Meet our Team
UBC iGEM is made up of passionate undergraduate scientists from different departments and faculties
Directors
Chaehyeon Lee
Co-Director
Biomedical Engineering
Narjis Alhusseini
Co-Director
Microbiology and Immunology
Leads
Achint Lail
Wet Lab
Honours in Chemistry and Biochemistry
QingRu Kong
Wet Lab
Microbiology and Immunology
Tina Wang
Wet Lab
Microbiology and Immunology
Lucy Hao
Dry Lab and Wiki
Computer Science and Chemistry
Piyush Awasthi
Dry Lab
Biomedical Engineering
Yejin Lhee
Design
Biochemistry
Aden Chan
Finance
Biomedical Engineering
Aden Chan
Finance
Biomedical Engineering
Wet Lab
Ada Jiang
Microbiology and Immunology
Burak Ozkan
Microbiology and Immunology
Chloe King
Applied Biology
Daniel Hinatsu
Biomedical Engineering
Diego Perez Hidalgo
Honours Biochemistry
Pattarin Blanchard
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Ran Tao
Microbiology and Immunology
Dry Lab
Matthias Wong
Biomedical Engineering
Riya Alluri
Biology and Computer Science
Samuel Salitra
Microbiology and Immunology and Computer Science
Sebastian Hyland
Biomedical Engineering
Human Practices
Charlotte Lee
Microbiology and Immunology
Jessica Xin
Biomedical Engineering
Wiki
Ada Jiang
Microbiology and Immunology
Burak Ozkan
Microbiology and Immunology
Diego Perez Hidalgo
Honours Biochemistry
Jessica Xin
Biomedical Engineering
Riya Alluri
Biology and Computer Science
Design
Aoniya Colynn
Science
Karen Lin
Visual Arts
Karen Lin
Visual Arts
Instructors
Antonio Wong
Wet Lab Instructor
Advisors
Brian Guo
Graduate Advisor
Janella Schwab
Graduate Advisor
Laura Gonzalez Campos
Graduate Advisor
Madina Kagieva
Graduate Advisor
Nikita Telkar
Graduate Advisor
Rodrigo Vallejos
Graduate Advisor
Anjali Parthasarathy
Undergraduate Advisor
Brenda Ma
Undergraduate Advisor
Edward Li
Undergraduate Advisor
Parneet Sekhon
Undergraduate Advisor
Umar Ali
Undergraduate Advisor
Principal Investigator
Dr. Steven Hallam
Faculty Advisor
