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<html lang="en"><head><meta charset="utf-8"/><meta content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1" name="viewport"/><title>Team | UIUC iGEM</title><link href="https://2021.igem.org/Template:UIUC_Illinois/css/teamCSS?action=raw&amp;ctype=text/css" rel="stylesheet"/></head><body><nav class="navbar navbar-expand-xl fixed-top"><div class="container d-flex justify-content-between"><a class="navbar-brand d-lg-inline-block" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois"><span>iGEM </span>UIUC</a><button aria-controls="navbarNav" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation" class="navbar-toggler" data-target="#navbarNav" data-toggle="collapse" type="button"><span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span></button><div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarNav"><ul class="navbar-nav ml-auto"><li class="nav-item dropdown"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#" id="navbarTeamDropdown" role="button">Team</a><div aria-labelledby="navbarTeamDropdown" class="dropdown-menu"><a class="dropdown-item" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois/Team">Team</a><a class="dropdown-item" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois/Attributions">Attributions</a><a class="dropdown-item" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois/Collaborations">Collaborations</a></div></li><li class="nav-item dropdown"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#" id="navbarProjectDropdown" role="button">Project</a><div aria-labelledby="navbarProjectDropdown" class="dropdown-menu"><a class="dropdown-item" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois/Contribution">Contribution</a><a class="dropdown-item" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois/Description">Description</a><a class="dropdown-item" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois/Engineering">Engineering Success</a><a class="dropdown-item" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois/Experiments">Experiments</a><a class="dropdown-item" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois/Model">Model</a><a class="dropdown-item" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois/Notebook">Notebook</a><a class="dropdown-item" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois/Package">Package</a><a class="dropdown-item" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois/Partnership">Partnership</a><a class="dropdown-item" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois/Implementation">Proposed Implementation</a><a class="dropdown-item" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois/Results">Results</a></div></li><li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois/Parts">Parts</a></li><li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois/Safety">Safety</a></li><li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" href="https://2021.igem.org/Team:UIUC_Illinois/Human_Practices">Human Practices</a></li></ul></div><div class="d-flex" id="themeSwitchWrapper"><i class="far fa-sun"></i><div id="themeSwitch"><label class="switch" for="themeSwitchInput"><input id="themeSwitchInput" type="checkbox"/><span class="slider round"></span></label></div><i class="far fa-moon"></i></div></div></nav><header class="d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center"><div class="container"><h1>Meet the UIUC iGEM Team</h1><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/3/35/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team.jpg"/><p class="text-center">UIUC_Illinois 2021 iGEM Team is representing University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 6 Illinis(ILL-INI!)-3 studying Bioengineering, 2 studying Molecular and Cell Biology, 1 studying Integrative Biology-worked on the apPETite project over the summer of 2021. Under the guidance of amazing mentors, the UIUC team worked on creating a better PET degrading enzyme</p></div></header><main><h1>Members</h1><div class="container"><div class="row d-flex justify-content-center"><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/d/d4/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member--cook.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Mary Cook</h5><h6 class="card-title">Senior in Bioengineering</h6><p class="card-text">iGEM has been an amazing experience in that it is student driven research. We had the chance to design our own project with guidance from our mentors and collaborate with other iGEM teams in order to combine research efforts.</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/9/9c/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member--joseph.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Jefrin Joseph</h5><h6 class="card-title">Junior in Molecular Cellular Biology</h6><p class="card-text">iGEM has been a really educational opportunity and has given me a greater appreciation for research and the research process. As opposed to a typical research opportunity where we join onto someone else's pre-existing project, iGEM enables us to design our own project from scratch and become thoroughly immersed in the process.</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/4/4f/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member--lai.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Kristin Lai</h5><h6 class="card-title">Senior in Bioengineering</h6><p class="card-text">iGEM is a truly unique experience and I really enjoyed being a part of the UIUC team this year. I appreciated being able to have a direct impact on the design and implementation of our project—it’s unlike any other research I’ve been involved in.</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/e/e1/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member--narayan.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Suva Narayan</h5><h6 class="card-title">Senior in Bioengineering</h6><p class="card-text">I had a lot of fun being on the drylab team this year and learned a lot of new things that I could utilize in my own future projects. I also really enjoyed looking at how drylab and wetlab processes come together for a singular project despite being so drastically different in nature.</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/3/33/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member--shrestha.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Royal Shrestha</h5><h6 class="card-title">Junior in Molecular and Cellular Biology Honors</h6><p class="card-text">I loved drylab work so much last year that I decided to be part of the wetlab team this year. Lots of great experiences this summer, and the most memorable was coming in at the middle of the night to explore the entire empty research facility!</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/2/2c/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member--yoon.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Angela Yoon</h5><h6 class="card-title">Senior in Integrative Biology</h6><p class="card-text">I rejoined for this year because I love to keep learning new things and meeting passionate people. I am so grateful for the support we get for independent group research projects.</p></div></div></div></div></div><h1>Mentors</h1><div class="container"><div class="row d-flex justify-content-center"><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/1/18/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--mentor--rao.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Dr.Christopher Rao</h5><h6 class="card-title">Primary PI</h6><p class="card-text">Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/e/e8/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--mentor--ryerson.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Daniel Ryerson</h5><h6 class="card-title">Outreach coordinator</h6><p class="card-text">Outreach Activities Coordinator at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/5/52/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--mentor--deewan.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Anshu Deewan</h5><h6 class="card-title">Wetlab Graduate Advisor</h6><p class="card-text">Ph.D. Candidate at Rao Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/a/a1/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--mentor--mahajan.