Team
Abi
Role: DNA DESIGN, SAXS, FRET
Background: Chemical Engineering
Fun Fact: World’s most cooked chemical engineer
Frets about SAX
Jackson
Role: TEAM LEADER, DNA DESIGN, PROTEIN ENGINEERING
Background: Chemistry
Fun Fact: World’s dankest meme collection
Mantra: “yeah that’s cool. I CanDo that”
Ralph
Role: TEM, MICROSCOPY
Background: Materials Science Eng/Biomedical Eng
Fun Fact: World record for most words spoken in a minute
Can synthesise DNA origami, take TEM images, build a microscope, but can’t run a gel.
Sabrina
Role: WEB DESIGN, PROGRAMMING
Background: Bioinformatics Eng/Biomedical Eng
Fun Fact: World record for number of lines coded while asleep
Writes 1000 lines of code, 0 actual sentences. “I’m trying, but words are hard”
Wendy
Role: PROTEIN ENGINEERING
Background: Telecommunications Eng/Biotechnology
Fun Fact: Microwaved more agar than food
Dishes out more banter than the team combined… and more aliquots
Supervisors
Lawrence
Role: The Big L
Fun Fact: Owns the world’s largest collection of thongs (the Australian kind)
Jon
Role: PhD Student, BIOMOD 2014
Fun Fact: Has a sweet tattoo and rocks heavy metal
Sophie
Role: PhD Student
Fun Fact: World’s best sarcasm (for a German)
Andy
Role: PhD Student, BIOMOD 2014
Fun Fact: If BIOMOD were Back to the Future, he’d be Doc Brown
Steph
Role: Honours Student, BIOMOD 2015
Fun Fact: World’s second dankest meme collection, and the best Pokemon Go player
Rokiah
Role: Honours Student
Fun Fact: Pretty cool… for an English major
Special Thanks
This project wouldn’t have gotten as far as it has without the support of so many people. We’d like to express our sincerest gratitude to Boe, Matt, Chu, Andrew, Michael, Maria, Ade, Katie, Nigel, all of the Lee Lab and all of our friends and family and lecturers for putting up with us over the past couple of months.