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Introduction
Our Project
Tools
- Gibson Assembly
- MITOMI
Notebook
- Protocols
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
Considerations
- Human Practices
- Safety
Acknowledgements
- Sponsors
- Partners

Our Team

Alongside chip alignment and cloning procedures, we are currently learning to pose for group pictures:

On July 6 another student, Alessandro, will join our team at EPFL to work on the project this summer.

The undergrads

Alessandro

a.k.a the PCR ninja

Country: Bari, Italy

Studies: Biotechnology

Major Goal in Life: wants to break the Guinness World Record for tractor-pulling. His current record stands at 355 yards and 8 inches.

Hobby: numismatics, philately

Specialization: Acclimatizing to the swiss way of life (like lunch at 12:00) and understanding EPFL geography

Clara

a.k.a the clean room ninja

Country: Bucharest, Romania

Studies: Microtechnology

Major Goal in Life: radio-controlled mice

Hobby: wizardry and the dark arts

Specialization: Lives in the cleanroom and actually undestands microfluidics

Douglas

a.k.a the coding ninja

Country: Chablais, Switzerland

Studies: Materials Science

Major Goal in Life: terraforming Pluto and making it the Solar System's largest yellow cucumber exporter

Hobby: watching re-runs of Coronation Street in Indonesian

Specialization: Fights with rocks, can do a PCR 3 times without getting angry

Lilia

a.k.a the MITOMI ninja

Country: Saratov, Russia

Studies: Bioengineering

Major Goal in Life: finding a megalodon tooth whilst pruning her prize-winning roses

Hobby: teaching her pet bear to make the perfect cappuccino drink

Specialization: Queen of competent cells and medium preparation, trapper of molecular interactions between DNA and TetR

Nadine

a.k.a the primer design ninja

Country: Lausanne, Switzerland

Studies: Life Sciences

Major Goal in Life: travelling back in time and marrying Atilla the Hun

Hobby: fashion design, especially menswear for Swiss loggers and other alpine outdoorsmen

Specialization: takes care of the twitter account

Vincent

a.k.a the cloning ninja

Country: Dallas, Texas

Studies: Computational and Applied Mathematics

Major Goal in Life: reaching his third consecutive highlining-with-stilts world championship

Hobby: improving the explosive impact of menthos-in-coke devices

Specialization: Gibson master, likes making cell cultures during the weekends

The teaching assistants

Henrike

Country: Germany

Major Goal in Life: combining beer and coffee into a new drink called Beefee. Coffeer was already taken.

Hobby: co-owner of the world's largest lemur population outside of Madagascar; she is currently involved in a massive project to teach her lemurs how to swing dance.

Matt

Country: Florida, USA

Major Goal in Life: play Beethoven's Fifth using the didjeridoo... with his nostrils

Hobby: studying the effects of electrotrance music on the Icelandic walrus populations. No conclusions yet.

Alina

Country: Ukraine

Major Goal in Life: ghost-riding-tha-whip in her 1960's Thunderbird

Hobby: breeding a new artificial Minotaur for the disciplining of unruly children

Irina

Country: Switzerland Spends her days behind a computer but we still like her! Gibson assembly has ne secrets for her.

Team:EPF-Lausanne/TheTeam