Co-President
Yianni Zerefos
Yianni is a Biology & Liberal Studies Major and a Spanish Minor. Yianni spends his time split between working on the dry lab, working in lab, and coming up with novel ideas for the project.
Co-President
Sarah Wenyon
Sarah is a Biology & Liberal Studies Major in the Honors Program here at Delaware. Sarah spends her time split between working in the lab, working on mathematical modeling, and organizing the team.
Researcher; Project Safety Manager
Erin Schulze
Erin is a Medical Diagnostics Major in the Honors Program here at Delaware. She spends her time working in the lab and making sure we have fulfilled all safety requirements.
Researcher; Wet lab lead
Samuel Miller
Sam is a Biology Major. Sam spends his time between working on the dry lab and working in the lab. Sam manages the day to day data collection and documentation of protocols.
Researcher; Director of Outreach
Kira Dzedzy
Kira is Double Majoring in Biology and Women's Studies. Kira spends her time working on the dry lab and working in the lab. She also does a fantastic job organizing all of our outreach events.
Researcher; Marketing Lead
Aditya Shukla
Aditya is a Neuroscience major Major. He spends his time working in lab as well as designing our website, promoting iGEM, and maintaining all of our social media accounts.
Researcher
Anna DiBattista
Anna is one of the youngest members of the team, but has an amazing grasp on molecular biology and genetics. Anna is a biology major in the Honors Program with a genetics focus and helps with research and lab.
Faculty Advisor and PI
Amy Biddle PhD
Dr. Biddle has been the main support of the iGEM team since 2016. She has helped maintain the team, ensures research and team success, helps with acquiring student funding, and has truly shown her passion for helping motivated students. Dr. Biddle is an amazing part of our team and has driven us to success.
Faculty Advisor
Rolf Joerger PhD
Dr. Joerger, of Animal and Food Sciences at the University of Delaware, has had some experience with bacteriocins and their wide-spread applicability in the food and healthcare industry. Dr. Joerger helps troubleshot and provides advisement to the team on construct design and lab protocols.
Researcher
Elizma Pretorius
Elizma is a student in the Honors Program here at Delaware majoring in Biology and has a minor in Spanish. She always steps up to write the extra protocol in lab and acts as an essential member of our research team. Fun fact, Elizma is the one who designed our team shirts.
Grad Student Advisor
Oshini Ekanayake
Oshini is a graduate student in the biochemistry department here at Delaware. Oshini assists to mentor our team and helps to provide the team with guidance when developing new protocols.
Grad Student Advisor
Reetika Dutt
Reetika is a doctoral student here at Delaware. Although she is within the biochemistry department, she primarily spends her time in the biological sciences researching brain cancer. Reetika assists to mentor our team, provide feedback on our protocols, various protein verification methods, and functional testing.