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+ | <h1>Jenny Cheng</h1> | ||
+ | <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/b/ba/Jenny.jpg" style="max-width:250px; margin-right:10px;"/> | ||
+ | is a recent graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, currently working at Ginkgo Bioworks. She received her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in June of 2011. Jenny decided to | ||
+ | join the iGEM team to gain further experience in synthetic biology after becoming interested in the | ||
+ | subject while working as an undergraduate researcher under Peter Carr. She looks forward to being able to continue to | ||
+ | combine her solid computer science skills with her lab experience to solve | ||
+ | biological problems through iGEM. In her free time, Jenny enjoys | ||
+ | video game design and animation and has worked in the Singapore- | ||
+ | MIT GAMBIT Game Lab where she was part of a team that created | ||
+ | the game Phorm. She also likes to travel and is fluent in both English | ||
+ | and Mandarin Chinese. Last summer, she taught computer science | ||
+ | to students in Jerusalem as part of the Middle East | ||
+ | Education through Technology (MEET) Program. | ||
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viola and chamber music with Professor Marcus Thompson. | viola and chamber music with Professor Marcus Thompson. | ||
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<h1>Timothy Lu</h1> | <h1>Timothy Lu</h1> | ||
+ | <img src="http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/%5Cimages%5Cpeople%5CLu_Timothy.jpg" style="max-width:300px;"/> | ||
has a PhD in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering from MIT in 2008. He is currently completing his MD degree in the Harvard/MIT HST program. In addition to other awards, Dr. Lu is the Lemelson-MIT student prize winner in 2008. In his PhD work with James Collins at BU/HHMI, Tim built and modeled artificial memory systems and counters in bacteria, and developed methods for delivering synthetically engineered bacteriophage to infection sites. His research focus is the development of synthetic-biology based solutions for pressing medical and industrial problems, using concepts from electronic circuits and systems design. His current focus is inventing effective treatments for infectious diseases and cancer using synthetic biology. | has a PhD in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering from MIT in 2008. He is currently completing his MD degree in the Harvard/MIT HST program. In addition to other awards, Dr. Lu is the Lemelson-MIT student prize winner in 2008. In his PhD work with James Collins at BU/HHMI, Tim built and modeled artificial memory systems and counters in bacteria, and developed methods for delivering synthetically engineered bacteriophage to infection sites. His research focus is the development of synthetic-biology based solutions for pressing medical and industrial problems, using concepts from electronic circuits and systems design. His current focus is inventing effective treatments for infectious diseases and cancer using synthetic biology. | ||
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<h1>Tom Knight</h1> | <h1>Tom Knight</h1> | ||
+ | <img src="http://ginkgobioworks.com/images/bio-tk.jpg" style="max-width:300px;"/> | ||
is a senior research scientist in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, part of the MIT School of Engineering. Inspired in part by the work of Harold Morowitz, a Yale physicist and biologist, Knight studied biochemistry, genetics, and cellular biology, and set up a biology lab within MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science. In this lab he created the concept of the BioBrick and began creating a library of BioBricks that could be used to build biological computation structures. Today, BioBricks form the basis of the iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) competition. Knight continues to focus on Synthetic Biology at the Knight Laboratory. | is a senior research scientist in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, part of the MIT School of Engineering. Inspired in part by the work of Harold Morowitz, a Yale physicist and biologist, Knight studied biochemistry, genetics, and cellular biology, and set up a biology lab within MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science. In this lab he created the concept of the BioBrick and began creating a library of BioBricks that could be used to build biological computation structures. Today, BioBricks form the basis of the iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) competition. Knight continues to focus on Synthetic Biology at the Knight Laboratory. | ||
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<h1>Roger Kamm</h1> | <h1>Roger Kamm</h1> | ||
+ | <img src="http://meche.mit.edu/people/img/rdkamm.jpg" style="max-width:300px; margin-right:10px"/> | ||
