Team:Aalto-Helsinki/Team
All Your Team Are Belong To Us 2
Emilia Broman
Aalto University
Bachelor’s student in bioinformation technology, minoring in interdisciplinary product development. She is especially interested in applying synthetic biology for medicine and health-related products.
Hele Haapaniemi
Aalto University
Master’s student in biosystems and biomaterials engineering program. She is interested in engineering microbial cells using synthetic biology tools to cure difficult diseases. In the future she would like to work in pharmaceutical industry.
Saara Hiltunen
Aalto University
Bachelor’s student in bioinformation technology and minoring in molecular biosciences. iGEM combines all of her interests, such as cell biology, bioengineering and research work, and is a great opportunity to apply her interdisciplinary studies in the field of synthetic biology.
Rashad Ismayilzada
Aalto University
Master’s student in bioinformatics. He is shifting from computer science to biology to gain a deeper understanding of living systems and to engineer things with synthetic tools.
Antti Koistinen
Aalto University
Master's student in Biotechnology program. He wants to learn how synthetic biology can be applied to large scale bioprocess applications.
Laura Laiho
University of Helsinki
Bachelor’s student of molecular biosciences, majoring in biotechnology. She is excited about engineering genetic circuits and using medical applications of synthetic biology to discover new treatments for incurable diseases.
Nidia Obscura
University of Helsinki
Bachelor’s student in mathematics and computer science in algorithms and machine learning. She enjoys combining math with different fields of research, especially biology, and believes that multidisciplinary work is the answer to real-world problems.
Pihla Savola
Aalto University
Bachelor’s student in biotechnology and chemical technology. She wants to understand nature and living organisms, and is fascinated by synthetic biology because of the new possibilities it offers for designing biological systems.
Snehadri Sinha
University of Helsinki
Master’s student of molecular biosciences, majoring in biochemistry. He wants to uncover the potential of synthetic biology in solving problems, especially in the field of clinical biochemistry.
Jami Valorinta
University of Helsinki
Bachelor’s student in mathematics. During iGEM, he hopes to apply his experience in mathematics and programming to the modern field of synthetic biology.
Advisors
Markus Linder
Aalto University
Our mentor, Markus Linder, is a professor leading Biomolecular materials group at Aalto University in the department of Biotechnology and Chemical technology. He has been mentoring also previous Aalto-Helsinki teams so he knows what he is doing.
Heli Viskari
Aalto University
Our instructor, Heli Viskari, is a teacher at Aalto University and works in Markus’ group. She has been helping us with various everyday problems – such as PCR troubleshooting. Also she has experience from helping other iGEM teams.
Acknowledgements
Besides Markus and Heli, bunch of people has advised us. We appreciate their help really much and are grateful that we got to work with such amazing and smart people. Thank you!
David Fewer from University of Helsinki helped us planning the project and with degradation enzyme testing.
Alexander Frey from Aalto University solved many of our problems related to yeast.
Jussi Jäntti from VTT attended many of our brainstorming sessions and advised us ever since.
Pezhman Mohammadi from Aalto University has given us many practical advices especially for protein purification.
Dominik Mojzita from VTT gave us advice related to stress reactions and choosing yeast strain.
Merja Oja from VTT has helped us with modelling.
Merja Penttilä from VTT made us think outside the box in our brainstorming sessions.
Anssi Rantasalo from VTT has helped us with design of our transporter constructs.
Jorg de Ruijter from Aalto University has helped us with various everyday problems.
Kaarina Sivonen from Helsinki University know everything about blue-green algae, and was thus big help for us.
Georg Smidt from Aalto University has helped us with ordering and designing DNA inserts and troubleshooting PCR.
Matti Wahlsten helped us with enzyme activity analysis.
