Team:Leeds/Team

The Students

The Leeds team is drawn from a variety of backgrounds, please read the bios below.

Emily Taylor

Emily is a second year biochemistry student at the university of Leeds with a particular interest in proteins and nucleosomes, as well as in the field of immunology. Keen on volunteering, Emily hopes to one day work with elephants and children in Thailand. Emily is an ideal member of the iGEM team, being highly organised, hard working and forward thinking. By the end of the project, Emily hopes to have built upon her lab skills and gain research experience in a more realistic, scientific environment.

Jonah Ciccone

Jonah is a third year biochemist, passionate about art, music and karate. As well as bringing his scientific knowledge to the plate; Jonah has been put in charge of the teams artistic direction. Looking to gain further lab experience from the project, he's also keen to delve into the SynBio community.

Joe Beton

A second year biochemist, Joe has joined iGEM to pursue his passion, synthetic biology, and to work creatively in the lab. Further, Joe is looking to improve his public speaking skills and gain more lab experience. Outside his adventures, Joe plays multiple musical instruments. Joe is excited to work on the cutting edge of research. Joe is looking forward to making new discoveries, helping lead the Leeds iGEM team and have an exciting summer.

Jenni Shoesmith

Jeni is from Yorkshire and is currently starting her second year studying biochemistry at the university of leeds. Jeni has a passion for nature and cares for multiple animals at home. She enjoys things such as knitting, sewing and cooking. Jeni has a wide range of skills and social interactions combined. Both her passion for ethics and practical skills make her a valuable member of the iGEM team.

Oleg Karpov

Somewhat of an enigma, this crazy ruskie drinks vodka like water, and sweats agar gel. He's a walking talking Synthetic Biology machine

Sabrina Knight

Sabrina's Bio

Daniel Burt (AKA Flipper)

Daniel is a nanotechnology student. He is a computer geek and enjoys gaming. He is from London and is half Indian. Daniel is a fan of technology and good at fixing things as well as having skills in many other areas. His hobbies include breakdancing, martial arts and boxing. He wishes to gain more lab experience from working on the iGEM team and to engage with the community and network with other scientists. Flipper is also the team's cassanova; charming the underwear of anyone in a 6 metre radius

Paul Turner

Paul is a 4th year physicist at Leeds and the part of his degree he enjoys most is the aspects of problem solving. Outside of university he enjoys 10 pin bowling and has an interest in history. He is good at breaking down complex problems and explaining ideas and concepts to others. Skills Paul brings to the iGEM team are physical experiment design and coding experience for the website and computer side of the project. As a physicist he also has an outside view of synthetic biology.

The Academics

The iGEM team has gained some significant interest from quite a few academics based at Leeds University, and from multiple departments. The team only has two supervisors, but having so many great minds popping by the office certainly adds to the teams resources!

Luke Bawazaar

Luke's Bio

James Ross

James' Bio

Sarah Deacon

Sarah's Bio

Michael McPherson

Mike's Bio

Steve Evans

Prof. Evans' Bio

Lorna Dougan

Dr. Dougan's Bio

Chris Jones

Chris's Bio