Team:UNITN-Trento/Team

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Fruity Team
Bruno Aor
Nickname: Br1
Description: An eccentric and creepy guy that doesn't miss the chance to show his fantastic body. A wannabe tango dancer with the passion for the worst “tunz tunz” music.
Skills: The Macgyver of biology, he built the Ripenator with only an hairpin and some chewing gum.
Favourite fruit: Allergic
Epic fail: He used 5ul of Phusion for each PCR (the most expensive protocol ever...)
Fabio Digiacomo
Nickname: Fabius
Description: The american guy nostalgic of the 90's stars like Britney Spears. He loves the life in the lab and he has a passion for the rack in which his fingers get stuck more times.
Skills: He could sell a comb to Vin Diesel! Our Vending Machine and designer, with a Master in Paint Programmation!
Favourite fruit: Strawberry
Epic fail: He put the trasformed cells at 0°C instead of 37°C
Gabriele Girelli
Nickname: Gire
Description: The king of the notebook (he changes this page at least 3 times a day)! He is the housekeeper and the first lady of the team but he always forgets to make us lunch!
Skills: Computer programming have no more secrets for him and for his lovely cat (it is called Dylan, Dylan Cat, by the way…). He is the chief of the wiki and the father of SAM synthetase.
Favourite fruit: Melon
Epic fail: Prepared the Petri plates with very little LB-agar and all the cells starved to death ( sooo sad D: )
Caterina Marchioretti
Nickname: KateKillah
Description: An easygoing girl full of surprises. Loves working with pipettes and listening to every kind of bad music. She is passionate for politics as for science.
Skills: The guardian angel of the team. She is always present for advices and to comfort everyone who has failed. We are not able to list all the things that she has done in the lab because from the early beginning she was working as a crazy monkey!
Favourite fruit: Peach
Epic fail: She prepared one litre of LB-agar instead of LB...
Michele Pedrotti
Nickname: Pedro
Description: The philosopher and animal party guy with many energies and existential problems! In every dread of him you can find many cool ideas and some B. fruity.
Skills: He gladdens the lab with reggae music and pearls of wisdom during the most difficult days. He can stay awake for many days to make experiments and characterisations.
Favourite fruit: Watermelon
Epic fail: Tried to eluite a few grams of salicylic acid in a very small volume of water.
Thomas Perli
Nickname: Xli
Description: The sporty man able to run faster than the DNA during the electrophoresis. You can ask him for private lesson of biology and chemistry, mostly if you are a pretty girl.
Skills: With his decrepit Mac he is still able to design primers! Probably after these months he produces more ethylene than testosterone but this is a good offering for the SCIENCE!
Favourite fruit: Tomato
Epic fail: He has butterfingers...
Emil Tonon
Nickname: ET
Description: A guy with many skills among whom SINGING! A little bit hypochondriac so: don’t drink ethidium bromide in his presence!
Skills: 10Tb of memory: Emil is the big boss of the knowledge! He passes many hours in lab with his baby Bacillus and tell them story about dinosaurs and the origin of life.
Favourite fruit: "Stark delicious" apple
Epic fail: He induced with IPTG the xilose-inducible promoter
Viola Valentini
Nickname: Birubiru
Description: The flower of the team, she became a superstar after her first video on youtube “Zozzoni”. You can ask a live performance for some loaves of bread.
Skills: She is always cheerful and positive and she surely will become a loving mother, as we have seen in these few months with her baby bacillus.
Favourite fruit: Cherry
Epic fail: She put the transformed cells in the shaker without LB...