Team:MTU-CORK/Support Team
Dr. Venkata Vamsi BY
Role on the team: Instructor
Field of interest: Synthetic biology and business
Fun fact: I can read and write 5 languages
Favourite part of IGEM: Science and Communication
Dr. Ganga Chinna Rao Devarapu
Role on the team: Secondary PI, CAD design of BioFrags and 3D-printing, outreach
Field of interest: Physics, Photonics, Synthetic Biology, Opensource Hardware
Fun fact: Loves light
Favourite part of IGEM: Hardware, particularly design of the BioFrags and their 3D-printing
Dr. Uday Gowda
Degree: PhD in Physics
Role on the team: Advisor, 3D printing, Technical support
Fun fact: Has travelled to over 40 countries, ambidextrous
Fav cuisine: International vegetarian
Field: Physics, Photonics, Opensource Hardware
Susan Enright
Degree: MSc in Biological Sciences, BSc in Biochemistry.
Role on the team: Instructor
Favourite part of IGEM: Seeing how the team's ideas developed and evolved.
Favourite cuisine: Italian
Dr. Liam Lewis
Role on the team: CAPPA Centre Manager, Funding Support and project management.
Fun fact: Once won a prize for guessing smells!
Degree: PhD Microelectronic Engineering, MSc and BSc Physics
Favourite cuisine: Irish meats, steak, lamb and pork
Favourite part of IGEM: Encouraging cross discipline research with exciting people and solving real
world problem through collaboration
Professor Jim O'Mahony
Role on the team: Academic advisor
Field of Interest: Biotechnology
Fun Fact: I was a national hammer throwing champion
Favourite Cuisine: Asian
Favourite part of IGEM: Watching student’s develop an idea in a real world environment.
Audrey Masi
Role on the team:Mentor
My field of interest: The design of bioprocesses. I like to research the natural talent of microorganisms and study the interaction between the manufacturing environment and the microorganism to produce compounds of interest especially for health purposes.
Favourite part of IGEM: Discovering the diversity of ideas teams have came up with.
Fun fact: When I need to find a solution to a problem occurring in a process, I try to imagine I am a microorganism
Dan Keaney
Role on the team: Mentor
Field of interest: Microbiology, Exobiology, design.
Fun fact: Loves the art of design
Favorite part of IGEM: Helping design experimental plans, mentoring the team and the creative design elements.
Dr. Eilish Broderick
Role on the team: PI, Academic advisor
Favourite part of IGEM: Cross disciplinary teams working together, developing scientific and communication skills
Dr. William Whelan Curtin
Role on the team:PI
Field of Interest:Physics
Fun fact: Been concussed three times and had amnesia once
Favourite part: Mars