Our Team
Team members
Martina Curcio
Team LeaderLoves to answer questions with counterquestions and cannot sleep without socks on.
Nathalie Weibel
Wet Lab LeadFailed many times trying to close the -80°C freezer.
Gabriel Cervera
Wet LabCould deadlift the equivalent of ~840 Prix Garantie Tofu blocks but will probably eat them raw first.
Lea Brüllmann
Wet LabHas been hit on the head by a frisbee/ball at every team event.
Jana Mehdy
Wet LabListens to true crime podcasts to fall asleep.
Marine Mausy
Wet LabEstablished new methods of moving around in the lab without having to stand up as she hurt her foot.
Len Roth
Human Practices LeadLoves doing drone shots at 6 in the morning and still owes us a coffee.
Tamara Flury
Human PracticesWas blamed for every pipeline failure during wiki sessions. AKA trusty Tämmy.
Valerie Pecina
Human PracticesLikes to buy overpriced fresh orange juice and is afraid of sponges.
Atilla Schreiber
Dry Lab LeadShares a birthday with Harry Potter. Can't do magic, but is funny sometimes.
Andreas Meyer
Dry LabIs a real one: takes his BeReal posts on the toilet. Repulsed by buttons.
Kim Starlinger
Dry LabCannot produce her own insulin but is a real expert when it comes to killing off her beta islet cells.
Principal investigators and instructors
Prof. Dr. Markus Seeger
Head of the Seeger Lab at the Institute of Medical Microbiology, investigating membrane transport processes in pathogenic bacteria and developing innovative protein engineering tools.
Prof. Dr. Martin Jinek
Head of the Jinek Group at the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Zurich. Expert in RNA Biology and Genome Editing.
Prof. Dr. Cyril Zipfel
Module coordinator of the iGEM Team at University of Zurich. Head and expert of Molecular and Cellular Plant Physiology at the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology.
Cauã Westmann
PhD Candidate at the University of Zurich in Evolutionary Systems and Synthetic Biology. iGEM expert and mentor to the whole team.
Kenny Jungfer
PhD Candidate at the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Zurich.
Fabian Ackle
PhD candidate at the Institute of Medical Microbiology at the University of Zurich.
Jennifer Earp
PhD candidate at the Institute of Medical Microbiology at the University of Zurich.
Advisors
Jan Dernič
PhD candidate at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Zurich.
Timothy Kurrer
Master student in Neural Systems and Computation at the University of Zurich. Former member of iGEM UZurich 2020.
Christian Andres Ramos Uria
PhD candidate at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Zurich.
Yen way Isabell Trinh
MSc in Nanobiology with a passion for science communication and data science. Former member of iGEM TU Delft 2017.