TEAM

Team member

Lisa

My name is Lisa. I come from High School Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I am a girl who loves science. Participating in IGEM largely furthers my understanding of professional experiment, broadens my knowledge base, and improves my self-learning ability. Concentrating on a challenging project not only makes me learn from the advantages and talents of my teammates, but also cultivates my experimental thought capability. Although I confront frustrations during experiment, I learn that patience, reflection and cooperation are keys to countering obstacles. Among the team, I am responsible for doing experiments, writing articles, designing and recording offline interviews.
Dora

I am Dora Li Jia Yue from Shanghai Qibaodwight High School. In our team, I am responsible of doing plenty of experiments. In my daily life, I define myself as a positive smiling girl. I enjoy playing guitar as well as dancing. I find joy in meeting various people and exchanging different opinions with them. However, there’s one thing I felt so unconfident——my leadership. I tried my best to be a responsible leader , but I failed for more than once. When I decided to be a member of our IGEM team, I thought it would be a good way to enrich my biology knowledge. But it’s more than knowledge, l learn a lot from our experimental group leader——from how she helped me and distributed our work. Sometimes I felt lucky because what l learnt from her was not replaceable.
Jake

As for me, I come from Shanghai United International school (WanYuan Campus), and I really enjoy IGEM though there are some sophistication and difficulties. The reason why I say IGEM is enjoyable is that IGEM brings me some experience in synthetic biology and many new friends. Also, IGEM gives me a chance to innovate my own genes, which widen my sight in innovation-not only we can create macro product, but also produce some new things in micro area by some technologies.
My roles：
Doing the lab
Analyzing some data
Sharing progress of experiment
Editing the wiki page
Jessica

My name is Jessica Hung, a rising junior from the Shanghai SMIC Private school, and this is my first year participating iGEM. As the wet lab team member and leader, I was at first greatly challenged because I am one of the youngest members among others and I was not as familiar to the laboratory equipments as my teammates. However, throughout the entire in-lab process, I developed my leadership skills by constantly communicating with other elder members and instructors, focusing on the central mission of our research, and creating laughters in the team.
My Roles:
-Lead the team focusing on LAMP amplification
-Writing our Wiki page information
-Remind my teammates of certain deadlines related to Wiki
Angel

My name is Zhou Jingyi. I’m from Inner Mongolia, Hohhot. I am very lucky to participate in the IGEM competition as a wet lab member, getting a lot of precious experience that I have never had before. I truly understand that remembering some rules does’t mean I master them. It is actually the basis. However, only after I have done the experiment step by step, making mistakes and correcting them, can I really learn something. IGEM sparked my interest in biology and allows me to discover my talent. Apart from this, I also made many good friends. We help each other and work together.
Role:
- Assist the teacher to do basic experiment
-Write the experiment report
Irene

My name is Irene Tang. I am a student from Shanghai Yang Jing High School. I am really glad to participate in IGEM as a lab member. It is a good chance for me to learn a lot of knowledge and to learn how to behave properly in the professional laboratory. In the past, I was afraid of getting along with strangers. However , my group members are very kind and friendly, and they treat me nicely. Therefore, I have made a lot of new friends there ,and I am not afraid of dealing with strangers now. In the team, I am responsible for art and pictures. By, the way, the team logo is designed by me.
Roles:
-pictures
-logo design
Fiona

My name is Fiona Xie, a senior from Shanghai America International School. I am deeply passionate about biochemistry, specifically, genetics and nutrition. I’d like my career to revolve around biochemistry, which I fondly call” the scalpel of god”, for I believe in the power of these amazing codes and formulas to induce change personally and globally. Therefore, I consider IGEM as an opportunity for me to not only enhance my academic knowledge but also professionalize my laboratory skills of this field. This is my first year of being an IGEMer, and I am so grateful and thrilled to work with this group of excellent people in such a sophisticated laboratory. This experience gives me a better idea of how the modern genetic engineering works and how can we use these novel techniques to resolve a variety of issues happening around the world.
Vikey

