# Meet our team! ## PI || Alexey Shaytan |  || || Place of work: | Bioengineering Department, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University || || Scientific interest: | Engineering biology, computational biology || || Motivation for participation in iGEM: | To motivate students become bioengineers of the 21 century || || Favourite memory about iGEM '21: | Suddenly we have seven iGEM teams in Russia this year! Two years ago we had only one || ## Instructor || Petr Zaytsev |  || || Place of study / work: | PhD student at Bioengineering Department, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University || || Scientific interest: | My scientific interest are application and integration of the synthetic biology approaches in the field of microalgae biotechnology || || Motivation for participation in iGEM: | I am looking for establishing an efficient way for students to learn synthetic biology through participation in scientific project competitions || || Favourite memory about iGEM '21: | The moment I realized that there are more teams and people from Russia willing to participate in iGEM this year || ## Team leaders || Anton Agapov | || || Place of study / work: | LMSU, Faculty of Biotechnology; Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Laboratory of extremophilic procaryotic metabolisms || || Scientific interest: | Extremophilic organism physiology and engineering || || Motivation for participation in iGEM: | I decided to gather a team for the iGEM project to get to thick outside of the box; to take a grasp of the real world; to try to do good for the society and humanity. As none of us have any iGEM experience, it was a kind of an experiment, and I am thrilled to see how it all turned out. Despite not all things went successfully, I will definitely put my effort into further development of the project. || || Favourite memory about iGEM '21: | The arrival of live meetings! They were so awesome and productive after the online ones, and all of the team members were excited to see each other and to brainstorm jointly. Looking back, the majority of the right decisions were made in person, and I wish that we could have met more often. || || Lidia Bobrovnikova |  || || Place of study / work: | LMSU, Faculty of Biotechnology; IPPRAS, Laboratory of microalgae ecophysiology || || Scientific interest: | Genomic and epigenomic regulation, plant physiology, microalgae || || Motivation for participation in iGEM:| In retrospect, I can say that iGEM does provide every participant with unique experience. I believe that even though we weren't able to achieve all the primary goals, we were able to make a huge progress and collect a comprehensive basis for the upcoming LMSU teams. Having no background we were able to make our idea so well-known and successful and that says for itself. || || Favourite memory about iGEM '21: | Having a team meeting with pizza at the pond after a long period of quarantine on a sunny and warm evening || ## Team members || Andrei Kalinichenko |  || || Place of study / work: | LMSU, Faculty of Biology, Department of Biochemistry; IBCRAS Group of RedOx biology || || Scientific interest: | neuroscience, metabolic engineering || || Motivation for participation in iGEM:| Have fun :) || || Favourite memory about iGEM '21: | Is it really necessary? || || Karina Araslanova |  || || Place of study / work: | LMSU, Faculty of Biology, Department of Embryology || || Scientific interest: | Development and regeneration studies || || Motivation for participation in iGEM:| To learn how to combine research and presentation of my work. I was attracted by the opportunity to visualise science and popularise science. I wanted to develop my skills of team work, decision making and delegation. Personally, it was a challenge for me to come out of my comfort zone and aim to a huge goal. || || Favourite memory about iGEM '21: | When we met at pond, ate pizza, discussed our plans and current duties and played with Andrei's dog! It was a wonderful weather that day! And also I love a memory about our final idea choice: me, Anton and Lidia attended a team meeting while we were alpine skiing 🙂 || || Alexandr Modestov |  || || Place of study / work: | I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University) || || Scientific interest: | Genome editing and assembling, drug-design, stem cells technologies, evolutionary biology, diagnostics of genetic disorders, nanotechnologies and nano materials for tissue engineering and delivery systems || || Motivation for participation in iGEM:| I wanted to acquire an experience of work in team of motivated young people with different background and interests and become a part of a thought mechanism. I also wanted to contribute the development of a huge project which will ultimately reach the iGEM final and become a proper product one day. Practically speaking, I had never faced with BioBricks standards and synbio and molecular dynamics methods (e.g. GROMACS) before iGEM so I also planned to fill my arsenal of methods with these ones. || || Favourite memory about iGEM '21: | Presenting our project at the international festival Yuri's night devoted to the anniversary celebration of the first flight of a man to space! || || Artem Stetoy |  || || Place of study / work: | LMSU, Faculty of Biotechnology || || Scientific interest: | Bioengineering, biochemistry || || Motivation for participation in iGEM:| Develop a biological project using bioengineering. Work in the team of young and motivated scientists. Winning a huge competition in biology and bioengineering:) || || Favourite memory about iGEM '21: | First offline team meeting and work in scientific institute || || Alexey Sheshukov |  || || Place of study / work: | LMSU, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics; Yandex backend || || Scientific interest: | Backend development, natural language processing || || Motivation for participation in iGEM:| Wanted to help my friends with programming part of project || || Favourite memory about iGEM '21: | Online meetings and discussion about project || || Ivan Kozin |  || || Place of study / work: | LMSU, Faculty of Biotechnology || || Scientific interest: | Bioinformatics, cytology, embryology, IT, space exploration || || Motivation for participation in iGEM:| Acquiring of team-work and practical experience, networking || || Favourite memory about iGEM '21: | Meeting and presentation at Yuri's night (Going to a bar with my peers) || || Anastasia Novitskaya |  || || Place of study / work: | LMSU, Faculty of Biology, Department of Higher nervous function || || Scientific interest: | Neurophysiology of memory|| || Motivation for participation in iGEM:| I wanted to do what I am passionate about and also contribute the project development. Besides, I wanted to become more acquainted with the international scientific community and get closer to my peers. || || Favourite memory about iGEM '21: | When my team-leader said, that they had been searching for a team-member like me || || Veronika Katrukha |  || || Place of study / work: | LMSU, Faculty of Biology, Department of Biochemistry || || Scientific interest: | Protein sensors || || Motivation for participation in iGEM:| Try something new || || Favourite memory about iGEM '21: | Going all together to Japanese cafe after team meeting|| || Ilya Rubinstein |  || || Place of study / work: | LMSU, Faculty of Biotechnology || || Scientific interest: | Bioengineering, genetic engineering || || Motivation for participation in iGEM:| I've always wanted to take part in space related project. And iGEM gave me this opportunity :) || || Favourite memory about iGEM '21: | The exact moment you realise that you've succeeded in experiment. And team meetings. || || Mikhail Polkovnichenko |  || || Place of study / work: | LMSU, Faculty of Chemistry; N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry || || Scientific interest: | Chemistry, math, physics|| || Motivation for participation in iGEM:| New experience || || Favourite memory about iGEM '21: | Yuri's night || || Tamara Loseva |  || || Place of study / work: | LMSU, Faculty of Biology, Department of Molecular biology || || Scientific interest: | Immunology, epigenetics and transcription, biotechnology || || Motivation for participation in iGEM:| Creating something from scratch. Working as a team. Engagement in a world-famous contest. || || Favourite memory about iGEM '21: | When we were interviewing a Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky. ||
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