personal History: Unknown

Modus Operandi: Unknown

Witness Comments: Judging by the rest of the page, she's slightly secretive...

Greatest Obsessions: Speed (as in going fast... don't want to start any rumours)

Annoying Quirks: I had a skiing accident & now my neck clicks... it's pretty horrible. Apologies in advance

Superpower: Telepathy

Favourite Sport: Rugby, XC mtb, Skiing

Favourite Football Team: Barcelona...sort of

Favourite Phrase: Aye carumba!, let's bounce

Favourite Books: Not got a favourite - currently reading 'the loop' by Nicholas Evans. Don't read it, it's rubbish

Favourite Films: Shutter Island, The Pianist, Fight Club, 21 grams, Memento, Notting Hill, American History X, Clerks

Items to take to desert island: Prison Break box set, unlimited cold Magners ontap, suncream (bliss!)

Attitude towards Johnny Depp: Slightly camp, good actor, beard or no beard?

Most hated singer / song: Lily Allen & that other really annoying one that sings 'murder on the dancefloor'

Tea?: Strong & milky... coffee's better though

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			Full Name: Maria Theresa Wisdom Kowal
			Aliases: Maz, Sir Mazbit III (V), Chairman of the Chalkboard, The Beast of the North East, Beefshank
			Code Name: The Dancer
			Occupation: Biologist (with intention to become biotechnologist)
			Gender: Female		Date of Birth: 03/12/1989
			Weight: 66kg or 10st 6lb		Blood Type: 0-ve
			Height: 5'7.5"		Handedness: Right...or so I would have you believe
			Hair Colour: Naturally brown but currently blonde		Nationality: Northern
			Eye Colour: Deep, soulful brown		Alignment: Will soon be upon us

Appearance: About once every couple of years

Psych. Profile: N/A

Personal History: Deeply embellished

Modus Operandi: Insultingly sarcastic

  Witness Comments: Maria is lovely and brilliant and clever and beautiful and we all wish we could be like her, love the Edinburgh iGEM team.
                                   (wishful thinking)
                                   Xenomorphs. Yes, Maria, xenomorphs. And Harry Potter. And sci-fi in general. Yes, Maria.
                                   This team member agrees with the above comment about Maria's loveliness, brilliance, cleverness, and beauty, but would
                                   like to add her concerns about Maria's relationship with Gilbert.
                                   Woof!!!! (...fuck off, Richard!!)

Greatest Obsessions: Harry Potter, Xenomorphs, Owls, Firefly, Buffy

Annoying Quirks: Don't really let things go...and get quite loud about it...

Superpower: Telekinesis

Favourite Sport: Ballroom Dancing

Favourite Football Team: ...?

Favourite Phrase: So's your face.

Favourite Books: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban, Harry Potter and - well, you can see where this is going... P.S. Also, Shadow of the Wind and Moonseed.

Favourite Films: Do quadrilogies count?

Items to take to desert island: A 2-man aircraft and a pilot

Attitude towards Johnny Depp: Got over that several years ago

Most hated singer / song: Leona Lewis?...Mariah Carey?...Leona Lewis?...Mariah Carey?...nope, can't decide...

Tea?: The way Hannah makes it :)

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			Full Name: Richard Edward Partridge-Hicks
			Aliases: Digger, Rich, Rick, Dick, Dicky, Dicky Baby, Ricky, Ricardo, Partridge, Partreedge, Partridge in a pear tree, Rashide, Rash, Rashmon, Ratch, Rashib, Ratchid, Ratchet, Party Tricks, Party, Peeeeter, Peter Parker, Spiderman, P-T, P-Tricks, Tricks, Trickster, Trickle, Trixie the Pixie, Fifi Trixabell, Brian, Hugh, Charlie, Smiler, Eggbert, Viper, Vyps, Termie, Blink 182, Westley, The Dread Pirate Roberts, Stiff Bastard, James Bond, Mccaw, Aryan, Chief, Georgie, Rickepedia, Ricketon, The Kung Fu Gentleman, The Partridge King
			Code Name: The Toff
			Occupation: Unknown
			Gender: Male		Date of Birth: 13/09/1987
			Weight: ~9.5st / ~63kg		Blood Type: -O
			Height: 5' 11"		Handedness: Unknown
			Hair Colour: Blond		Nationality: British
			Eye Colour: Blue		Alignment: Debatable

Appearance: Preferably mildly overdressed

  Psych. Profile: I am many,
                           We are one.
                           But when many are one,
                           One is many,
                           Even when all are one.

Personal History: Unknown

Modus Operandi: 'Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.'

  Witness Comments: Meow!
                                   Regarding you always saying 'woof!' to pretty much everything...STOP IT!!
                                   Flashheart called, he wants his copyright money...

Greatest Obsessions: Definitely not taking over the world, that's for sure

Annoying Quirks: Quoting Flashheart... apparently

Superpower: Rapidly Accelerated Cellular Regeneration

Favourite Sport: Chin Wu Kung Fu, San Shao Kickboxing, Tai Chi Chuan, Skiing, Archery - preferably Longbow, Fencing, Scuba Diving....
the list goes on

Favourite Football Team: Chelsea... sort of

Favourite Phrase: 'Death is but a doorway, time is but a window, I'll be back' by Vigo the Carpathian from Ghostbusters II, 'How do you feel
about piracy? You'd make an excellent Dread Pirate Roberts' by Westley from The Princess Bride... as does this one

  Favourite Books: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, 'The Lord of the Rings'
                                by Jrr Tolkien, Shōgun by James Clavell, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, 'The Religion' by Tim Willocks, The Raw Shark Texts
                                by Steven Hall... and this one

Favourite Films: ... and this one, unsuprisingly

Items to take to desert island: The below?