is the Germeshausen Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering and Associate Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. A primary objective of Kamm’s research group has been the application of fundamental concepts in fluid and solid mechanics to better understand essential biological and physiological phenomena. Studies over the past thirty years have addressed issues in the respiratory, ocular and cardiovascular systems. More recently, his attention has focused on two new areas, the molecular mechanisms of cellular force sensation, and the development of new scaffold materials and microfluidic technologies for vascularized engineered tissues. Kamm is a Fellow of the American Institute for Biomedical Engineering and the American Society for Mechanical Engineering. He is the current chair of the US National Committee on Biomechanics and the World Council on Biomechanics, and Director of the Global Enterprise for Micro Mechanics and Molecular Medicine. | is the Germeshausen Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering and Associate Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. A primary objective of Kamm’s research group has been the application of fundamental concepts in fluid and solid mechanics to better understand essential biological and physiological phenomena. Studies over the past thirty years have addressed issues in the respiratory, ocular and cardiovascular systems. More recently, his attention has focused on two new areas, the molecular mechanisms of cellular force sensation, and the development of new scaffold materials and microfluidic technologies for vascularized engineered tissues. Kamm is a Fellow of the American Institute for Biomedical Engineering and the American Society for Mechanical Engineering. He is the current chair of the US National Committee on Biomechanics and the World Council on Biomechanics, and Director of the Global Enterprise for Micro Mechanics and Molecular Medicine. | ||
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<h1>Natalie Kuldell</h1> | <h1>Natalie Kuldell</h1> | ||
+ | <img src="http://web.mit.edu/be/images/kuldell.jpg" style="max-width:300px; margin-right:10px"/> | ||
did her doctoral and post-doctoral work at Harvard Medical School. She develops discovery-based curricula drawn from the current literature to engage undergraduate students in structured, reasonably authentic laboratory experiences. She has also written educational materials to improve scientific communication as it occurs across disciplinary boundaries and as it's taught in undergraduate subjects. Her research examines gene expression in eukaryotic cells, focusing most recently on synthetic biology and redesign of the yeast mitochondria. She serves as Associate Education Director for SynBERC, an NSF-funded research center for Synthetic Biology, and Councilor at Large for the Institute of Biological Engineering. | did her doctoral and post-doctoral work at Harvard Medical School. She develops discovery-based curricula drawn from the current literature to engage undergraduate students in structured, reasonably authentic laboratory experiences. She has also written educational materials to improve scientific communication as it occurs across disciplinary boundaries and as it's taught in undergraduate subjects. Her research examines gene expression in eukaryotic cells, focusing most recently on synthetic biology and redesign of the yeast mitochondria. She serves as Associate Education Director for SynBERC, an NSF-funded research center for Synthetic Biology, and Councilor at Large for the Institute of Biological Engineering. | ||
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<h1>Mark Bathe</h1> | <h1>Mark Bathe</h1> | ||
+ | <img src="http://lcbb.mit.edu/people/portraits/bathe_mark.jpg" style="max-width:200px; margin-right:10px;"/> | ||
joined MIT BE as an assistant professor in January 2009. Mark received his SB (1998), MS (2001), and Ph.D. (2004) in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, with his Ph.D. thesis supervised by Professor Bruce Tidor on computational analysis of proteoglycan and glycosaminoglycan structure and mechanics. During the period 2005-2008 he undertook postdoctoral work as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, first with Professor Erwin Frey at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich Germany on theoretical modeling of cytoskeletal dynamics and then with Professor Marie France Carlier at CNRS in Paris France pursuing related cellular biophysics experiments. He has focused his efforts on multi-scale modeling from protein sequence to structure to spatio-temporal dynamics informed by microscopic imaging experimentation, as part of the highly collaborative Laboratory for Integrative Computational Cell Biology & Biophysics. | joined MIT BE as an assistant professor in January 2009. Mark received his SB (1998), MS (2001), and Ph.D. (2004) in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, with his Ph.D. thesis supervised by Professor Bruce Tidor on computational analysis of proteoglycan and glycosaminoglycan structure and mechanics. During the period 2005-2008 he undertook postdoctoral work as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, first with Professor Erwin Frey at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich Germany on theoretical modeling of cytoskeletal dynamics and then with Professor Marie France Carlier at CNRS in Paris France pursuing related cellular biophysics experiments. He has focused his efforts on multi-scale modeling from protein sequence to structure to spatio-temporal dynamics informed by microscopic imaging experimentation, as part of the highly collaborative Laboratory for Integrative Computational Cell Biology & Biophysics. | ||
