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Team Description
We are team iBowu-China. Our team consists 18 members including sixteen students, two student leaders, and three instructors. Our team members come from Beijing, Shanghai,and Shenzhen in China, as well as east coast and west coast in the United States. This long-distance communication gives us advantages and disadvantages for our project.
The Respected (yet sometimes joked upon) Leaders
Hedy Zhu
Team Leader - China
HP Member
Hedy Zhu
Hey, I'm Hedy and I am currently a Y11 student at Dulwich College Beijing. Being a first year competitor of iGEM and the co-leader of our team, I did not know what to expect from it at first, but in the shortest time, I had fun in every single aspect of the project: from project design to human practices. Not surprisingly, even though leading a team can be hard sometimes, I still truly enjoyed the few months that we spent in the lab (unless someone messes up the experiment, again) and all the arguments over our team logo design.
Fun fact: I am competitive sailor, corgi owner and a not-so-great artist.
Linda Liu
Team Leader - USA
Wiki Design Member
Linda Liu
I am Linda "Juehan" Liu, currently a junior at Palo Alto High School in California. I specialize in biology and website design as a high school student. I participated many scientific labs in both biology and chemistry classes at my high school; those lab experiences laid a foundation for me to participate in iGEM. The reason that I chose to participate in iGEM is that I enjoy the challenge of scientific discussions and learning about all innovative ideas. Besides learning synthetic biology through competing in iGEM, I also earned a precious experience to plan and execute a project with my team, iBowu-China. With this team work, I am able to contribute to building up a project from scratch and to learn cool stuff from cool people.
Fun Fact: I love music, especially classical piano. Whenever I become too emotional, I will play the piano for myself to calm down.
The Obedient (yet whimsical) Group Leaders
Jiayi Li
HP Leader
Jiayi Li
I am Jiayi Li, a year 10 student from Harrow International School in Beijing. I have a genuine passion in biological sciences driven from my previous experiences and knowledge at school. By participating in iGem, I am able to develop a further insight into this field as well as consolidating my current knowledge. I also find iGEM a great opportunity to develop my leadership through various Human Practices activities, which include organizing events and communicating with people from different social backgrounds.
Fun Fact: I am a Disney fan.
Nick Chen
Wiki Design Leader
Nick Chen
Drifting across the lab and the so-called office, I've taken part in various stages of our project. I've witnessed the highs and lows of our team. Usually leashed next to my laptop and jamming my fingers on the keyboard, punching lines of code into the system. Though this job seems tedious and seemingly forced, I actually enjoy it. From a young age, I've always been a programming enthusiast. Procuring lore from various websites, I've gained the basics of HTML and CSS required for web design. Along with my preliminary knowledge in Python, I've helped Web Design in many ways and proved to be a valuable member.
Fun Facts: I spend my free time in a claustrophobic and slightly perverted squash court.
David Wei
Modeling Leader
David Wei
Hello, I'm Bomin Wei. I've taken a part in modeling and web design. I'm the leader of modeling team and... Oh, I think I need to make it funny. I like biology. I think doing research is an interesting thing. So, I join the modeling group and web design group. Well, modeling is an important part. I'm familiar with programming, and I have learned HTML and python. Thus, I need to be response with modeling and web design. I'm try my best on modeling and Wiki design. Even spending days and days in front of computer. (oh! My eyesight!) I'm leading the modeling to try our best on the project.
The Collaborative ( and Hardworking?) Team Members
Danny Cui
PD & HP Member
Wiki Design Member
Danny Cui
Hi! I'm Danny Cui. Hailing from the Loomis Chaffee school in Windsor, CT of the United States, I am interested in Biology, Latin, and English. Shifting between the lab, in front of my laptop, and discussions with my teammates on a daily basis, I am a part of both the Project Design and Human Practice teams of iBowu-China. I have worked intensively on recording the progress of our PD team throughout the summer, keeping a detailed journal of all of our daily experiments. As someone who is closely involved with both the PD and HP teams, I also helped compile and upload a list of biological parts used.
Fun Fact: I run on average 50 miles year round.
Ian Liu
PD & HP Member
Ian Liu
Hello everyone, my name is zheyuan Liu. I am a 10th grade student from the stony brook school. I am a big fan of biology and engineering. I am very happy to participate in the IGEM contest which cooperates engineering and biology and provides future scientists with a wonderful stage. There are many talented individuals in our group and I am honored to work with these people. I am a member of both project design and human practice and I am really happy to support my team.
Fun Facts: I am way more interesting than my introduction.
