Team:UC Berkeley/Team/Bing Xia



MY NAME/NICKNAME

Bing Xia (or Lemonade, or Digestor)

MY STATS

I'm a soon to be 3rd year applied math/MCB double major at UC Berkeley

WHAT LED ME TO SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY

Before getting invovled with iGEM, I've read a few articles in various science magazines on synthetic biology and found the idea interesting. I found out about iGEM through research.berkeley.edu, and I thought it would be an interesting and worthwhile way to spend my summer. I think our iGEM project this summer connects to the greater goals of synthetic biology by trying to engineer something that will make engineering organisms easily and reliably possible.

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY: IN MY WORDS

Although I'm not exactly sure what synthetic biology is, I get the impression that it is something along the lines of the science of creating organisms with new and novel functions that don't exist in nature.

MY POSSIBLE FUTURE WITH SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY

In the future, I'm hoping to work more with the computational side of synthetic biology this fall - I've already asked Doug if I could help with development on Clotho in the fall after the computational team disbands at the end of the summer.

MY FAVORITE DNA SEQUENCE

My favorite DNA sequence will eventually be the sequence of the self lysis device we are making - unfortunately, at the moment, we're not sure what that will be, and it would also be quite long.

MY DUMBEST LAB MISTAKE/COMPUTATIONAL ERROR

My silliest lab mistake was setting Aron's DNA on fire....0=).

MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD CARTOON

While I remember watching cartoons as a child, I have no idea which one was my favorite.

MY FAVORITE FOOD

One of my favorite foods is sushi.

A BOARDWORTHY QUOTE

"I'll find it. Consider it done." -Jin