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<h1>Peter Andrew Carr</h1> | <h1>Peter Andrew Carr</h1> | ||
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+ | focuses on increasing the scale at which we can engineer organisms, up to entire genomes. Current projects in my lab include: 1) high throughput microfluidic gene and protein synthesis for rapid prototyping of engineered genetic systems; 2) re-engineering the genetic code of microbesproviding plug-and-play capabilities for non-natural amino acids, and constructing "genetic firewalls" to block gene flow to and from of these organisms; 3) error correction methods for de novo synthesized DNA; 4) Control systems and safety standards for engineered organisms. I received my bachelors degree in biochemistry from Harvard College and my Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biophysics from Columbia University. | ||
+ | <p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/lms/www/peoplepages/Peter_Carr.htm">Lab Website</a></p> | ||
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<h1>Rahul Sarpeshkar</h1> | <h1>Rahul Sarpeshkar</h1> | ||
- | <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/5/59/RahulSarpeshkar.jpg" style="max-width: | + | <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/5/59/RahulSarpeshkar.jpg" style="max-width:200px; margin-right:10px;"/> |
obtained his Bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics at MIT. After completing his PhD at Caltech, he joined Bell Labs as a member of technical staff in the department of Biological Computation within its Physics division. Since 1999, he has been on the faculty of MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department where he heads a research group on <a href="http://www.rle.mit.edu/acbs/">Analog Circuits and Biological Systems </a>. His invention of cytomorphic electronics, outlined in his recent book, Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics: Fundamentals, Biomedical Applications, and Bio-inspired Systems, has established an important bridge between electronics and chemistry. This work lays a foundation for a rigorous analog circuits approach to systems biology and synthetic biology. His current research on synthetic biology applies analog circuit techniques to the design, analysis, implementation, and supercomputing chip-based simulation of biochemical networks in E coli and yeast. It has applications in architecting a scalable platform technology and conceptual framework for design that is broadly applicable in all of synthetic biology. It also has specific applications in the treatment of diabetes, antibiotic resistance, and the design of microbial fuel cells. He has received several awards including the NSF Career Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, the Packard Fellows Award and the Indus Technovator Award for his interdisciplinary bioengineering research. | obtained his Bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics at MIT. After completing his PhD at Caltech, he joined Bell Labs as a member of technical staff in the department of Biological Computation within its Physics division. Since 1999, he has been on the faculty of MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department where he heads a research group on <a href="http://www.rle.mit.edu/acbs/">Analog Circuits and Biological Systems </a>. His invention of cytomorphic electronics, outlined in his recent book, Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics: Fundamentals, Biomedical Applications, and Bio-inspired Systems, has established an important bridge between electronics and chemistry. This work lays a foundation for a rigorous analog circuits approach to systems biology and synthetic biology. His current research on synthetic biology applies analog circuit techniques to the design, analysis, implementation, and supercomputing chip-based simulation of biochemical networks in E coli and yeast. It has applications in architecting a scalable platform technology and conceptual framework for design that is broadly applicable in all of synthetic biology. It also has specific applications in the treatment of diabetes, antibiotic resistance, and the design of microbial fuel cells. He has received several awards including the NSF Career Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, the Packard Fellows Award and the Indus Technovator Award for his interdisciplinary bioengineering research. | ||
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<h1>Narendra Maheshri</h1> | <h1>Narendra Maheshri</h1> | ||