Holly Zhuang
HP Member
Holly Zhuang
Hi, I am Holly. Having attended the Stuart Country Day School of New Jersey since 9th grade, I am a group leader of iBowu-China's Human Practice team. In addition to making potato cookbooks and conducting surveys, I am also closely involved with the development of the entrepreneurial plan and the Project Design team. My understanding of the laboratory part of the project has allowed me to shape more meaningful human practice activities. As someone who studies in the U.S., I have also had some special opportunities that offered unique benefits to the team. For example, I was able to participate in a short trip to Peru during which I interviewed local farmers who are plagued by soft rot, the very same disease our project aims to solve.
Fun Fact: I've been watching every US open tennis game since 2017.
Zoe Li
HP Member
Zoe Li
Hi all! I'm Zoe from Shenzhen College of International Education. As a first-year iGEMer, inexperienced, everything is challenging and innovative here. In my spare time, I would enjoy myself by reading, doing photography, playing golf and developing skills of guitar and urban dance. From the initial confusion of joining the iGEM group to gradually integrating into the team, our advisors, instructors, and teammates have taught me a lot. I exercised my text knowledge, made friends with many excellent students through the whole process. Curiosity urges me to explore the unknown, good communication skills enable me to better complete the HP tasks. I am willing to experience new things every minute of my life.
Peter Qi
PD Member
Peter Qi
I am Shaoyuan Qi, the freshmen of George school in PA. I am sure if you are not Chinese, you will never pronounce right my name. So you can call me at Peter. It is my first year to attend in this competition. Glad to meet you all.
Fun Facts: Love eatin! Cannot stop eating!
Richard Han
PD Member
Richard Han
I'm Richard Han, a student from The Branch of The High school Affiliated to Renmin University of China. I love science, music, games and sunny weather. As an eighth grader, I'm always curious about biology and genetic stuffs. In our team, I'm a member of the human practice part. This is my first year participating in iGEM, but I'm full of confidence. Through the competition, I'm hoping to gain more knowledge about synthetic biology, and make some new friends.
Rouxuan Yu
PD Member
Rouxuan Yu
Hello, my name is Alice and I am a 14 years-old rising 10th grader who studies at Beijing World Youth Academy. I am very curious about new things and I also really like to create new things, such as edit genes and observe the body structure of different animals. I see countless possibilities with Biology and believe there still is an abyss of knowledge to discover in this field. I believe we can use our knowledge in Biology to make the world even better than it already is. This is my reasoning in participating in IGEM. I enjoy spending my free time listening to music and singing. Music gives me inspiration. I also like playing volleyball with my schoolmates because I also enjoy working as a team.
Oliver Yuan
Modeling Member
Oliver Yuan
What's up guys, I'm Oliver, a tenth grade student. I study in the Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University. I am in charge of the modeling page and data analysis.
Fun Facts: I am a Liverpool fan and my favorite song is United Road.
Sam Wang
Wiki Design Member
Sam Wang
My name is Sam. I'm a senior student in Shenzhen Middle school. I would like to describe myself as a passionate and fun guy. My interests are greatly widespread. They include science, sport, art and so on. I always loved to try things that are new to me. Take music as an instance, music on the Billboard is not my only choice, I also love the classical as well. I play the saxophone in the school orchestra, but sometimes I play and listen to jazz. By the way, earnest attitude is my standard of working or studying, so I'm always making my best effort.
The Experienced and Talented Instructors
Ivan Zhao
Primary PI
Lin
Secondary PI
Lin
Don't mind the layout and stuff. Just the animation :D
Zhe Leng
Instructor
Zhe Leng
Don't mind the layout and stuff. Just the animation :D
Acknowledgement
First of all, we would like to thank everyone who contributed in this project. Thanks iGEM 2019 for giving us an opportunity to display our research results, as well as a platform to communicate with other talented teams and experts.
The Sponsers
We specially thank iBowu under BGI and SnapGene for providing us financial support as well as software support.
General Support
Mr. Zhe Leng from BGI helped us unbrainstorm our project. Dr. Yaran Zhao from Peking Unversity gave us special experimental details and helped us to succeed in labs. Dr. Xiaomei Lin from Tsinghua University helped us organize data.
Modeling Support
Mr. Kangjian Hua helped our modeling team to organize and analyze data.
Wiki Support
Mr. Honghao Zhang from Tencent gave us technological support and helped us edit and upload the website.
Human Practices Support
Mr. Haiyong Wang from the Health Risk Assessment and Control Committee of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association have us the valuable information about potato nutritions, which led us to make our potato recipe.