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Meet the team

Name:	Gloria Hlongwane
Field of Study:	Microbiology and biotechnology
About Gloria:	Gloria is a super crazy stickler for perfection with a broad sense of humour. She likes organizing all her thoughts and ideas that occur throughout the busy day on paper towels, particularly serviettes. She talks non-stop, that is,every time, all day and every day. She believes that, she is probably the most affable and aloof person she has ever met. If not doing work, she is somewhere doing one of three things; (1)laughing, (2) thinking of what to eat or (3) eating like a horse.

Name:	Natasia Kruger
Field of Study:	Microbiology and biotechnology
About Natasia:	Insert about me

Name:	Bradley Marques
Field of Study:	Information engineering
About Bradley:	As a biomedical engineer, Bradley likes to think of blood flow as an electrical current, and is occasionally known to model people as spheres. He can usually be found whittling the early hours of the morning away banging out an emergent behaviour simulation. His information engineering degree has piqued his interest in pervasive computing, the human-computer interface as well as an active interest in digital arts. When not contemplating his lack of existence after Ray Kurzweils’ singularity, he may found trolling game design forums with the judicious use of smileys.

Name:	Michelle Robinson
Field of Study:	Master's in Molecular Medicine
About Michelle:	After experiencing firsthand the fun and insanity of iGEM as a member of the first-ever Wits iGEM team, Michelle Robinson elected to become a student advisor to the 2011 team. In between working towards her Masters of Science in Medicine Michelle practices her nagging skills and makes sure that the team knows that ‘we only have 62 days, 13 hours, 42 minutes and 4 seconds until the Wiki Freeze!’ The iGEM competition inspired her to stay within synthetic biology and Michelle is currently working on a gene therapy-based project with a synthetic biology twist. When she isn’t slaving in the lab or slave-driving the iGEM team, Michelle pursues some of her other interests such as activism and advocacy - she is involved in various projects that advocate for public and rural health; as well as scientific literacy and the interface between science and the media.

Name:	Laura Millroy
Field of Study:	PhD Molecular Medicine
About Laura:	Laura has a keen interest in synthetic biology and genetic engineering, especially in relation to advances in human health. Her PhD project involves the development of aptamer siRNA chimeras for the treatment of HIV. Beyond lab work and research, Laura spends her time baking, painting and editing iGEM documents! Laura is a student advisor to the team for a second year. She enjoys helping the team to realise their goals while understanding the importance of having fun.

Name:	Robyn Brackin
Field:	Gene Expression and Biophysics
About Robyn:	Robyn has always had a thrist for acquiring scientific knowledge, from her early years when she dissected stamens from the flowers in her mothers garden to later on in life when she acquired degrees in both Molecular Biology and Electrical Engineering. Now working as a Biomedical Engineer she gets to play not only with pipettes, eppies and solutions but also with soft polymers, resistors, wago controllers and really cool microscopes. Robyn is an advisor to team for a second year and enjoys helping the team with imaging on the microscope. Robyn and the team really enjoy seeing flourescently labelled bacteria!

Name:	Dr Raymond Sparrow
Field:	CSIR: Biosciences
About Raymond:	Dr Sparrow is from the UK and came over to South Africa in 2005 to the National Laser Centre then transferred to Biosciences in 2007. He is currently the Human Capital Development Manager for the Synthetic Biology ERA. In the UK he conducted research into ultra-fast photosynthetic light harvesting and energy transfer reactions. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire and conducted research at the Lasers For Science Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Daresbury Synchrotron Radiation Source. Then a Higher Scientific Officer at Daresbury on a Vacuum Ultra Violet Beamline. From 1992 - 2005 he was a lecturer in Life Sciences at Bromley College of F&HE.

Lab work: All of the lab work presented on this wiki is the work of the team members.

Modelling: All modelling was completed by Brad, our information engineer.

Logo: Our logo was also designed by Brad

Animation: This task was performed by an animator.

Website: Our site was built by a web developer.

We would like to thank the following people for their invaluable contributions to the project:

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                                             Dr Sparrow is from the UK and came over to South Africa in 2005 to the National Laser Centre then transferred to Biosciences in 2007.  He is currently the Human Capital Development Manager for the Synthetic Biology ERA.
-In the UK He conducted research into ultra-fast photosynthetic light harvesting and energy transfer reactions.
+In the UK he conducted research into ultra-fast photosynthetic light harvesting and energy transfer reactions.
 He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire and conducted research at the Lasers For Science Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Daresbury Synchrotron Radiation Source.  Then a Higher Scientific Officer at Daresbury on a Vacuum Ultra Violet Beamline.
-From 1992 - 2005 He was a lecturer in Life Sciences at Bromley College of F&HE.
+From 1992 - 2005 he was a lecturer in Life Sciences at Bromley College of F&HE.
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