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Team:EPF-Lausanne/TheTeam
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Our Team
In the early days, alongside chip alignment and cloning procedures, we tried to pose for some group pictures:
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The undergrads
Alessandro
a.k.a the PCR ninja
Origin of Replication: 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
Origin of Replication : 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
Origin of Replication: 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, rides the bull like a bowss.
Lilia
a.k.a the MITOMI ninja
Origin of Replication: 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
Origin of Replication: 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, specialized in non-working Gibson assemblies
Vincent
a.k.a the cloning ninja
Origin of Replication: 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
Origin of Replication: Germany
Lab: Laboratory of Biological Network Characterization
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.
Zodiac: Woodpecker
Matt
Origin of Replication: Florida, USA
Lab: Laboratory of Biological Network Characterization
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.
Zodiac: Marmot
Alina
Origin of Replication: Ukraine
Lab: Lab of Systems Biology and Genetics
Major Goal in Life: Ghost-riding-the-whip in her 1960's Thunderbird with the subwoofers blaring out the opening sections of The Nutcracker
Hobby: breeding a new artificial Minotaur for the disciplining of unruly children
Zodiac: Sea cucumber
Irina
Lab: Lab of Systems Biology and Genetics
Origin of Replication: Switzerland
Major Goal in Life: do the Kon-Tiki thing on Lake Geneva
Hobby: prominent member of Bolshoi ballet, substitute member of Snoop Dogg's dance crew
Zodiac: Barn owl
The advisors
Bart Deplancke
Lab: Director of the Lab for Systems Biology and Genetics
Major Goal in Life: playing the role of the Ewok leader in the upcoming 3D Star Wars release
Hobby: Squaring the circle
Sebastian Maerkl
Lab: Director of the Lab for Biological Network Characterization
Major Goal in Life: solving the murder on the Orient Express. Agatha Christie got it wrong.
Hobby: producing lip dubs of 80's pop songs