+ | <img src="http://web.mit.edu/~narendra/www/people_images/NARENDRAsq.jpg" style="max-width:200px; margin-right:10px;"/> | ||
is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has bachelor’s degrees in both Chemical Engineering and Biology from MIT, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California (UC) Berkeley, where he focused on engineering viral vectors for gene therapy. In his post-doctoral studies at UC San Francisco and Harvard, he became interested in systems’ biology and gene regulation. His current research interests are in understanding the dynamics of gene regulation and gene regulatory networks in single cells using a combined experimental and theoretical approach. | is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has bachelor’s degrees in both Chemical Engineering and Biology from MIT, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California (UC) Berkeley, where he focused on engineering viral vectors for gene therapy. In his post-doctoral studies at UC San Francisco and Harvard, he became interested in systems’ biology and gene regulation. His current research interests are in understanding the dynamics of gene regulation and gene regulatory networks in single cells using a combined experimental and theoretical approach. | ||
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<h1>Jacob Rubens</h1> | <h1>Jacob Rubens</h1> | ||
+ | <img src="http://www.rle.mit.edu/sbg/images/people_rubens1.jpg" style="max-width:200px; margin-right:10px;"/> | ||
is a Ph.D. student in the MIT Microbiology program and a student of Tim Lu in the RLE Synthetic Biology Group. He is interested in developing synthetic biology tools to investigate and exploit the human microbiome for therapeutic purposes as well as optimizing biological circuit engineering methods. Jacob is an alum of the Washington University iGEM team. | is a Ph.D. student in the MIT Microbiology program and a student of Tim Lu in the RLE Synthetic Biology Group. He is interested in developing synthetic biology tools to investigate and exploit the human microbiome for therapeutic purposes as well as optimizing biological circuit engineering methods. Jacob is an alum of the Washington University iGEM team. | ||
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- | <h1> Domitilla Del Vecchio</h1> | + | <h1>Domitilla Del Vecchio</h1> |
- | <img src="http://www.mit.edu/~ddv/ddv2.JPG" style="margin-right:10px;"/> | + | <img src="http://www.mit.edu/~ddv/ddv2.JPG" style="max-width:200px; margin-right:10px;"/> |
is a Keck Career Development Assistant Professor at MIT's department of Mechanical Engineering. | is a Keck Career Development Assistant Professor at MIT's department of Mechanical Engineering. | ||
<p><a href="http://www.mit.edu/~ddv/">Biography</a></p> | <p><a href="http://www.mit.edu/~ddv/">Biography</a></p> | ||
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+ | <h1>Jacquin Niles</h1> | ||
+ | <img src="http://web.mit.edu/be/images/niles.jpg" style="max-width:200px; margin-right:10px;"/> | ||
+ | is a Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT's department of Biological Engineering. | ||
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+ | <p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/be/people/niles.shtml">Biography</a></p> | ||
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+ | <h1>Kristala Jones Prather</h1> | ||
+ | <img src="http://web.mit.edu/prathergroup/images/KrisChemE.png" style="max-width:200px; margin-right:10px"/> | ||
+ | is an associate professor at MIT's department of Chemical Engineering. | ||
+ | <p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/prathergroup/">Biography</a></p> | ||
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+ | <h1>Matthew Adendorff</h1> | ||
+ | <img src="http://scienceandtech.fulbrightonline.org/images/grantee_photos/2010/profilepicadendorffmatthew.jpg"> | ||
+ | is a graduate student at MIT. | ||
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+ | <p><a href="http://scienceandtech.fulbrightonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=386&ml=5&mlt=system&tmpl=component">Biography</a></p> | ||
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+ | <h1>Fahim Farzadfard</h1> | ||
+ | is a graduate student at MIT. | ||
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+ | <p><a href="http://www.rle.mit.edu/sbg/people.shtml">Biography</a><p> | ||
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+ | <h1>Shridhar Jayanthi</h1> | ||
+ | <img src="http://web.mit.edu/ddv/www/pictures/sjayanthi.jpg" style="max-width:200px; margin-right:10px"/> | ||
+ | is a graduate student under Domitilla Del Vecchio. | ||
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+ | <p><a href="http://sitemaker.umich.edu/jayanthi/home">Biography</a><p> | ||
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+ | <h1>Ali Kazerani</h1> | ||
+ | <img src="http://www.microfluidics.uwaterloo.ca/Images/people/Former%20Members/Picture_AliKazerani.jpg"> | ||
+ | is a graduate student at MIT. | ||
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+ | <p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/kazerani/www/WhoAmI/">Biography</a></p> | ||