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Tarun Mahajan</h5><h6 class="card-title">Drylab Graduate Advisor</h6><p class="card-text">Graduate Research Assistant at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/6/61/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--mentor--woodruff.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">William Woodruff</h5><h6 class="card-title">Wetlab Graduate Advisor</h6><p class="card-text">Chemical Engineering PhD Student at Rao Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/d/d7/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--mentor--fedders.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Anna Fedders</h5><h6 class="card-title">Research Coordinator</h6><p class="card-text">Research Coordinator at Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation</p></div></div></div></div></div></main><footer><div class="container"><p>Sample template built using the iGEM Wiki Starter Pack by BITS Goa.</p><p>Code released under the MIT license.</p><p>Based on <a href="https://getbootstrap.com">Bootstrap</a> and themes <a href="https://bootswatch.com/flatly/">Flatly</a> and <a href="https://bootswatch.com/darkly/">Darkly</a> from <a href="https://bootswatch.com/">Bootswatch</a>.</p><p>Some content from the <a href="https://2020.igem.org/Team:Example">iGEM Example Wiki</a>. 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Under the guidance of amazing mentors, the UIUC team worked on creating a better PET degrading enzyme</p></div></header><main><h1>Members</h1><div class="container"><div class="row d-flex justify-content-center"><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="mask"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/f/f9/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member-mask-cook.png"/></div><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/d/d4/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member--cook.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Mary Cook</h5><h6 class="card-title">Senior in Bioengineering</h6><p class="card-text">iGEM has been an amazing experience in that it is student driven research. We had the chance to design our own project with guidance from our mentors and collaborate with other iGEM teams in order to combine research efforts.</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="mask"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/6/63/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member-mask-joseph.png"/></div><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/9/9c/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member--joseph.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Jefrin Joseph</h5><h6 class="card-title">Junior in Molecular Cellular Biology</h6><p class="card-text">iGEM has been a really educational opportunity and has given me a greater appreciation for research and the research process. As opposed to a typical research opportunity where we join onto someone else's pre-existing project, iGEM enables us to design our own project from scratch and become thoroughly immersed in the process.</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="mask"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/3/38/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member-mask-lai.png"/></div><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/4/4f/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member--lai.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Kristin Lai</h5><h6 class="card-title">Senior in Bioengineering</h6><p class="card-text">iGEM is a truly unique experience and I really enjoyed being a part of the UIUC team this year. I appreciated being able to have a direct impact on the design and implementation of our project—it’s unlike any other research I’ve been involved in.</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="mask"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/e/e9/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member-mask-narayan.png"/></div><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/e/e1/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member--narayan.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Suva Narayan</h5><h6 class="card-title">Senior in Bioengineering</h6><p class="card-text">I had a lot of fun being on the drylab team this year and learned a lot of new things that I could utilize in my own future projects. I also really enjoyed looking at how drylab and wetlab processes come together for a singular project despite being so drastically different in nature.</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="mask"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/f/f7/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member-mask-shrestha.png"/></div><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/3/33/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member--shrestha.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Royal Shrestha</h5><h6 class="card-title">Junior in Molecular and Cellular Biology Honors</h6><p class="card-text">I loved drylab work so much last year that I decided to be part of the wetlab team this year. Lots of great experiences this summer, and the most memorable was coming in at the middle of the night to explore the entire empty research facility!</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="mask"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/6/6c/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member-mask-yoon.png"/></div><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/2/2c/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--member--yoon.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Angela Yoon</h5><h6 class="card-title">Senior in Integrative Biology</h6><p class="card-text">I rejoined for this year because I love to keep learning new things and meeting passionate people. iGEM enabled me to explore my interest in bioinformatics field. I am so grateful for the support we get for independent group research projects.</p></div></div></div></div></div><h1>Mentors</h1><div class="container"><div class="row d-flex justify-content-center"><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/1/18/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--mentor--rao.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Dr.Christopher Rao</h5><h6 class="card-title">Primary PI</h6><p class="card-text">Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/e/e8/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--mentor--ryerson.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Daniel Ryerson</h5><h6 class="card-title">Outreach coordinator</h6><p class="card-text">Outreach Activities Coordinator at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/5/52/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--mentor--deewan.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Anshu Deewan</h5><h6 class="card-title">Wetlab Graduate Advisor</h6><p class="card-text">Ph.D. Candidate at Rao Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/a/a1/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--mentor--mahajan.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Tarun Mahajan</h5><h6 class="card-title">Drylab Graduate Advisor</h6><p class="card-text">Graduate Research Assistant at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/6/61/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--mentor--woodruff.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">William Woodruff</h5><h6 class="card-title">Wetlab Graduate Advisor</h6><p class="card-text">Chemical Engineering PhD Student at Rao Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</p></div></div></div><div class="col-xl-3 col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-xs-12"><div class="card"><div class="card-img-top"><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/d/d7/T--UIUC_Illinois--img--Team--mentor--fedders.png"/></div><div class="card-body"><h5 class="card-title">Anna Fedders</h5><h6 class="card-title">Research Coordinator</h6><p class="card-text">Research Coordinator at Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation</p></div></div></div></div></div></main><footer><div class="container"><div class="row justify-content-center"><div id="footerTeamLogo"></div><div id="UIUCLogo"></div><div id="CABBILogo"></div><div id="IGBLogo"></div></div><p>iGEM UIUC_Illinois</p><p>Email: <a href="mailto:igembitsgoa@gmail.com">illinoisigem@gmail.com</a></p><p>Headquarter: <a href="https://www.igb.illinois.edu/">Carl R. 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Team | UIUC iGEM

