Team:IvyMaker-China/Team

IvyMaker-China Team Page

Introduction

With members from a wide variety of schools, IvyMaker-China is a diverse team that strives to spread awareness in an educated and fun way! Although the science aspect of our project is definitely important, we also like to focus on communities and connections, whether it’s between the members or with other teams. This page is dedicated to all of our hardworking members, who spent a whole year researching, experimenting, analyzing, educating, and more. Click on the personalized yeast baby profiles to learn more about our members!

Members (In Alphabetical Order)

Albert Ma

Vice Leader;Education and Communication Leader

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: to explore genetic engineering/possible career paths and get hands on experience

Fun Facts: I play soccer

Bowen Jiang

Model Leader

City: Beijing

Why iGEM: to explore bio synthetic techniques and design/conduct an innovative experiment

Fun Facts: I love listening to Chopin and Jay Chou

Bowen Lou

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: try to learn more about biology and to find interest

Fun Facts: I always try my best to stay at home

Daniel Li

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: to be able to understand synthetic bio has become one of the biggest interest I had as I stepped into the world of bio

Fun Facts: Make a guess

Daniel Xiao

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: to deepen and better my interest and understanding in various topics in biology through labwork and project design

Fun Facts: More people die from coconuts than from sharks

Hannah Tian

Vice Leader;Art and Design Leader

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: to learn more about biology and be able to do some experiments

Fun Facts: I love doodling and playing sports

Haoyang Zhou (Alex)

Team Leader

City: Shanghai/Concord

Why iGEM: Multidimensional

Fun Facts: Grapes are only Okay

Jonathan Ji

Wet Lab Leader

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: to make new friends and find if I am interested in biology

Fun Facts: I drink only one bottle of cola per year in average

Jingdong Wu (Tom)

Model Leader + Research Leader

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: to make new friends and find if I am interested in biology

Fun Facts: I drink only one bottle of cola per year in average

Jianan Wang (Leech)

Wet Lab Leader

City: Suzhou

Why iGEM: to explore synthetic biology

Fun Facts: My favourite animation is Ghost In the SHELL

Jiachang Zhang (Jennifer)

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: to gain useful experience from teamwork and experiments

Fun Facts: I'm a shopaholic

Liyuan Chen (Eric)

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: I’m pretty interested in biology and also having a good resume when I apply for college

Fun Facts: I have 4 dogs and 4 cats

Ruoyi Rebecca Tu

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: to explore and understand synthetic biology better

Fun Facts: I enjoy snowboarding

Ruoni Elizabeth Tu

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: to investigate the techniques of synthetic biology and genetic engineering and further explore my passion for different curriculums of STEM

Fun Facts: I enjoy learning economics, playing the flute, and participating in the student council to organize activities for the senior students

Shuo Geng (Alex)

Vice Leader; Human Practice Leader

City: Hangzhou

Why iGEM: to further enrich my passion for synthetic polymer and it's correlation with the environment

Fun Facts: I really really like grapes

Tianle Xu (Tim)

City: Beijing

Why iGEM: very promising domain in biology which I definitely want to explore more about

Fun Facts: Perfect pitch I do have

Yun Cao (Gaby)

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: to have a better understanding about synthetic biology

Fun Facts: I like masks a lot

Yu Ding

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: to explore more of my interest on biology application

Fun Facts: I like math and art!

Yuxiang Lee (Marcus)

Wet Lab Leader

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: I would like to find a job that's Biology and Chemistry I related in the future

Fun Facts: I have played icehockey for 10 years

Yiwen Wang (Ariel)

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: to accumulate some experiences with experiments and lay my hands on apparatus that I'm not allowed to touch in other laboratories

Fun Facts: I play poker cards really well

Yingjia Yang (Helen)

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: Combination of chemistry and biology is quite interesting and I want to explore more about synthetic biology

Fun Facts: I love skateboarding

Yunbo Zhou (Gaster)

City: Suzhou

Why iGEM: to learn new things about biology

Fun Facts: I like turtles, and I have 7 turtles now!

Zining Jin (Isabella)

City: Shenzhen

Why iGEM: It is interesting, and I want to dive deeper into synthetic biology

Fun Facts: I love video games

Zirui Zhu (Julie)

Education and Communication Leader

City: Shanghai

Why iGEM: to further investigate in the field I love and make firm my conviction for biology

Fun Facts: I have 1 cat, 2 bunnies, 2 parrots,2 hamsters, 1 duck and two turtles at my house

Advisors

Ying Zhang
Haibing Zhang

Instructors

Yuanyuan Xia
Douglas Jiang

PIs

Jing Zhou (Primary PI)
Rui Guo （Secondary PI)

We investigate, we innovate, we verify, we are IvyMaker-China!