TEAM

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I'm glad I had my flight.

MEMBERs

Zheng Pu

ZHENG Pu is a sophomore majoring life sciences with special interest in mathematics. He is the team leader of Peking iGEM 2013 team. He is involved in various issues and various biosensors. Although he has no assignment everyday, he shows up every minute! He is also involved in design of our bandpass filter and application equipment. After lab hours, wait, does he has hours for rest?

Shi Hailing

SHI Hailing is in her third year in the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at Peking University. She is mainly in charge of the characterization of aromatic sensors along with XUE Haoran via ELIASA and Flow cytometer. Except the tests of all kinds of sensors of the project, she also takes up the construction of the part NahF as the "plug in" of the sensor NahR. At the same time, she helps to maintain the operation of the laboratory.
Besides synthetic biology, she is interested in biophysical chemistry especially drug design and protein engineering. She really enjoys the Peking iGEM 2013 project this summer.

Liang Jing

LIANG Jing, AKA Crystal, is a sophomore from PKU School of Basic Medical Sciences, in charge of human practice and works in wet lab. She was also an elite gymnast and an amateur musical actress. As the boundaries among different disciplines of science are now blurring, basic medical sciences is now becoming a vital approach in understanding human health science, while synthetic biology is a fascinating way to combine our knowledge and put them into use. I look forward to these disciplines to make our life much better. Being on PKU iGEM team is awesome, probably the best experience in my college life.

Xue Haoran

XUE Haoran is a sophomore in Peking University majoring in Biological Science. He is responsible for the induction and the characterization of biosensors. He induces bacteria with many kinds of aromatic compounds and then tests the fluorescence intensity of induced bacteria carrying GFP, using ELIASA and flow cytometer. He does these experiments with Shi Hailing, another tester in this team. He also handles some daily affairs of the team.

Liu Shiyu

LIU Shiyu is a sophomore in the School of Life Science, Peking University. He is devoted in the work relating to molecular cloning operation, such as construction of sensor system and band-pass filters. He is interested in how life operates, including its metabolism, reproduction and regulation. He has a deep comprehension of the life machine and tries to realize many wicked ideas, although most of them have nothing to do with the project. He pays more attention to the feeling in the proceeding of experiment rather than the result. Challenging a new method will motivate him. He is also interested in literature and music.

Hou Yuhang

HOU Yuhang is a sophomore in Peking University in 2012 majoring in Physics. Yuhang mainly works on project Modeling. He is interested in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Stochastic Process, System Biology, Synthetic Biology and Batman.

Zhang Yihao

ZHANG Yihao, from the School of Life Science. Early on in the project he undertook preparing various basic plasmid backbones as a fundamental work, while later in the project he established two sensor systems, NahR and CapR. In addition to his lab work, Yihao acted as team designer. He was enthusiastic in project beautification, witnessed by his respectable fellows: Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere, who offered selfless help during the nights, when he was designing the wiki page, posters , T-shirts, pins and bookmarks, as well as enhancing photos and editing the videos for human practice. For the night is dark and full of terrors!

Helena Viets

Helena Viets is a sophomore hailing from the fabulous University of California at Berkeley, majoring in Molecular Environmental Biology (with a minor in Chinese). She had a wonderful time this summer as a part of the PKU iGEM team and learned a lot, like how to say things like “all thirty-three of my colony PCRs failed” in Chinese. Her function in the project was building a ribosome library for the sensors, among other things. Outside of slaving in the lab, Helena enjoys dragonboating, Olympic weightlifting, eating ice cream, and napping.

ADVISORs

Ouyang Qi