Team:Newcastle/Team

A trampolining, opera-watching, guitar-and-sometimes-piano-playing, dangerous-cyclling, wine-drinking, cheese-eating, gourmet chef – Yana also sometimes works on iGEM.

Alina is our only architect in the team but has thrown herself into the lab work with lots of enthusiasm. Her strengths are in her strong eye for design (as seen in the team logo), her straight talking attitude and supportive and friendly nature. She also enjoys hikes, cheese, wine, watching Miss Marple, cherry tea, trips to the cinema and photography.

Rob can often be seen rapidly skateboarding to Uni in his beanie hat and funky T-shirt in fear of being late. His sociable, friendly, approachable, funny bearded face can always be seen in the lab.

In his stressed state, PLEASE feed him chocolate in order to return him to his normal relaxed state.

Izzy rhymes with cheesy and easy, but one couldn’t be more wrong here! She prefers cheese and wine to tea and cake, and we don’t blame her. She’s sweet enough to sugar a dozen cakes, while adding a bit of zest for the flavour!

Izzy’s the life of every party. Thanks to her no one can ever forget it’s Friday!

Geoff (pronounced Jeff, not Joff) is a friendly, inoffensive young lad from Wrexham. When he does manage to anger people they are likely to throw shoes at him, although this is a rare occurrence. His main hobby is hiking and when drunk he likens himself to mushrooms fried in garlic.