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== The teaching assistants == | == The teaching assistants == | ||
Revision as of 12:38, 7 September 2011
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.
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The undergrads
Alessandro
a.k.a the PCR slave
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 slave
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 slave
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 slave
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 slave
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
Solange
Country: Lausanne, Switzerland
Studies: Biotechnology
Major Goal in Life: memorizing pi to the 6578888993 digit
Hobby: improving her Formula 1 racing abilities; getting that 360 reverse dunk working
Specialization: has already spent one summer in the lab, so she knows everything
Vincent
a.k.a the cloning slave
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 Bad luck for her, her desk is next to ours. As a consequence, she answers 99% of our silly questions, but always with a smile!
Matt
Country: Florida, USA Along microfluidics chips alignment, he's also a very good "chef pâtissier".
Alina
Country: Ukraine Chief of MITOMI and competent cells, always very helpful.
Irina
Country: Switzerland Spends her days behind a computer but we still like her! Gibson assembly has ne secrets for her.
The advisors
