Team:University of Chicago/Team

From 2008.igem.org

Revision as of 07:34, 9 July 2008 by Dmchoi87 (Talk | contribs)
Flatheader.png
Home Team Project Parts Modeling Notebook Meetings Papers


Contents

Faculty Advisers

Steve Kron
Strategery
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

Chris Schonbaum
Tactics
Biological Sciences Collegiate Division

Students

Parijata "Jata" Mackey
3rd year, Computational Neuroscience

Nora Yucel
2nd year, Biochemistry

Daniel M. Choi
2nd year, Theorist (Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Sociology) and voted most likely to kill E. coli with his mere presence

Laura Stone
3rd year, Biological Chemistry and Chemistry

Rob McConeghy
1st year, Biological Sciences

Damon Wang
1st year, Biological Chemistry

Recognized Student Organization

Synthetic Biology became a Recognized Student Organization at the University of Chicago on 30 May 2008. Our adviser is Dana Bozeman.

File:Constitution.txt

File:Rso application.txt

Interesting Notes

1. All the girls on the team have names that end in "A".
2. The platypus has no nipples. It secretes milk through its skin.
3. Humans are superorganisms whose metabolism represents an amalgamation of microbial and human attributes.
4. Daniel M. Choi is responsible for the explosion of his own iPod headphones with a non-resonating circuit placed more than 3 feet away from the apparatus he was working on.

"It somehow seems that biologists start to go engineer when they are at their wits' end and engineers go biology they are at their wits' end. Synthetic biology is probably neither biology nor engineering and that's good as both kind of people have to think outside their boxes."
-Dr. Markus Schmidt
International Dialogue and Conflict Management
Vienna, Austria

Abstract

Our abstract will appear here.