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Niels Dammes

• Alias: Bammes, Klammes, Vlammes,
• Age: 22
• Nationality: Dutch
• Study: Msc Medical Biotechnology
• Reason to join iGEM: Explore the secrets of nature and use the enormous capacity of my creativity and curiosity.
• Role within iGEM: Assisting the team
• Height: 1.92 m
• Weight: 75 kg
• Shoe size: 45
• Favourite radio station during Lab work: Slam FM/Veronica
• Favourite song during Lab work: Queen – Breakthru
• Favourite Lab Job: Putting a finished PCR plate after a shitload of pipetting work finally in the PCR machine
• Favourite Lab anecdote: I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
• Favourite Lab apparatus: Centrifuge
• Favourite hot drink: Coffee
• Favourite cold drink: Beer
• Favourite food: Steak
• Most proudest achievement: Successfully performed a BiFC assay in Tobacco leaves
• Favourite quote: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit” Aristotle