Students

Thomas

Thomas is our oh-so-serious team captain. He tries to be a real dictator, but he actually is just a really nice boy with curly hair. Thomas spend most of his time in the lab searching for subpopulations. When he is not in the lab he is arranging captain meetings and keeping all the team members happy and working.
Master Molecular Life Sciences and Biology

Belwina

Bel is our secretary. She needs to take notes for all the meetings we have. And we have them a lot! That is why we feel a bit sorry for Bel. After all, Bel is always the one that needs to cheer up the stressed out team members.
Master Molecular Life Sciences

Carina

This highly motivated girl likes to do everything. And with that we mean EVERYTHING. Writing, politics, flying, etcetera. With her people skills it was not difficult for us to name her Captain Human Practices. And maybe the chocolate played a role too.
Master Molecular Life Sciences

Lisa

This is Lisa. Lisa is our wiki manager and she invented wiki beach. Which is a lovely name for a FaceBook event where she kicks everyone’s buts to meet the deadlines. Every Wednesday she goes to our beehives to fetch Varroa mites, after which she will try, in vain, to feed them her mysterious samples.

Ronald

Ronald yelled the loudest that he would never ever go in the lab. Eventually Ronald was the only modeller who did wear a lab coat to experience what wet lab science is. After a few experiments he came to the conclusion that he should stay safely behind his computer for the rest of his life.
Master Bio-informatics

Mario

At first sight, Mario might be mistaken for a hipster businessman. He likes to talk about everything everywhere, but do make a coffee appointment with him. He can not reschedule his modelling work.
Master Biotechnology

Angelina

This is Angelina, Angelina is allergic to almost everything except bees, but even that is not sure. She also loves money and is therefore our treasurer ‘no money, no research’ she always says. We are not worried she keeps the money for herself; she is a nice little girl.
Bachelor Molecular Life Sciences

Marijn

Marijn is a real lab rat which is why he is our lab safety manager. He really needs to be alert, when he is not arround the other iGEMers might accidentally blow up the lab. But don’t get him wrong, he does like to blow things up. In D&D. Secretly we think he has plans to make some real-life monsters...
Bachelor Molecular Life Sciences

Jaccoline

Jaccoline is always smiling, we have NEVER seen her angry. She is also a sporty girl and working hard to try to pop her vesicles open with crystals. And all that to get nice graphs with even nicer colours.
Bachelor Molecular Life Sciences

Tianhe

A.k.a. Mark because his real name is too difficult to pronounce. He took almost one third of the lab work. How he has so much time to do all the work, no one knows. It might be due to his power naps he takes on his desk in the student office after the lunch break.
Master Biology

Remco

Linea

Linea is our serious German woman, with her role as Captain Facebook she reaches out to people all over the world. And dogs, don’t forget the dogs.
Master Biotechnology

Supervisors

Christian Fleck

Assistant professor of system and synthetic biology overall supervisor

Robert Smith

Postdoc System and Synthetic Biology, individual supervisor of Remco Heerdink and Angelina Horsting

Maarten Reijnders

PhD student System and Synthetic Biology, individual supervisor of Ronald de Jongh

Emma Keizer

PhD student System and Synthetic Biology, individual supervisor of Mario Beck

Kees van der Ark

PhD student Microbiology, individual supervisor of Lisa Röttjers

Alex Kruis

PhD student Microbiology, individual supervisor of Belwina Koopal

Franklin Luzia de Nobrega

PhD student Microbiology, individual supervisor of Thomas Swartjes and Jaccoline Zegers

Stamatios Damalas

PhD student Microbiology, individual supervisor of Carina Nieuwenweg and Tianhe Wang