Team Leaders

Interested:Reading books, surfing the internet, posting videos online.

Motto:Sweet are the uses of adversity. - Shakespeare I hope to learn about the cutting-edge genetic engineering knowledges and how to conduct biological experiments. I also want to practice the leadership and ability to communicate and cooperate with teammates.

Jiayuan Zhang

Chief captain

Interested:Sports

Motto:God helps those who help themselves. I hope to cultivate my professional ability in the field of biology, broaden my horizons, and develop my teamwork ability.

Honghan Li

Wet lab captain

Interested:Air rifle, Wire-inlay enamel, Rap, 2D & 3D art.

Motto:Don't waver from your position without thinking.I want to learn more about bioengineering and genetics through participating in iGEM. Also, it is also a great opportunity for me to practice my team working skills and my ability to communicate with different people and organizations.

Peiqi Qin

Dry lab captain

Student members

Interested:Reading books about biology (animal science, plant science, and genetics), play frisbee and baseball, listening to music

Motto:Be kind to everyone, because you never know what someone else is going through. I hope to learn detailed and in-depth knowledge about synthetic biology, since the course should be gone under university. Also, in my will, a real life experiment in a professioal lab is one of the purpose of joining iGEM project.

Yumin Ao

Interested:Frisbee and Swimming (frisbee is introduced to me by my brother and swimming is an activity I have participated for almost 14 years).

Motto:Believe you can and you're halfway there - Theodore Roosevlet.I want to learn something new.

Yijia Chen

Interested:Volleyball, Piano, Photographing, Doing experiments, Listening to music

Motto:Time flows downstream, life goes upstream.From this project, I would love to learn more about genetic modification in biology and connect it to real life - environment monitoring; biology is my academic interest, so I'm excited to get to know about labs and explore my interest. Looking forward to seeing myself grow in both academics and coorperation from this program!

Yinuo Ding

Interested:Reading some science magazines and watch some videos (especially biology).

Motto:It is the natural law that objects are different.I want to learn some academic knowledge about advanced biology in this project and have a brand view of the subject. Also, I want to do the experiment and improve my personal practical ability.

Xiru He

Interested:War history and engineering

Motto:Learn as you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.I hope that I can improve my cooperative skills and communication skills and most importantly learn about synthetic biology.

Aidan Hengyi Lin

Interested:Psychology, Biology, Fencing, Volleyball, Floorball, kpop music

Motto:All new souls are given unique and individual personalities.It is my great honor to participate in this IGEM competition. I hope I can find what I really love, learn more knowledge and meet more knowledgeable friends!

Yachen Liu

Interested:social interaction, public speech, watch anime, shooting photos

Motto:Self care is the most important thing and I will do everything to build up assurance for every step I take.As we all know igem is a team working competition, and the form is kind of like starting a business. So I hope to become more gentle in terms of dealing with the kinds of people that I don’t usually get along with. Also being able to motivate the one who are lack of self promotion or less opening to others. Also having to improve my public speaking skills to a higher level.

Peiran Ma

Interested:Writing, Worldbuilding, Reading Science Fiction, Card Games

Motto:Investigate before you Instigate.I hope to practice my skills in pragmatic experimentation, researching, reading papers, programming, and collaborating with teams. However, most importantly, I want to do something that actually expands horizons - not only increasing the limits of my own capabilities, but also inventing something that changes the world, as slight as it may be.

Peiyang Tian

Interested:Engineering

Motto:Only road is rugged and without repairing chisel is the road of genius.I hope to looking to exercise my teamwork skills and enhance my engineering expertise.

Ziyan Tong

Interested:Photography, drawing, music, reading

Motto:The highest good is like water. Water benefits everything by giving without taking or contending.I expected to enhance my ability to cooperate with others and to learn in a group. I also wanted to learn more knowledge that is biology related.

Xinyu Xiao

Interested:Dance and food

Motto:Be happy.I want to improve my understanding and my skills on researching.

Junqi Xu

Interested:Swimming, Horse-back riding, Playing the Piano.

Motto:Fight for your passion. I hope to develop my cooperation skills and leading skills, at the same time dig deeper into several different academic subjects.

Yuge Zhang

Interested:Singing, drawing, socializing

Motto:Tomorrow will be better. I hope to enhance my ability in working as a team.

Zilin Zhang

Interested:Playing football, exercise my body, learn biology and read books with horror genre.

Motto:If you work hard, you may not succeed. But if you give up at the very beginning, you definitely won't succeed.I hope to improve my skills in terms of data analyzation, cooperation, communication, reseaching. I also look forward into learn more about synthetic biology.

Jiepu Zong

Team Leaders

PI Ph.D. in Bio-system Engineering, Zhejiang University. Dr. Ruyi Shi is the PI of our team, who is responsible for the guidance of scientific research methods and the work of dry team.

Ruyi Shi Ph.D.

PI

Team secondary PI, M.S. in botany, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Lin is quite experienced in research in the fields of biosystematics and plant molecular biology, especially in plant genetic engineering and is responsible for the iGEM project design and project guidance

Duoqing Lin

Secondary PI

Team instructor Dr. Lei Xue obtained his BS from Beijing University, Ph. D from University of Zurich, received Postdoctoral training at Yale Medical School, and currently serves as a professor in Molecular Genetics at Tongji University. He has used Drosophila as a model organism to study the genetic mechanism of tumor progression and Alzheimer's disease

Lei Xue Ph.D

Instructor

Team instructor Dr. Li Wenzhe obtained her BS from Sichuan University, PH. D from Tongji University, and currently serves as associate professor in Molecular Genetics at Tongji University. She has used Drosophila as a model organism to study the health effect of enviorment pollution.

Wenzhe Li Ph.D

Instructor