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+ | <h1>Shawn Finney-Manchester</h1> | ||
+ | <img src="http://web.mit.edu/~narendra/www/leah_images/ShawnSq.jpg" style="max-width:200px; margin-right:10px"/> | ||
+ | is a graduate student under Narendra Maheshri. | ||
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+ | <p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/~narendra/www/Shawn.html">Biography</a></p> | ||
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+ | <h1>Vivek Sivathanu</h1> | ||
+ | <img src="http://media.linkedin.com/mpr/pub/image-oqFceXUzjO0F6gpcetNCeuc7xqmYJg9cV3vTefZSjTuG2_5W/vivek-sivathanu.jpg"> | ||
+ | is a Graduate Research Assistant at MIT. | ||
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+ | <p><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/viveksiva">Biography</a></p> | ||
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<h1>Our Team</h1> | <h1>Our Team</h1> | ||
- | <p>The MIT iGEM team this year is very diverse. We are composed of thirteen motivated students across a wide range of academic backgrounds: from high school student to recent graduate, from Physics to Biology. Below is a video where you can get to meet the individual team members.</p> | + | <p>The MIT iGEM team this year is very diverse. We are composed of thirteen motivated students across a wide range of academic backgrounds: from high school student to recent graduate, from Physics major to Biology major. Below is a video where you can get to meet the individual team members.</p> |
<iframe id="videoiframe" width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/B9L0EuM3pxI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> | <iframe id="videoiframe" width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/B9L0EuM3pxI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:40, 28 October 2011
Jenny Cheng
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/b/ba/Jenny.jpg)
Charles Hsu
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/e/e7/Charles.jpg)
Michelle Dion
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/7/71/MichelleD.jpg)
Divya Arcot
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/4/40/Divya.jpg)
Clara Park
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/3/35/Clara.jpg)
Jonathan Chien
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/5/57/Jonathan.jpg)
Grant Robinson
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/5/53/Grant.jpg)
Tyler Wagner
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/8/8b/Tyler.jpg)
Mariola Szenk
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/4/4e/Mariola.jpg)
Semon Rezchikov
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/9/91/Semon.jpg)
Louis Lamia
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/6/65/Lou.jpg)
Kenneth Hu
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/2/27/Kenneth.jpg)
Tiffany Huang
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/e/e5/MIT_th.jpg)
Ron Weiss
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/7/7b/Weiss.jpg)
Jonathan Babb
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/thumb/e/ea/Jbabb.jpg/571px-Jbabb.jpg)
Deepak Mishra
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/thumb/f/fc/Deepak.jpg/527px-Deepak.jpg)
Linda Griffith
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/c/ca/Griff.jpg)
Timothy Lu
![](http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/%5Cimages%5Cpeople%5CLu_Timothy.jpg)
Tom Knight
![](http://ginkgobioworks.com/images/bio-tk.jpg)
Linda Griffith
heads the Griffith Lab at MIT. She was an Area Head for the Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering Department. She is also the director of the MIT Biotechnology Process Engineering Center as well as a professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT.Roger Kamm
![](http://meche.mit.edu/people/img/rdkamm.jpg)
Natalie Kuldell
![](http://web.mit.edu/be/images/kuldell.jpg)
Mark Bathe
![](http://lcbb.mit.edu/people/portraits/bathe_mark.jpg)
Peter Andrew Carr
Rahul Sarpeshkar
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/5/59/RahulSarpeshkar.jpg)
Narendra Maheshri
![](http://web.mit.edu/~narendra/www/people_images/NARENDRAsq.jpg)
Jacob Rubens
![](http://www.rle.mit.edu/sbg/images/people_rubens1.jpg)
Jordan Whisler
is a second year graduate student in the MIT Mechanical Engineering department. He is a research assistant for Roger Kamm and specializes in using microfluidic techniques to control tissue formation and patterning, specifically with respect to the microvasculature.Allen Lin
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/3/37/AllenLin.jpg)
Domitilla Del Vecchio
Jacquin Niles
![](http://web.mit.edu/be/images/niles.jpg)
Kristala Jones Prather
![](http://web.mit.edu/prathergroup/images/KrisChemE.png)
Our Team
The MIT iGEM team this year is very diverse. We are composed of thirteen motivated students across a wide range of academic backgrounds: from high school student to recent graduate, from Physics major to Biology major. Below is a video where you can get to meet the individual team members.