Glasgow/Interviews

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59 Second Interviews

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Toby Friend

1. How are you today?
   
2. How and why did you get involved in the University of Glasgow iGEM Team 2007?
   
3. What do you feel you have gained from working in the Glasgow iGEM Team?
   
4. Where do you see yourself two years from now?
   
5. If you had £50,000 to invest in science, what would you do with it?
   
6. What has been your favourite iGEM moment so far?
   
7. If you could be the inventor of anything, what would it be?
   
8. What are you doing this weekend?
   
9. Tell us a secret.
   
10. Describe yourself in five words.
    
11. Make up a haiku on the spot.
    

Rachael Fulton

1. How are you today?
   
2. How and why did you get involved in the University of Glasgow iGEM Team 2007?
   
3. What do you feel you have gained from working in the Glasgow iGEM Team?
   
4. Where do you see yourself two years from now?
   
5. If you had £50,000 to invest in science, what would you do with it?
   
6. What has been your favourite iGEM moment so far?
   
7. If you could be the inventor of anything, what would it be?
   
8. What are you doing this weekend?
   
9. Tell us a secret.
   
10. Describe yourself in five words.
    
11. Make up a haiku on the spot.
    

Christine Harkness

1. How are you today?
   
2. How and why did you get involved in the University of Glasgow iGEM Team 2007?
   
3. What do you feel you have gained from working in the Glasgow iGEM Team?
   
4. Where do you see yourself two years from now?
   
5. If you had £50,000 to invest in science, what would you do with it?
   
6. What has been your favourite iGEM moment so far?
   
7. If you could be the inventor of anything, what would it be?
   
8. What are you doing this weekend?
   
9. Tell us a secret.
   
10. Describe yourself in five words.
    
11. Make up a haiku on the spot.
    

Mai-Britt Jensen

1. How are you today?
   
2. How and why did you get involved in the University of Glasgow iGEM Team 2007?
   
3. What do you feel you have gained from working in the Glasgow iGEM Team?
   
4. Where do you see yourself two years from now?
   
5. If you had £50,000 to invest in science, what would you do with it?
   
6. What has been your favourite iGEM moment so far?
   
7. If you could be the inventor of anything, what would it be?
   
8. What are you doing this weekend?
   
9. Tell us a secret.
   
10. Describe yourself in five words.
    
11. Make up a haiku on the spot.
    

Karolis Kidykas

1. How are you today?
   Fine Thanks!
2. How and why did you get involved in the University of Glasgow iGEM Team 2007?
   I found a leaflet advertising iGEM competition in one of my lectures. It was very appealing offer. I was very interested in biology while at school but engineering won my sympathies back then. It was an opportunity to go into field I am interested in but has little to do with aerospace just before I graduate and submerge myself into professional life.
3. What do you feel you have gained from working in the Glasgow iGEM Team?
   I always thought about any form of life as of a complex machine which we will be able to control one day. This project proved it to me that I was right. Of course I may not be alive to whiteness it!
4. Where do you see yourself two years from now?
   Airbus? ESA? I love Europe, but if bad luck follows me I will consider Boeing or NASA!
5. If you had £50,000 to invest in science, what would you do with it?
   Probably not in Biology! Sorry! I have an engineers blood
6. What has been your favourite iGEM moment so far?
   I could easily name the scariest one, but its hard to think of any favorite one. There were quite a few of them.
7. If you could be the inventor of anything, what would it be?
   Antigravity Engine! Though I know it is probably impossible, but you said anything.
8. What are you doing this weekend?
   Either one of four: Tennis, Travelling, Working on my project, partying
9. Tell us a secret.
   It will no longer be a secret then.
10. Describe yourself in five words.
    That would be harder then to push a camel through a needle hole.
11. Make up a haiku on the spot.
    Sorry, times up!

