The 2011 iGEM team from the University of Queensland consists of six undergraduates based at the School of Biomedical Sciences. We worked mainly in the Thomas and Simmons labs.
Our team comes from a diverse range of fields, including Biotechnology, Biomedical Science and Physics. We are all third year students with differing levels of laboratory experience who wanted to expand our skills and explore the exciting new field of synthetic biology! UQ has only participated in iGEM once before, so the team and our supervisors were all learning as we went along. Nevertheless, we feel like we accomplished a lot this year and hope that future UQ teams will be able to continue our work.
Students
Aakash Arora
Third year
Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences
Majoring in Neurobiology and Developmental Science
Akash Boda
Third year
Bachelor of Biotechnology
Majoring in Bioinformatics
Ann Bui
Third year
Bachelor of Science
Majoring in Physics
Rhianna Knable
Third year
Bachelor of Biotechnology
Majoring in Molecular Biotechnology
Hyun Jae Lee
Third year
Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences
Majoring in Neuroscience
Josh Li
Third year
Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences
Majoring in Human Genetics and Biomedical Science
Supervisors
Ricky Chen
Primary contact for the Team.
Lives in [http://www.uq.edu.au/sbms/ School of Biomedical Sciences].
Wally Thomas
Knows his sequences.
Head of [http://www.uq.edu.au/sbms/ School of Biomedical Sciences].
Kelly Matthews
Knows how to organise stuff.
From the [http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/ Teaching and Educational Development Institute].
Phil Long
Knows his stuff.
Director of [http://ceit.uq.edu.au/ Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology]
Georgia Kafer
Knows what to do in the lab.
Lives in [http://www.uq.edu.au/sbms/ School of Biomedical Sciences].
David Simmons
Can unlock the door to his lab with surprising ease.
Lives in [http://www.uq.edu.au/sbms/ School of Biomedical Sciences].