My name is Vikey Jia. I am now studying in Shanghai Guanghua College, CN. This is my first time participating iGem as one of the wet lab team leader. It is a great opportunity for me to enrich my lab experience and work in a team. Before this, I never had time to use bio equipment freely and did an experiment by ourselves. iGem gives me this valuable opportunity to make myself better; not only on how to do an experiment better but how to communicate with others and achieve the goal altogether. Among the team members, I was one of the most active one and most of the parts that we used in the experiment are made by me.
Role:
-making plasmid
-writing articles
-make everyone involve in the team
Ivory Li

As a team leader in the dry lab, now it's all about studying for toefl and preparing for sat test. In this IGEM competition, I made many plans for the team's publicity；in a fund-raising activity, as the host, I prepared a lot of activities to promote the project. Establishing a new beginning in my life, I learned a lot about managing teams.
According to Ivory, the word of the day is always “passion”.
Role:
-Controlling the progress of each practice.
-Integrating materials after interview.
-Compiling pictures which were photographed in activities.
- Promoting our project on the Internet.
Frank

My name is Xiuchen Lu, from Shanghai Shangde Experimental School, Grade 12. It’s unbelievable that I can work with other students in such a perfect and friendly team. In the lab, I use a lot of complex experimental appratuses that I have never seen before. And, as an iGEM wet lab team member, I mainly responsible for the research of experimental subjects, the sorting of experimental data, the configuration of experimental solution and the completion of experimental reports. As a platform, iGEM not only enables a group of like-minded people to strive for the same goal, but also makes me understand the importance of teamwork. Besides, iGEM also expands my knowledge of biochemistry and helps me gain a perceptual understanding of my future majior choice.
Role：
-Making data analysis
-Making PCR and Plasmid experiment
-Writing articles
Tommy Cai

My name is Tommy Cai. I am now studying in Malden Catholic High School in Malden, MA. This is my first time participating iGem as a dry lab member. It is a great challenge for me. Before this, I was a shy boy who can hardly communicate with others and speak in front of a group of people. However, I overcame myself by a few interviews and some public speakings. IGem gives me confidence and allows me to discover my talent.
Role:
- creating interview questions
- Writing articles
- Compere of a fund-raising activity
- Bring the team laughter
Alex Lei

Being the youngest in the team does not mean he attributes the least. Though not a man of science he is a 15-year old boy of energy and passion. Alex is the video editor of the team and serves as the editor and publisher of the official account. Some may still call him a boy but the ones who knows him well recognize him as a dedicated man, his skills might not be excelled but persistence is his weapon. Even so, under the domination of the supreme team leader the survival skills he acquired from life experience seems insufficient.
Role:
Video/report editor
Material collector
Publisher
Tian Jinzhou

The IGEM program really affect me, a common high school student. Before I became the dry club member, i hardly imagine i would work with a group of people who are energetic and competent. During the training phase, i am not good at bringing new ideas to our team, but i am a excellent listener. The power of execution is the key to help me fit in the group, and collaborate with my teammates. Role: write the article
Do the handcraft
Tony Gu

This is Tony Gu, one of the most vital member of the dry lab of ShangHai HS United. This is his first time participating in such event, though, he contributes a lot to the team. He is a great team player and often collaborates with his team members. He is the editor of the wiki page and efficiently demonstrated his programming skills in constructing the wiki page. Through this challenge, he acquired important life experiences. Role:
Wiki construction, suffering through learning programming language that I never used before
Kindent Li

My name is Kindent. Being an ordinary high school student, I had never imagined in participating in such event, which potentially could affect thousands of people’s life in real world. However, I faced the challenge and tried to overcome the difficulties I had faced throughout the event. As an active and most aspirational member of the team, I took on the vital task of article writing for our team’s official social media publication. My articles had been read by hundreds of my friends, which I hope could inspire them and promote the product we have designed.
Hao Xie

Hi, I am Hao Xie. I am currently a high school student at Westview High School in California. Participating as a dry lab member is a brand new experience for me. This valuable chance encourages me to challenge myself; while cooperating with my team members, the process of preparing for iGem became a great knowledge resource for me. Before I started, I was not capable of explaining things logically in front of many strangers. However, after some community activities we held about the ASAF, I feel more confident in describing the concept of things to others. Amongst all team members, I believe I am the one whom expertise in public speaking.
Role:
Writing articles
Community activities

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