Team:BU Wellesley Software/Team
From 2011.igem.org
Computational Team
Chenkai Liu | Boston University '13Chenkai is currently a junior at Boston University majoring in Computer Science. He has a passion for developing iPhone Apps and putting them up on the App Store. On his spare time, he loves to play pool and Ping Pong. He is planning on studying abroad in Auckland in the Spring. |
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Craig LaBoda | Boston University '11
Craig graduated from Boston University last semester with a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering. As a 2010 Lutchen Fellow at BU, Craig studied the use of DNA microarrays for microfluidic disease diagnosis, as well as the capturing and organization of DNA origami. This fall he will enter Duke University’s Electrical Engineering PhD program where he will study DNA self-assembly in Professor Chris Dwyer’s Self-Assembled Systems Group. |
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Michael Lintz | Olin College '11Mikey is awesomesauce |
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Consuelo Valdes | Wellesley College '11
Consuelo is working full time at the Wellesley College Human-Computer Interaction Lab as a research fellow. She is currently working on Microsoft Surface applications and iPhone applications. |
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Heidi Wang | Wellesley College '12Heidi is currently a senior majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Economics. Her interests span across multiple disciplines including Computer Science, Art/Design, Social Behavior, and Education. For the past year, she has been working in the Human Computer Interaction lab at Wellesley college on G-nome Surfer 2.0, G-nome Surfer Pro, and GreenTouch. |
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Taili Feng | Wellesley College '13
Taili is a junior at Wellesley College, majoring in Computer Science. She is super excited for the opportunity to combine Human-Computer Interaction concepts with Synthetic Biology to create new software designed to aid research in those areas. |
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Janoo Fernandes | Boston University '13Janoo is awesomesauce. |
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Michelle Ferreirae | Wellesley College '13Michelle is awesomesauce |
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Jenhan Tao | UC Berkeley '13Jenhan is awesomesauce |
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Kelsey Tempel | Wellesley College '13Kelsey is a junior Computer Science major at Wellesley College currently on-leave for a semester to study at King’s College London. Summer 2011 was Kelsey’s first summer in the Human-Computer Interaction lab and she worked on the Primer Designer for G-nome Surfer Pro and Green Touch. She looks forward to seeing how the projects she worked on can improve user experience. |
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Kathy Liu | Wellesley College '13Kathy is awesomesauce |
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Casey Grote | Wellesley College '14Casey is awesomesauce |
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Alex Pan | Framingham High School '12Alex is awesomesauce |
Advisers and Mentors
Douglas Densmore | Boston UniversityDoug is the Richard and Minda Reidy Family Career Development Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. His research focuses on the development of tools for the Specification, Design, and Assembly of Synthetic Biological Systems. These tools and methodologies borrow techniques from embedded system design and electronic design automation. He led the award winning UC Berkeley Software iGEM teams in 2008 and 2009 . He is currently remodeling his "new" 1880 Victorian home...help!!! |
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Orit Shaer | Wellesley CollegeOrit is awesomesauce. |
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Traci Haddock | Boston UniversityTraci is a postdoctoral research associate in the Densmore laboratory at Boston University. She has been the primary mentor to the wet lab team members this summer and her favorite band is U2. |
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Swapnil Bhatia | Boston UniversitySwapnil is part of the BU-Wellesley mentor quadfecta. His favorite pastime is graph multiplication and his favorite color is indigo. |
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Suma Jaini | Boston UniversitySuma is a 3rd year PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering and a mentor for iGEM wet lab team. Her life is primarily occupied by Mycobacteria and fluorescent proteins! Her favorite past time while she has to wait for the bacteria grow is to watch TV show 'F.R.I.E.N.D.S'. |
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Megan Strait | Tufts UniversityMegan is awesomesauce |
Wet Lab Team
Margaux Canevari | Boston University '11
Margaux recently graduated Boston University with a degree in Biomedical Engineering. In the fall, she will begin pursuing her Masters in Applied Anatomy and Physiology at Boston University and working in the Stepp lab on research involving the rehabilitation of patients with disordered sensorimotor function. Her previous research includes neural auditory and neural visual studies. She was very excited to change gears for a bit and work on a synthetic biology project and expand her horizons. |
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Shannon Harrington | Suffolk University '15Description of you! |
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Kyle Jones | Boston University '13Kyle will be a junior this fall studying Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. This summer he was awarded the Dean Lutchen Fellowship to work on the iGEM team. In the fall he will be studying abroad at Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland. Kyle is also a member of the Boston University Men's Varsity Crew team and enjoys doing community service. |
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Evelyn Orozco | Boston University '12Description of you! |
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Alberto Purwada | Boston University '13Description of you! |
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Vanessa Yanez | Boston University '12Description of you! |