Team:Berkeley/Team

Robert "Sleepless" Chen is a 3rd year Bioengineering student. He enjoys running, cooking, creating cool science lessons, and finding good places to nap on campus. He is an officer of Berkeley Engineers and Mentors, a science outreach organization, where he gets to teach those lessons. Robert worked on cloning the strains for promoter optimization, designing and constructing the MiCode cloning scheme, and characterizing registry yeast promoter strengths.

Celia "Klepto" Cheung is a 2nd year Bioengineering student. When not in lab, she can be found playing violin during Berkeley Symphony Orchestra rehearsal or working for Berkeley's Biomedical Engineering Society. Celia worked on the wetlab portion of the project, helping with promoter optimization and MiCode creation. She also worked on image acquisition and kickstarted work on our wiki in the middle of the summer.

Thomas "Nucleus" Chow is a 3rd year Bioengineering student looking to a future in bioinformatics. He is the Treasurer of the Bioengineering Honor Society, which he has been a member of for three years. Thomas was primarily involved in the computational side of the project, writing Cell Profiler pipelines to recognize organelles and run the library check. He also helped with the cloning, creating the actin-localization protein we used -- that is, until his computational duties took over.

Austin "Reezy!" Jones is a 4th year Molecular Cell Biology and Environmental Science student. He is involved with Berkeley Model UN and president of the Order of Omega. In his free time, he enjoys swimming, hiking, traveling, and eating strangely-colored chip dips. Austin worked on the wetlab side of the project, developing the cellular periphery signal sequence and constructing then testing the initial batch of leucine zippers. And most importantly, he cloned the parts we sent to the almighty registry.

Harneet "Call Me Maybe" Rishi is a 4th year Chemical Engineering student who loves basketball and watching multiple TV shows simultaneously. He is an officer of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. Harneet was involved in the computational side of the project, where he wrote our Matlab scripts for cell separation. He was also tasked with kicking off our presentation and setting the stage for the rest to follow, losing many nights of sleep over the problem.

Masaki "Illustrator" Yamada is a 4th year Chemical Engineering student. In addition to his studies, he has competed on Berkeley's fencing team for three years, enjoys watching sunsets, and is prone to losing his belongings (wallet in particular). Masaki worked on fluorescence localization, creating the nuclear targeting tag, and on Micode construction later in the project. He created a good deal of the illustrations for our wiki, poster, and presentation.

Vincent "Baller" Yeh is a 4th year Chemical Engineering student who loves basketball. In his free time, he enjoys playing "Call Me Maybe" on Harneet's laptop and poking fun at Lochte during the Olympics. Vincent created the vacuolar membrane targeting protein and worked on the leucine zipper assay, producing the yeast strains that give us many of the pretty pictures in our wiki and presentation.