Team · Members
Meet Our Team
This page is dedicated to introducing the individuals who made our iGEM project possible. Here, you'll find information about our team members, instructors, and advisors
Our Team
Team Co-Captains
Bernice Wang
Team Co-Captain
My name is Bernice Wang, and I’m in my sophomore year. I enjoy travelling, hanging out with my friends, and hunting for food spots. I’m interested in finance and business, which is why I am on the human practices team in iGEM.
Liz Huang
Team Co-Captain
Hello! My name is Liz, and I am entering my sophomore year. As a team leader for iGEM, I guide the team to win the prize. I enjoy dancing, playing the piano, reading, singing, traveling, and hanging out with people, which is the reason why I chose to be a part of the Human Practices team. Since I want to learn more about synthetic biology, I joined the iGEM team!
Wet Lab Lead
Candice Hsueh
Wet Lab Lead
My name is Candice Hsueh and I am a junior at Morrison Academy Taipei. I have many hobbies such as drawing or playing volleyball or hanging out with friends which I often do in my free time. Academically, I am also interested in biology among other interests. I officially took a biology course back in ninth grade but I have always had an interest in learning about how living things work, which motivated me to join Wetlab in this iGEM team.
Wet Lab Members
Davion Lee
Wet Lab
Hi, my name is Davion, and I’m a sophomore at Kang Chiao International School, Linkou Campus. I’m currently part of the wet lab team. I'm more into marine bio stuff rather than straight bio because I do sailing and fishing as a hobby. Also, I’m really into music and sports. I play drums in my school band and listen to music a lot, while playing basketball and taekwondo, but I enjoy trying other sports too I guess. I also like reading comics, watching anime, and SOMETIMES spending time with friends.
Jacquelyn Liu
Wet Lab
I am interested in sports such as volleyball and basketball. One of my favorite things to do is roaming around the streets of Taipei trying to find cool cafes or food spots.
Hector Chan
Wet Lab
I enjoy the lab work, especially PCR, gel electrophoresis, cloning, and purifying samples. I feel this experience helped me prepare for my AP Biology.
Oscar Ho
Wet Lab
Hi I am Oscar, I am a freshman at Kang Chiao International School. I like to play chess in my free time and I love to debate. I am on AEI’s iGEM team and am excited about it because I love doing lab experiments.
Sophia Hsu
Wet Lab
My name is Sophia Hsu, a freshman in high school. I’m interested in biology and experiments, which is why I joined the wet lab team for iGEM. I enjoy playing volleyball and hanging with friends in my free time.
Evelyn Tsai
Wet Lab
Hi my name is Evelyn. I am a sophomore at Taipei American School. During my free time, I enjoy listening to music, as I like to play the guitar and the flute. I am super excited to meet everyone at iGEM, feel free to drop by and say hi. I am an open book.
Emily King
Wet Lab
I’m Emily King, a sophomore at Taipei American School. I watch a lot of movies and shows (favorites include Moonlight, Bottoms, Bones and All, the Bear, etc), and like many different types of music (Noah Kahan, PTV, Deftones, Ethel Cain, Dominic Fike, beabadoobee, Slowdive, etc). Outside of iGEM, I partake in debate, girlscouts, and different community service projects with my friends. I am interested in biology which has drawn me to the Wetlab team in iGEM, but also philosophy/ethics and poli-sci.
Lucas Pan
Wet Lab
I am Lucas, a junior from Fuhsing. My interests include reading and watching movies. I am excited to be a part of the wet lab because I really enjoy performing lab experiments. I’m also very passionate about synthetic biology and very excited to meet new people at Paris.
Dry Lab Members
Preston Tsai
Dry Lab
I am an aspiring engineer. I build robots. I use LLMs such as Google Gemini to spark my creative ideas and then I go from there. My creations don’t always work perfectly on the first iteration but I am always improving my creations iteratively. I don’t get a lot of sleep because I try to balance athletics, academics, and special research projects such as iGEM.
Jett Lin
Dry Lab
Hi, my name is Jett and I’m a sophomore in TAS. I’m in drylab and I joined iGEM because I wanted to learn more about synthetic biology.
Human Practices Lead
Ethan Chang (哲維)
Human Practices Lead
My name is Ethan Chang, I’m a junior in high school. I’m interested in business and economics, which is why I joined the human practices team for iGEM. I enjoy playing sports like baseball and golf, and I also like travelling to different countries.
Human Practices Members
Ethan Chang
Human Practices
Hi I'm Ethan a sophomore at Taipei American School. I enjoy playing basketball and hanging out with my friends. I joined iGEM to learn more about biology and explore the human practices side.
Lydia Chou
Human Practices
My name is Lydia Chou. I am a sophomore at Taipei American School. One of my hobbies is reviewing restaurants on Google Maps. I enjoy the small details in an experience and thinking about what information would actually be useful to someone else. Over time I realized that what I enjoy most isn’t simply rating restaurants but communicating my observations. This is what drew me to Human Practices in iGEM. I want to explore the human side of our project, understand the perspectives of the people it may affect and use those perspectives to help shape our project’s direction.
Bernice Wang
Human Practices · Team Co-Captain
My name is Bernice Wang, and I’m in my sophomore year. I enjoy travelling, hanging out with my friends, and hunting for food spots. I’m interested in finance and business, which is why I am on the human practices team in iGEM.
Angie Chao
Human Practices
Hi, my name is Angie, and I’m a junior at Taipei Fuhsing Private School. I’m part of the human practices team as an advisor and joined due to my interests of economics and business. I’m really into reading fiction novels and also enjoy hobbies such as chess during my free time.
Liz Huang
Human Practices · Team Co-Captain
Hello! My name is Liz, and I am entering my sophomore year. As a team leader for iGEM, I guide the team to win the prize. I enjoy dancing, playing the piano, reading, singing, traveling, and hanging out with people, which is the reason why I chose to be a part of the Human Practices team. Since I want to learn more about synthetic biology, I joined the iGEM team!
Interns
Emily King and Jacquelyn Liu were specially honored with certificates for completing internships at TradeWinds.
Instructors
- Nico - Founding Leader, Human Practices Expert, Biology Expert, Artificial Intelligence Expert
- Jenny - Human Practices Instructor
- Rick - Dry Lab Instructor
- Christian - Wet Lab Instructor
- Zoya - Administrator
- Matt - Incoming Leader, Administrator
External Advisors
- Davy Hsu
- Lance
- Arvin
- Maroof
- Qi Jia
Contributor Roles (CRediT)
Contributions are summarised below using the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) framework.
| Role | Contributor(s) |
|---|---|
| Conceptualization | Nico Chung, Davy Hsu, Human Practices students |
| Data Curation | Lance, Rick |
| Formal Analysis | Nico, Rick, Christian |
| Funding Acquisition | Zoya |
| Investigation | Christian, Wet Lab students |
| Methodology | Nico Chung |
| Project Administration | Zoya, Matt |
| Resources | Lance, Arvin |
| Software | Nico Chung, Rick, Jett, Preston |
| Supervision | Zoya, Matt, Jenny |
| Validation | Nico Chung |
| Visualization | Jett, Zoya, Matt, Candice (who hand-drew the logo) |
| Writing – Original Draft | Jett, Zoya |
| Writing – Review & Editing | Rick, Matt |