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Team:NTNU-Trondheim/Team
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This is the third year a team from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is participating
in the iGEM competition. Our team consists of five students with background in Biotechnology, Molecular Medicine
and Medical Technology. Mostly our collective background is in molecular biology colored with biophysics,
immunology and biotechnology. We have four advisors with different specialities! Rahmi is our lab-GOD and
has all the answers. Eivind gives us money and inspiration, Martin is our GFP-expert and Gunvor with her
past iGEM team experience has been alot of help! We are naive students that want to come up with crazy ideas
that suporvisors are to experienced to consider an opportunity. Our project this year is HIGH-risk and it was almost immidiately clear to us that this was what we wanted to do this year. Considering the time-limit of iGEM it was an ambitous project and had everything gone as planned and expected we could have reached our goal. We still believe the project has potential and should not be abandoned. We'we all enjoyed working as a team and learned tons about synthetic biology and the potential this field has feels unlimited! We have had a lot of fun, the life of a scientist is like a rollercoaster of up's and down's but the exitement and curiousity of research will always be a strong motivator!
Official Team Profile
Shiva Moghaddam
Origin of replication: Ahvaz, Iran
Academic background: Graduated in Molecular Medicine
Responsebilities: Participate in Vesicle Isolation project
Other interests: swimming, baking, cooking and making LB media ;)
Funfact:
Ingrid Fadum Kjønstad
Origin of replication: Eidsvoll, Norway
Academic background: Bachelor in Biochemestry, 5th year Master of Molecular Medicine
Responsebilities: PCR and Gibson
Other interests:Cooking, movies, boyfriend, cabin-trips, drawing.
Funfact: Addicted to nailpolish.
Patricia Adl
Origin of replication:Tehran, Iran
Academic background: I got my bachelor in my home country in Physics Engineering-Plasma and my master in Medical Technology-Biophysics and Medical Physics at NTNU
Responsebilities:Participate in Vesicle Isolation Project
Other interests: Jogging, Reading, Shopping, Baking, Cooking
Funfact:
Maria Karoline Andersen
Origin of replication: Bleik, Norway
Academic background: third year of the 5-year Biotechnology mastersprogram
Responsebilities: establishment of vesicle isolation protocole, primer design and making cupcakes for the team that one time.
Other interests: swimming, hiking, making food, watching cat videos on youtube and buying/collecting pretty dresses that I almost never get to wear (all postive to the arrangement of a fancy iGEM-party with a formal dress code!).
Funfact: I once ate a three course lunch with the King and Queen of Norway.
Ellen Stormo
Origin of replication: Averøy, Norway
Academic background: fourth year of the 5-year Biotechnology mastersprogram
Responsebilities:PCR, cloning and wiki
Other interests: jogging, reading
Funfact:
Eivind Almaas
Origin of replication: Stavanger, Norway
Area of expertise: Systems biology and network analysis
Responsebilities: Team organization and Computer modelling.
Other interests: Hiking, reading, living.
Funfact: Big fan of 50's Rock'n Roll and Rockabilly.
Rahmi Lale
Origin of replication: Cologne, Germany
Area of expertise: Transcriptional and translational regulation of bacterial gene expression, metabolic engineering. Metagenome/biodiscovery.
Responsebilities: Herding the nerds!
Other interests: Loves playing bass, likes biking/hiking/skiing/fishing/sailing, into web/graphic design.
Funfact: He loves bugs so much that he makes his own kefir.
Martin Hohmann-Marriott
Origin of replication: Mannheim, Germany
Area of expertise: Photosynthesis, bioenergetics, molecular biology.
Responsebilities: Instructor, molecular biology and physiology.
Other interests: My family, history, all things computer and technology.
Funfact: Martin designed exercise equipment for ants as an undergraduate.
Gunvor Røkke
Origin of replication: Trondheim, Norway
Area of expertise: Chemical engineering and biochemistry. Previous team member experience.
Responsebilities: Labtraining and suporvising.
Other interests: Mainly playing the violin. I have been playing since I was five years old, and I am currently leading one of the three folk music orchestras in Trondheim. I also like to swim, or to gab with my friends.
Funfact: I'm able to whistle and hum in two part harmony with myself. And no, I'm not mutated.
