Team Members

I'm Vienna (Chen Zihan), a senior high school student from YK Pao School. I am the captain of this year's dry team. Everything interests me, and I enjoy discovering new interests. I am passionate about exploring new diets, especially molecular cuisines and the eight major cuisines (Chinese cuisine). iGEM appealed to me because my dream is to start my own biotechnology company. The concept of interdisciplinary subjects interconnected with each other appeals to me as well.

Hi folks, my name is Sophie (Zhang Xinyun), a rising junior at Shanghai YK Pao School. I am the captain of this year's wet team. I'm a biology fanatic who loves studying microbiology and pathology. I want to be an oncologist in the future while also experimenting with various drugs and finding new cures for chronic ailments. Besides academics, I'm also extremely keen on sketching and creating art pieces. Whenever I'm undergoing a nerve-wracking time, I will chill out with my cat and doodle on my diary. I hope I can make meaningful contributions to society in the future while pursuing my artistic career. Thank you to everyone who's reading this.

Hi guys! I'm Isabel Chang, a rising junior from Shanghai YK Pao School and founder/captain of this marvelous team. I have a wide and chaotic range of interests, including (semi) normal ones like playing badminton, dancing and debating and (debatably) crazy ones like drawing mushroom cartoons and recreating musical scenes in my wide, wide imagination. My passion lies within the field of reaching for unreachable dreams and fulfilling insane biology ideas. My aspirations for the future is that I can pursue a path in epidemiology, pathology and genetics (or neuroscience - if I can, that is) and not become someone too trashy. Good bye and good riddance to anyone reading.

Hey there! I'm Momo Chen（Chen Mo）. Currently, I'm a rising junior at YK Pao School. Though the looming question of what I'm passionate about is largely still a huge puzzle. I'm struggling to unwind, I really enjoy music and have a great interest in genomic sciences and economics. I also enjoy delving into the mechanism and underlying principles of things, which explains my current academic interests. Hopefully, I'll be able to take a glimpse into the puzzle of myself and my future through participating in iGEM— the ideal (for me) blend of synthetic biology and business experience.

Hi! I'm Lai Yifei. I'm a rising junior at YK Pao School. iGEM has provided me the opportunity to examine a real-life problem through the lens of synthetic biology. Outside of iGEM, I'm super into neuroscience. I believe that it can direct us to truly interesting questions that are patiently waiting to be answered. I also naively believe in transhumanism and in the transformative power of technology in societal issues. I believe in the power of language and the possibility of breaking free from it through technological means. To anyone reading this, I hope you have a wonderful day.

Hi, I'm Tony (Sun Yuzhe). I'm a 16-year-old student from YK Pao School. I love my school. It's a nice place for studying, eating, and sleeping. I'm interested in Business, and I joined our iGEM team because my friend Potato needs me. She said, "Oh Tony, please join our team and help me." I love to help my friend, so I came! In addition, I learned many new things from my teammates. For example, Vienna told me DeepL is the best translator in the world. So I used that in all of my work. I feel that my English skills are much better than before! However, I definitely wouldn't be able to finish my work without my teammates' help. Thanks to all of them.

Hi everyone! My name is Ashley (Chen Yanyuan), a rising senior from YK Pao School. I would like to major in biology and the pre-med track, and hopefully I could become a medical personnel in the future. This is also why I participated in the iGEM competition. I have founded my own Asclepius Medical Club at school where we talk about current medical events and perform practicals. I also love swimming! I enjoy the serenity under the water when I swim long distances. I am obsessed with learning new things. Currently, I am self-learning French, which is such an interesting language to learn especially when you are learning about numbers. Merci!

Hi! I'm Eddy (LiuLin Chenyang), a 16-year-old high school student from YK Pao School. I'm interested in Biological Science, and that is why I participated in this iGEM competition! Besides that, I am also keen on playing basketball and exploring computer science-related knowledge. In this competition, I mainly participated in the wet lab's tasks. I genuinely enjoyed every step I went through in the laboratory! In addition, I am also responsible for recording and editing the promotion video for our team. In the future, I would like to study Biological Science as my major and computer science as a minor if possible!

Hi! I'm Serena (Deng Miao), a senior high school student from YK Pao School. I am very interested in Biotechnology, especially topics related to disease and cancer. I am always exploring the meaning of myself in this world, hoping to leave my unique footprint. Therefore, my ultimate goal is to dedicate myself to the medical field and try to keep people from suffering from illnesses. Apart from biology, I love playing Guzheng (a Chinese traditional musical instrument) and jazz dancing. I hope I can develop a comprehensive but also whimsical perspective about the subjects around me, so that everything will unfold with a colorful and splendid view.

Hi! I'm Annabeth (Zhang Yifan), a senior at Shanghai YK Pao high school. I consider myself an easygoing and curious person. I like to travel in my free time (I've been to 19 countries so far). I also love to read and watch movies with my friends and family. My interests are distributed in vastly different fields like Biology, Sociology, Criminology, Public Health and Psychology. I decided to participate in iGEM because I'm interested in population health and wanted to be able to contribute to making the world a better place and to come up with a solution to current health problems. Also, I love to be able to work as a team with friends from the same school.

Hi, I'm Susan (Jiang Hao), a rising junior from Shanghai YK Pao School. I'm a bibliophile (sort of) and a soccer lover. I like to explore different genres and I love books that allow you to come up with your interpretation. I also enjoy cooking and consider it as method for relieving stress. I espoused the concept that hard work will eventually pay off. I worked in both the dry team and the wet team, and I'm excited about learning new things during this journey.

Hi everyone! I am Sophia (Xu Yining) from Shanghai, China. Now, I am 16 years and a rising junior at YK Pao School. I will study the IB curriculum soon (pain!!!). I can speak Chinese and English. In my leisure time, I love to read books, watch movies, travel, listen to music, eat delicious food, play musical instruments, and play sports. I attended the iGEM competition because biology is my intended major in university. I feel really excited to work with friends and other professionals. I hope we can all accomplish our goals at the end of our iGEM journey!

Hello everyone! My name is Harry (Han Yixuan), a rising junior from Shanghai YK Pao high school. I love to play basketball, as well as watch NBA to learn useful techniques from athletes. I'm also interested in a variety of sports other than basketball. Environmental problem is a big problem for our generation, and I enjoy exploring these challenges and trying to resolve them. Biology is a thoughtful subject; I would like to dig deeper into this topic and try to combine it with other subjects.

Hi! I'm Jane (Zhang Jingyan), a 16-year-old high school student from Shanghai YK Pao School! People who know me all perceive me as a humorous, easygoing, and optimistic friend. In my free time, I love to explore dystopian novels and anything related to murders and deaths to help me grasp the more unpleasant aspects of our reality. Also, I have a range of different and seemingly unconnected interests - Basketball, Biology, Criminology, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Theatre - and all of them combined are what make me, me.

Hi! I'm Claire (Liu Yiqing), a rising senior from Shanghai YK Pao school! I'm a big fan of biotech and neuroscience, and I like everything related with cross sciences. I'm here at iGEM because it provides me the opportunity to experience sophisticated lab apparatus; more importantly, I discovered the highlights of interdisciplinary sciences in this competition. I'm planning to apply for biology as major and psychology as minor in university.