Team:Bilkent-UNAMBG/Team
Doğuş (aka DnA)
Hobbies: playing basketball, watching lots of movies, roaming in FL Studio to make hip-hop and making amateur-modern art that nobody understands, even me.
Favorite Trilogy:
Movie: Cloud Atlas
Book: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Song: Pursuit of Happiness by Kid Cudi
Favorite Organism: Panthera tigris - Tiger
Most inspiring Person: Myself, ten years from now.
Goal: I want to become an independent person that is free from the chains of society and that engaging in things that make others think about and be inspired.
Why am I an iGEMer ?: For a junior student, iGEM provides an excellent experience. You can see how a project develops and for a summer, you can put some work that teachs you a lot.
Göktuğ
Hobbies: Playing guitar, reading news and playing Battlefield 1.
Favorite Trilogy:
Movie: The Usual Suspects
Book: Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Song: As I Lay Dying - Parallels
Favorite Organism: Canis Lupus - Wolf
Most inspiring Person: Anyone contributed science is inspiring.
Goal: I want to become someone who can help all the people who are in need and make a world that no one suffers.
Why am I an iGEMer ?: iGEM provides a great opportunity for learning project development and team work. Also, being a part of this team in a second year feels awesome.
Ömer
Hobbies: Reading, hiking, basketball, video games and anime.
Favorite Trilogy:
Movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Book: The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
Song: For Reasons Unknown by The Killers
Favorite Organism: Water Bears (Tardigrade)
Most inspiring Person: Yuval Noah Harari
Goal: I want to become a scientist because science is cool. I think science is the closest thing there is to magic in real life. Magic is cool.
Why am I an iGEMer ?: I think iGEM offers a very interactive learning experience. iGEM allows you to plan, execute and improve a project, this is an experience you can’t get everywhere as an undergraduate.
Mehmet
Hobbies: Reading on modern philosophy, researching on the history and theory of film, listening and exploring the progressive and avant-garde music, taking long walks and camping.
Favorite Trilogy:
Movie: The Tree of Life (2011)
Book: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Song: New Heroes by Christian Scott
Favorite Organism: Balaenoptera musculus - Blue Whale
Most inspiring Person: Bertrand Russell
Goal: I want to become a person who can understand the all aspects of M-theory in modern physics.
Why am I an iGEMer ?: iGEM is more than just a laboratory experience, and a huge opportunity for an undergraduate to explore multiple sides of project development.
Nida
Hobbies: anything related to literature, searching about Japanese culture, walking.
Favorite Trilogy:
Movie: Into the Wild
Book: Silas Marner by George Eliot
Song: Nasıl Anlatsam by Hümeyra
Favorite Organism: Phoenicopterus roseus (flamingo)
Most inspiring person: Biruni
Goal: I want to become a scientist because I don’t want to have a boring life and nature is never boring.
Why am I an iGEMer ?: iGEM offers me a great learning environment. It teaches me to do many different things at the same time.
Lilu
Hobbies: playing violin, playing video games, trying to learn new languages, dancing.
Favorite Trilogy:
Movie: Perfect Blue (1997)
Book: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Song: Nina Cried Power by Hozier
Favorite Organism: my cat :D
Most inspiring Person: Hozier
Goal: I want to become lots of things at once, which causes me to fail at all of them ̄ \_(ツ)_/¯
Why am I an iGEMer ?: iGEM provides me a wonderful learning experience that I probably wouldn’t be able to find somewhere else.
Hoşkan
Hobbies: Broadway musicals, Eurovision, dystopian novels, Quidditch, platformer video games, every single thing that is related to Harry Potter and Doctor Who
Favorite Trilogy:
Movie: A Star Is Born (2018)
Book: Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince (2009)
Song: Hair by Lady Gaga
Favorite Organism: S. pombe
Most inspiring Person: Lady Gaga
Goal: I want to become a singer/songwriter, but no worries science can also be my side job.
Why am I an iGEMer ?: Is there a better way to dive into the immense world of synthetic biology?
Deniz
Hobbies: Playing flute, singing, learning new languages, watching anime and reading manga
Favorite Trilogy:
Movie: Howl’s Moving Castle
Book: La Ligne Noire by Jean-Christophe Grange
Song: Screaming by Dimash Kudaibergen
Favorite Organism: Xenopus laevis
Most inspiring Person: Dimash Kudaibergen
Goal: I want to become a person who can inspire others.
Why am I an iGEMer ?: It is the most enjoyable way to start your scientific journey.
Ahmet
Hobbies: Playing basketball, solving sudoku, dancing
Favorite Trilogy:
Movie: Kaybedenler Kulübü
Book: Robinson Crusoe
Song: Clubbed to Death
Favorite Organism: Spheniscidae (Penguin)
Most inspiring Person: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Goal: I want to become a molecular biolog who can make understanding of life as simple as an abacus.
Why am I an iGEMer ?: I really like math and iGEM is an opportunity to connect math and biology with a different aspect.
İlayda
Hobbies: dancing, rock climbing, painting, playing guitar.
Favorite Trilogy:
Movie: Truman Show)
Book: Stefan Zweig - Chess
Song: Björk - It’s oh so quiet
Favorite Organism: danio rerio (definitely the cutest)
Most inspiring Person: Prof. Dr. Feryal Özel
Goal: I want to become a scientist because I would like to contribute to world’s knowledge in this area
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Why am I an iGEMer ?: It is the best platform for young scientists to create an idea, develop a project and to learn how to fully conduct research.