Team:Stanford/Team Plus
Meet Team Plus
Huge thanks for the support of our mentors, interns, PI's, and sponsors!
Eran Agmon
Team Mentor
Eran Agmon is a postdoc in the Department of Bioengineering, where he is part of the Covert lab’s team developing a whole-cell computational model of Escherichia coli. His research interests include multi-scale modeling frameworks for cell biology, models of lipid membranes and transmembrane transport, the spatial organization of cells, and bacterial chemotaxis.
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Benchling
Team Sponsor
Benchling is powering the biotechnology revolution. Biotechnology is transforming every aspect of our lives – from the drugs we take, to the food we eat, to the clothes we wear. To make these innovations a reality, life science organizations need better-engineered processes, greater predictability, and greater scalability. Benchling is making this possible by enabling rapid, iterative development, empowering faster and smarter decision-making, and accelerating the move to labless companies – for the benefit of us all.
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Innovation Endeavors
Team Sponsor
Innovation Endeavors was founded in 2010 by Eric Schmidt and Dror Berman. Innovation Endeavors invests in visionary founders, transformational technologies and emergent ecosystems for a new world.
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Drew Endy
Primary Investigator
Dr. Drew Endy is a member of the bioengineering faculty at Stanford University and BioBricks Foundation president (biobricks.org). His research teams pioneered amplifying genetic logic, rewritable DNA data storage, reliably-reuseable standard biological parts, and genome refactoring. Drew helped launch the new undergraduate majors in bioengineering at both MIT and Stanford; he also co-founded the iGEM competition, a global genetic engineering “olympics” now engaging over 6,000 students annually (igem.org).
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Harmony Folse
Team Mentor
Harmony is a master's student in Genetics at Stanford. They are working in the Lipsick and Fuller labs studying the reproductive development of fruit flies. They have a passion for mentoring and science education and hope to become a full-time community college professor in the future.
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Irene Madejski
Team Intern
Irene Madejski is a senior at The Nueva School interested in genetic research and its therapeutic applications. She worked on the AcrIIA4 testing in vivo and in vitro.
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Elena Mujica
Team Intern
Elena Mujica is a senior at Los Altos High school interested in personalized medicine and bioremediation, among other bioscience interests. She worked on the AcrIIA4 testing in vitro and in vivo.
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Muneaki Nakamura
Team Mentor
Muni received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford and is currently performing postdoctoral work with Stanley Qi in Bioengineering. His research centers around developing novel CRISPR-based tools for gene regulation, including biotechnological applications of anti-CRISPR proteins.
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Angelynn Nguyen
Team Intern
Angelynn Nguyen is a freshman at UCLA majoring in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics and Political Sciences. She is interested in determining novel methods to prevent antimicrobial resistance due to biofilm formation. Moreover, she worked on the AcrIIA4 Cell Free, In Vivo Acr, and Acr Qβ portions of the project.
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Stanley Qi
Primary Investigator
Dr. Lei Qi (Stanley) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering (School of Engineering), Department of Chemical and Systems Biology (School of Medicine), and a core faculty member in Stanford ChEM-H Institute. He is one pioneer in the CRISPR technology development for genome engineering.
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Marie La Russa
Team Mentor
Marie is a research scientist working in the Bioengineering Department of Stanford University. She obtained her B.S. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from UCLA. She then enrolled at UCSF, where she obtained her PhD in Biomedical Sciences in the lab of Dr. Stanley Qi. Her thesis work focused on the use of CRISPR tools to control embryonic stem cell identity and differentiation. After working a stint as a postdoctoral scholar in Dr. Qi's lab after he moved to Stanford, Marie became a research scientist there. Her work now focuses on ways of using CRISPR tools as a novel way to fight influenza infection and toxicity.
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Josh Tycko
Team Mentor
Josh is a Genetics PhD candidate who is inspired by the possibility of genetically-encoded solutions to challenges in human health. At Stanford, he is developing new approaches to manipulate, measure, and model the human epigenome. He loved competing in iGEM in 2013 and has been mentoring teams ever since.
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