Team:Cambridge/Team

If you would like to contact the Cambridge iGEM 2011 team, please email us at cambridgeigem2011@gmail.com or find us on [http://twitter.com/#!/Cam_iGEM_2011 Twitter].

Our core team was made of 9 Cambridge University undergraduates from a wide range of courses. There were 4 biologists, three engineers, one physicist and one mathematician. While every member of the group broadened their knowledge, our different areas of expertise allowed us to simultaneously approach problems from many angles.

We were advised by several other members of the university, both professors and PhD students, who provided technical assistance and insight. They all did a fantastic job of providing positive feedback, without guiding the direction of our project.

We were also aided by three students from the Royal College of Art (RCA) who were able to provide us with a completely different perspective on our work. Their advice and creative input was invaluable to our project.

From left to right: Haydn, Jonathan, Marta, Heather, Katy, Cat, Matt, Joe and Felix

Cambridge Students

Marta Bozek

Marta

Just finished the second year of Natural Sciences course, planning to study Genetics from October.

Xin Gao / Heather

Heather

I just finished my second year engineering course, still haven't quite decided which area of engineering to specialize in. In the past one and half week, I enjoyed roaming the unfamiliar territory of synthetic biology despite the steep learning curve.

Joe Harvey

Joe

Soon-to-be third year maths student intent on wheedling his way into the world of biology.

Matthew Jones

Matt

Biological Natural Sciences - I've just finished my second year of Natural Sciences here at Cambridge University. So far I have studied modules in Cell Biology, Evolution and Behaviour, Plant Physiology, Animal Physiology, Neurobiology and Developmental Biology. iGEM has so far introduced me to lots of Biology that is outside of the courses I have studied in the last couple of years and I have really enjoyed stepping outside of my comfort zone and building a working 8x8 LED matrix my first Arduino project and getting stuck into some computer programming with the Microsoft Research team. I have high hopes for our team this summer.

Haydn King

Haydn

I have just finished second year Engineering at the University, and am likely to be studying Information and Computer Engineering next year. Having no biological training since GCSE, I am very interested to learn more about the subject during the course of this project. I am particularly interested in the parallels which can be drawn between computation 'in silico' and that which can be done within a living cell.

I come from a small village called Brechfa near Carmarthen in south west Wales, and am a fluent Welsh speaker.

Catriona McMurran

Cat

Soon to be a third year Biochemist, currently learning more than anyone needs to know about what a squid looks like on the inside. Thanks to iGEM I have become mildly obsessed with the number of followers on the team's Twitter feed, and have read so much about reflectins I can pull references out of my ears. Having studied mostly pure biology in my degree so far, I'm finding the engineering-based approach of synthetic biology really interesting.

Jonathan Very (Big Guns)

Jonathan

Biologist (& Keeper of the Diary)

Katy Wei

Katy

The lone physicist of the group, whose only biological knowledge stems from the GCSE era...but is nonetheless enthusiastic to learn more this summer!

Felix Zhou

Felix

An excitable engineer who 'boos'

RCA Advisers

Veronica Ranner

Veronica

RCA

Gerrit Kaiser

RCA

Ai Hasegawa

RCA

Advisers

Jim Haseloff

Jim

Jim Ajioka

Jim

Gos Micklem

Gos

Fernan Federici

Fernan

Paul Grant

Paul

PJ Steiner

PJ

James Brown

James