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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 Biology

Graduate 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 Zhan: Major in Genetics. Currently a bioinformatician and evolutionary biologist at 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

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