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IvyMaker-China is a diverse group with members from multiple schools that aims to raise awareness in an entertaining and educational manner. While the scientific component of our research is unquestionably crucial, we also prefer to emphasize the communities and connections within our team as well as those with other teams. This page is devoted to all of our diligent members who put in a full year of labor in terms of research, experimentation, analysis, education, and other activities. To find out more about our members, click on the profiles!

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Members

(In Alphabetical Order)
Avatar of Aiqi LuoAvatar of Aiqi Luo

Aiqi Luo

Team LeaderModel LeaderWet Lab Vice Leader
Secret Identity: Serine(obviously)
Mission: Currently mutating for a stop codon because I will talk nonsense :)
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Angelina Chen

Secret Identity: Amino (amino=Angie in Chinese, in short for Angelina)
Mission: Seeking genetic modifications so I can swim like a dolphin
Avatar of Caitlin ZhangAvatar of Caitlin Zhang

Caitlin Zhang

Secret Identity: Glycine (a unique amino acid that lacks a sidechain, making it the most flexible amino acid)
Mission: Constantly adapting to different people and new environments.
Avatar of Haocheng TengAvatar of Haocheng Teng

Haocheng Teng

Team Vice LeaderHuman Practice Leader
Secret Identity: Oxygen (free, kind to anybody)
Mission: Make friends constantly and try to learn about them
Avatar of He ZhangAvatar of He Zhang

He Zhang

Secret Identity: Neurotransmitters
Mission: Depending on my level of fluctuation, I activate different parts of my brain that are responsible for different emotions, or activate parts of my brain that trigger autonomic nervous system stimulation.
Avatar of Jaden NgAvatar of Jaden Ng

Jaden Ng

Secret Identity: Alpha cell
Mission: Producing glucagon to regulate excess glucose levels (a glorified way of saying ‘preventing death by heart failure’)
Avatar of Jianyuan WangAvatar of Jianyuan Wang

Jianyuan Wang

Human Practice Vice LeaderCommunication Vice leader
Secret Identity: Succinyl CoA
Mission: Producing the most (energy) in citric acid cycle!
Avatar of Jingyue WangAvatar of Jingyue Wang

Jingyue Wang

Art Design Leader
Secret Identity: Leucine
Mission: Synthesizing myofibrillar muscle protein (scientific knowledge) and use it to speed up the motion of skeletal muscles (society)
Avatar of Lichang WangAvatar of Lichang Wang

Lichang Wang

Secret Identity: Helium (not active)
Mission: Want to try more things that I have never tried before
Avatar of Linhan LuAvatar of Linhan Lu

Linhan Lu

Secret Identity: Ribosome
Mission: Always creating proteins randomly
Avatar of Manlin ZhangAvatar of Manlin Zhang

Manlin Zhang

Secret Identity: Polymerase
Mission: Making DNA and RNA
Avatar of Qing ShiAvatar of Qing Shi

Qing Shi

Secret Identity: PETase
Mission: Degrade PET
Avatar of Sophia LiuAvatar of Sophia Liu

Sophia Liu

Secret Identity: Sucrase
Mission: Responsible for the digestion of sucrose into glucose and fructose, and maltose into glucose. responsible, helps others.
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Sophia Song

Education Leader
Secret Identity: DNA Ligase
Mission: Matchmaking DNA double helix strands
Avatar of Wally WuAvatar of Wally Wu

Wally Wu

Secret Identity: Carbon (can’t live without me!)
Mission: Explore and make friends as their absolute nessary
Avatar of Xinyuan ChenAvatar of Xinyuan Chen

Xinyuan Chen

Secret Identity: Cell, the basic unit of the human body, seems small and numerous, but maintains a larger body than itself.
Mission: Top secret but keep the journey on
Avatar of Xuan LiAvatar of Xuan Li

Xuan Li

Secret Identity: Melatonin
Mission: Sleeping, the happiest thing for me (the drowsiness/sleepiness is mainly provided by melatonin)
Avatar of Yichen GaoAvatar of Yichen Gao

Yichen Gao

Communication Leader
Secret Identity: Ethanol (sounds like Yichen in Chinese)
Mission: With a noble dedicated spirit, I’m currently struggling to burn myself to illuminate the future of humankind (ethanol biofuels)
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Yifei Zhou

Wet Lab Leader
Secret Identity: Brain because it is awesome and mysterious
Mission: I'm soul-searching by myself, trying to figure out what am I doing as a part in human organ
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Yihan Jiang

Art Design Vice LeaderEducation Vice LeaderModel Vice Leader
Secret Identity: NAD+
Mission: participate in every breath, glad to lose electrons to facilitate respiration (seems like to be nothing but is actually helpful and essential)
Avatar of Yixin SunnzhangAvatar of Yixin Sunnzhang

Yixin Sunnzhang

Secret Identity: Enzyme catalase (which is the most effective catalyst of all, it is used to catalyzes the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen.)
Mission: Always produce things in the most efficient and organised way (works as an accelerator)
Avatar of Yixuan YangAvatar of Yixuan Yang

Yixuan Yang

Secret Identity: WBCs
Mission: Special agents sent by immune system, we find the bacteria and trigger the immune response
Avatar of Yong DingAvatar of Yong Ding

Yong Ding

Secret Identity: Carbon because 90% of substance in the nature have me.
Mission: Really good at socializing
Avatar of Yunhan ChenAvatar of Yunhan Chen

Yunhan Chen

Secret Identity: Carbon because 90% of substance in the nature have me.
Mission: Really good at socializing

Adivisors

Ying ZhangJiahua FangHannah Tian

Instructors

Yuanyuan XiaHaibing Zhang

PIs

Jing Zhou (Primary PI)Hongying Liu (Secondary PI)