Attitude towards Johnny Depp: I want his ship

Most hated singer / song: I see your game!

Tea?: Why thank you for the idea Good Sir. Hannah my Good Lady, may I?

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			Full Name: William Galdric Rostain
			Aliases: Frenchie
			Code Name: The Fool
			Occupation: Biologist (Biotech)
			Gender: Male		Date of Birth: 14/08/89
			Weight: Dunno		Blood Type: O-negative... I think
			Height: 5'6		Handedness: Right
			Hair Colour: Brown		Nationality: British / French
			Eye Colour: Blue		Alignment: Happy hippy

Appearance: Flying lemur

Psych. Profile: Loves flying and eating tasty fruit

Personal History: Born in London to a Geordie mum and French dad. Lived in Paris till I was 18. Since then I study in Edinburgh.

Modus Operandi: Jumps, spreads arms and legs out, glides to next tree, catches on to branch, eats tasty fruit. Then starts again.
Also likes hanging from a branch and resting, wrapped in his cloak.

  Witness Comments: Will's been early two days in a row! Somebody call the authorities, the world's coming to an end!
                                   You kick that ball one more time and it and you are both going through the window.
                                   "Iiii've gotta feelin'! That tonight's gonna be a good niight. That tonight's gonna be a good good ni-i-iight!"
                                   Don't be so scared, it's only Gilbert...

Greatest Obsessions: People with dreadlocks

Annoying Quirks: Always early

Superpower: Teleportation

Favourite Sport: Football

Favourite Football Team: Hibs

Favourite Phrase: Was' crackin

Favourite Books: 1984

Favourite Films: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Items to take to desert island: A hammock

Attitude towards Johnny Depp: Unknown

Most hated singer / song: "Tonight's gonna be a good night...." I'll kill whoever wrote that.. and whoever sings it since it's probably not the
same person

Tea?: Yes, please

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			Full Name: Donal Stewart
			Aliases: None
			Code Name: The Mercenary
			Occupation: Software Engineer
			Gender: Male		Date of Birth: A long, long time ago
			Weight: Unknown		Blood Type: Unknown
			Height: 6'2-ish		Handedness: Depends on weapon
			Hair Colour: Brown with grey bits :)		Nationality: Celt
			Eye Colour: Blueish... probably		Alignment: Unknown

Appearance: Tends to wear black on occasion

Psych. Profile: Unknown

Personal History: Mature student, taking a holiday from the real world

Modus Operandi: Unknown

  Witness Comments: The most badass software engineer you'll see north of the equator (and probably south of it as well.)
                                    I'm still convinced he's just Sephiroth in disguise...
                                    Bloody seagulls.

Greatest Obsessions: Good software engineering practices

Annoying Quirks: Continually evangelising the above

Superpower: Electrokinesis

Favourite Sport: Martial arts (karate, swordfighting)

Favourite Football Team: Uninterested in football

Favourite Phrase: Unknown

Favourite Books: Anathem (Neal Stephenson) or most of David Brin or Iain M. Banks' books

Favourite Films: Kuro-Obi, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Iron Man, ...

Items to take to desert island: Unknown

Attitude towards Johnny Depp: Who?

Most hated singer / song: Unknown

Tea?: Yeah, OK

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			Full Name: John Roger Wilson-Kanamori
			Aliases: Ingwe Helyanwe, Johann Phoenix, PhoenixKnight, Knight of the Football Scores, Dawnbringer, The Last Crusader
			Code Name: The Professor
			Occupation: Informatician, Biomodeller, Customer Assistant
			Gender: Male		Date of Birth: 27th June 1985
			Weight: Unknown		Blood Type: Unknown
			Height: Unknown		Handedness: Mostly right
			Hair Colour: Black with touches of copper		Nationality: Anglo-Japanese
			Eye Colour: An expressive dark brown tinged with what he hopes is intelligence		Alignment: Wondering if he's still Lawful or Neutral Good

Appearance: Not much to meet the eye.

Psych. Profile: Quiet and shy, stubborn and single-minded, perfectionist and romanticist.

Personal History: Born in England, grew up in Japan, crossed over to Scotland for university. Self-taught through the latter years of his
education, which he uses to excuse the worst of his personality quirks.

Modus Operandi: Intellectual loner with a sweet tooth and a penchant for bumbling attempts to try to help others. Often found in the dry lab
either modelling, working on the wiki, or searching for something for somebody.

Witness Comments: Adorable.
Needs to stop being such a loser...or needs to stop calling himself one.

Greatest Obsessions: Trying (and failing) to ensure that the Tesco produce shelves are perfectly filled over the weekend, editing code and text
to ensure that they conform to his particular standards of elegance

Annoying Quirks: Lots of self-derogation and a lack of confidence, a cheeky side that makes itself known ever so often

Superpower: The ability to control atomic vibration and thus thermodynamic temperature.

Favourite Sport: Baseball, with football a close second.

Favourite Football Team: The Samurai Blue

Favourite Phrase: When campaigning, be swift as the wind; in leisurely march, majestic as the forest; in raiding and plundering, like fire;
in standing, firm as the mountains. As unfathomable as the clouds, move like a thunderbolt. (Sun Tzu)

Favourite Books: Musashi (Eiji Yoshikawa), Shogun (James Clavell), Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkein), Red Storm Rising (Tom Clancy)...

Favourite Films: Five Centimetres per Second

Items to take to desert island: A pair of wings to get me back off again!

Attitude towards Johnny Depp: My attitude would be irrelevant

Most hated singer / song: The only music that I tend to dislike is gangster rap

Tea?: None of this British stuff, thanks, Japanese green tea all the way!