Meet the UIUC iGEM Team

UIUC_Illinois 2021 iGEM Team is representing University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 6 Illinis(ILL-INI!)-3 studying Bioengineering, 2 studying Molecular and Cell Biology, 1 studying Integrative Biology-worked on the apPETite project over the summer of 2021. Under the guidance of amazing mentors, the UIUC team worked on creating a better PET degrading enzyme

Members

Mary Cook
Senior in Bioengineering

iGEM has been an amazing experience in that it is student driven research. We had the chance to design our own project with guidance from our mentors and collaborate with other iGEM teams in order to combine research efforts.

Jefrin Joseph
Junior in Molecular Cellular Biology

iGEM has been a really educational opportunity and has given me a greater appreciation for research and the research process. As opposed to a typical research opportunity where we join onto someone else's pre-existing project, iGEM enables us to design our own project from scratch and become thoroughly immersed in the process.

Kristin Lai
Senior in Bioengineering

iGEM is a truly unique experience and I really enjoyed being a part of the UIUC team this year. I appreciated being able to have a direct impact on the design and implementation of our project—it’s unlike any other research I’ve been involved in.

Suva Narayan
Senior in Bioengineering

I had a lot of fun being on the drylab team this year and learned a lot of new things that I could utilize in my own future projects. I also really enjoyed looking at how drylab and wetlab processes come together for a singular project despite being so drastically different in nature.

Royal Shrestha
Junior in Molecular and Cellular Biology Honors

I loved drylab work so much last year that I decided to be part of the wetlab team this year. Lots of great experiences this summer, and the most memorable was coming in at the middle of the night to explore the entire empty research facility!

Angela Yoon
Senior in Integrative Biology

I rejoined for this year because I love to keep learning new things and meeting passionate people. iGEM enabled me to explore my interest in bioinformatics field. I am so grateful for the support we get for independent group research projects.

Mentors

Dr.Christopher Rao
Primary PI

Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Daniel Ryerson
Outreach coordinator

Outreach Activities Coordinator at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Anshu Deewan
Wetlab Graduate Advisor

Ph.D. Candidate at Rao Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tarun Mahajan
Drylab Graduate Advisor

Graduate Research Assistant at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

William Woodruff
Wetlab Graduate Advisor

Chemical Engineering PhD Student at Rao Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Anna Fedders
Research Coordinator

Research Coordinator at Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation