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From 2012.igem.org

Mark van Veen

• Alias: Speedoman
• Age: 23
• Nationality: Nederlands
• Study: Bachelor Biotechnology
• Reason to join iGEM: To gain knowledge and to contribute to the best team of 2012
• Role within iGEM: Jack-of-all-Trades, the self proclaimed supreme leader of the wiki, the DLS and FPLC caretaker
• Height: 1.99 m
• Weight: 90 kg
• Shoe size: 48
• Favourite radio station during Lab work: Classic FM
• Favourite song during Lab work: WAR! by Edwin Starr
• Favourite Lab Job: Ultracentrifugation, after a week hard work, seeing finally results
• Favourite Lab anecdote: we are developing a "flubby flubby thingy thingy" 5 hours before the wiki dead line
• Favourite Lab apparatus: EM
• Favourite hot drink: Irish Coffee
• Favourite cold drink: Beer
• Favourite food: everything that is eatable
• Most proudest achievement: Being a married man
• Favourite quote: "I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale." Marie Curie