Hobbies: I love taking care of challenging houseplants. I’m currently learning to play piano and guitar. I love cooking rather spicy food and on a sunny day you can find me inside getting sunlight from my window and reading a book that has piqued my interest.
Hobbies: Playing guitar, listening to guitar, reading about guitars, buying guitars, looking at guitars, playing the four string guitar (bass), hiking, cooking
Hobbies: Learning about linguistics and history, moshing out to hardcore punk
Name: Serafina
Age: 21
Degree: Biological Sciences (Hons Biochemistry)
Where am I from: Indonesia
Role: Team Player
Hobbies: Hobbies: I play Honkai Impact 3rd daily. I love visiting the lochs in Holyrood Park, watching live orchestras, eating Japanese food (I’ll never say no to salmon sashimi), reading and drawing. Also, I always mix all the condiments together in every Asian buffet/hotpot restaurant because I can and couldn’t care less about choosing.
Name: Diana
Age: 21
Degree: Biological Sciences (Hons Biotechnology)
Where am I from: Mozambique
Role: Team Player
Hobbies: I enjoy playing the saxophone – jazz of course (am I good at improvising though? Not at all...) I also enjoy running and recently have gotten into salsa dancing (okay I went to like 1 class... but I really want to continue!) I think Scottish ceilidhs are underrated, if you haven’t ever gone to one, you should go! I love a good sunny day at the beach (I know, I made such a great choice when coming to Scotland, right?) and my favourite colour is turmeric.
Name: Will
Age: 22
Degree: Biological Sciences (Hons Biotechnology)
Where am I from: U.K.
Role: Team Player
Hobbies: I love to play guitar and when I have enough time, I also like to go fishing. I am also a massive football fan and support the best club in the world Brentford!
Hobbies: Lab works (Gimme a lab, gimme a work, I can do this all day), Handcraft (hand magic but NO art sense), Mountain climbing (the only exercise that keeps me alive).
Name: Luna
Age: 21
Degree: Biological Sciences (Hons Biotechnology)
Where am I from: China
Role: Team Player
Hobbies: I love drawing pictures (which drives to illustration and graphic design), that why the most I can contribute to our team is the Logo and wiki design (and that has been challenging!). Besides of that, I love reading and outdoor activities. I also play kendo which is a Japanese martial art and running on the road of profession further and further.
UHAS
Name: Darlington Acquah
I'm Darlington Acquah from Ghana. I had both my basic and secondary education in Ghana in Accra and Cape Coast respectively. I like to challenge myself with worthwhile tasks.
Age: 20
Degree: BSc Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Where am I from: Ghana
Role: Team Player
Hobbies: Reading, singing, reading scientific journals and looking for interesting science facts especially about the universe, watching movies.
Name: Stanley
Hi, I'm Stanley, team member in the Ghanaian wing of Edinburgh-UHAS_Ghana iGEM team. As the lead of the meta-genomics,my experience has been enriched by the sample collection and participation in human practice. I understood what it means to cooperate with like-minded individuals to come up with solutions that has huge impact here in home and abroad tailored to their needs.
Age: 21
Degree: BSc Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Where am I from: Accra, Ghana
Role: Team Player
Hobbies: Reading
Name: Charity Serwaa
I am Charity Serwaa a 3rd year Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology student of UHAS. I am 21 year old ,who comes from Eastern Region of Ghana.I am working under the metagenomics and I'm the leader in Human practice. I enjoy singing, listening to music and reading of novels
Age: 21
Degree: BSc Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Where am I from: Eastern Region, Ghana
Role: Team Player
Supervisors and Advisors
Name: Dr. Nadanai Laohakunakorn
Role: Supervisor
Nadanai is a Chancellor's Fellow in Biotechnology at IQB3 at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the development and programming of cell-free systems for biological protein synthesis. This allows for the rapid, inexpensive and sustainable production of products for healthcare, environmental monitoring and biomanufacturing of chemicals and materials.
Name: Prof. Chris French
Role: Supervisor
Nadanai is a Chancellor's Fellow in Biotechnology at IQB3 at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the development and programming of cell-free systems for biological protein synthesis. This allows for the rapid, inexpensive and sustainable production of products for healthcare, environmental monitoring and biomanufacturing of chemicals and materials.
Name: Arin Wongprommoon
Role: Advisor
Arin Wongprommoon is a Thai PhD researcher working jointly with the Biomolecular Research Group (Dr Diego Oyarzún, Schools of Biological Sciences & Informatics) and Prof Peter Swain (School of Biological Sciences) at the University of Edinburgh. His PhD project studies the metabolic cycle of budding yeast. Arin is an advisor for the Edinburgh-UHAS Ghana iGEM team, focusing on bioinformatics, modelling, and the technical aspects of the Wiki. In his spare time, Arin enjoys hiking and cycling, including doing more of the John Muir Way in central Scotland than he is supposed to within a day.
Name: Michael Stam
Role: Advisor
Michael is a PhD student funded by the CDT in Biomedical AI. He holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh and works on using machine/deep learning for de novo protein design with cell-free systems, in collaboration with Chris Wood's and Nadanai Laohakunakorn's labs at the School of Biological Sciences.