Martina Marbà

1. How are you today?
   
2. How and why did you get involved in the University of Glasgow iGEM Team 2007?
   
3. What do you feel you have gained from working in the Glasgow iGEM Team?
   
4. Where do you see yourself two years from now?
   
5. If you had £50,000 to invest in science, what would you do with it?
   
6. What has been your favourite iGEM moment so far?
   
7. If you could be the inventor of anything, what would it be?
   
8. What are you doing this weekend?
   
9. Tell us a secret.
   
10. Describe yourself in five words.
    
11. Make up a haiku on the spot.
    

Lynsey McLeay

1. How are you today?
   
2. How and why did you get involved in the University of Glasgow iGEM Team 2007?
   
3. What do you feel you have gained from working in the Glasgow iGEM Team?
   
4. Where do you see yourself two years from now?
   
5. If you had £50,000 to invest in science, what would you do with it?
   
6. What has been your favourite iGEM moment so far?
   
7. If you could be the inventor of anything, what would it be?
   
8. What are you doing this weekend?
   
9. Tell us a secret.
   
10. Describe yourself in five words.
    
11. Make up a haiku on the spot.
    

Christine Merrick

1. How are you today?
   I'm good thanks, how are you?
2. How and why did you get involved in the University of Glasgow iGEM Team 2007?
   I wanted to get loads of lab experience over the summer and asked Susan Rosser if she would take me on in her lab. She agreed to take me on over the summer and a short time later she informed me about the iGEM competition. I went to a presentation and discovered that this was exactly what I want to do. I think the concept of Synthetic Biology is very exciting and is definately something I want to be involved in while I work towards my degree.
3. What do you feel you have gained from working in the Glasgow iGEM Team?
   A whole lot! I have learned so much on a daily basis that when I think back to the start of the project I can't believe how much I've progressed. Three months ago I had never set foot in a research lab and here I am today! I think that's pretty cool.
4. Where do you see yourself two years from now?
   Hopefully two years from now I will have just finished a work placement as part of my degree in a place much sunnier than Glasgow.
5. If you had £50,000 to invest in science, what would you do with it?
   I think that basic molecular genetics should be taught as a foundation of biology in schools the same way that anatomy is. It will be in a hundred years why not make it so today? If that wasn't an option I would use it to solve the world's problems in some way, perhaps expressing drugs for the third world in plants, making biofuels improving the environment.
6. What has been your favourite iGEM moment so far?
   Well, I really like it when we get results, and I’ve loved learning so much from the people I work with, but the international food night was my favourite. Sitting and laughing with the team from so many different backgrounds was great, especially while eating such good food. Maija’s fissu is awesome.
7. If you could be the inventor of anything, what would it be?
   See Genesis. Only kidding. The wheel, surfing, the colour blue or maybe some way making smoke alarms tell the difference between a real fire and burned toast.
8. What are you doing this weekend?
   Some home improvements, the cinema, and possibly a trip to London to see my brother -he doesn't know it yet.
9. Tell us a secret.
   I have a Girls Aloud song on my iPod, and I quite like it too.
10. Describe yourself in five words.
    You ain’t seen nothing yet.
11. Make up a haiku on the spot.
    From where I’m sitting
    I see a computer screen
    With true reflection
    

Maija Paakkunainen

1. How are you today?
   I want to think about that.
2. How and why did you get involved in the University of Glasgow iGEM Team 2007?
   
3. What do you feel you have gained from working in the Glasgow iGEM Team?
   
4. Where do you see yourself two years from now?
   
5. If you had £50,000 to invest in science, what would you do with it?
   What has been your favourite iGEM moment so far?
   
6. If you could be the inventor of anything, what would it be?
   
7. What are you doing this weekend?
   
8. Tell us a secret.
   
9. Describe yourself in five words.
   
10. Make up a haiku on the spot.
    

Scott Ramsay

1. How are you today?
   Exhausted. We just spent the day clearing out our lab now that the project is almost finished.
2. How and why did you get involved in the University of Glasgow iGEM Team 2007?
   I spoke to a lecturer after class who told me about a summer project we'd get to design ourselves and maybe win some prizes for. I thought it'd be a good opportunity to get to know what life in a lab is like before I start my PhD next year.
3. What do you feel you have gained from working in the Glasgow iGEM Team?
   An understanding of how many times experiments go wrong before they go right!
4. Where do you see yourself two years from now?
   Hopefully still halfway through a PhD.
5. If you had £50,000 to invest in science, what would you do with it?
   Set up a scheme to take laboratory science to schools so students can see how much fun and hands-on it is.
6. What has been your favourite iGEM moment so far?
   Making friends with the team from Edinburgh, and realising they're having setbacks too.
7. If you could be the inventor of anything, what would it be?
   Already existing? The radio. Imagine how much money you could have made from all the technologies that rely on some sort of radio transmitters. In the future? I'd co-invent a machine that auto-thaws molecular biology reagents with Lynsey...
8. What are you doing this weekend?
   How forward!
9. Tell us a secret.
   I love cheese and jam sandwiches.
10. Describe yourself in five words.
    Tall, friendly, self-doubting, caffeine loving.
11. Make up a haiku on the spot.
    Haiku I must write
    But inventive I am not
    This will have to do.

Maciej Trybilo

1. How are you today?
   
2. How and why did you get involved in the University of Glasgow iGEM Team 2007?
   
3. What do you feel you have gained from working in the Glasgow iGEM Team?
   
4. Where do you see yourself two years from now?
   
5. If you had £50,000 to invest in science, what would you do with it?
   
6. What has been your favourite iGEM moment so far?
   
7. If you could be the inventor of anything, what would it be?
   
8. What are you doing this weekend?
   
9. Tell us a secret.
   
10. Describe yourself in five words.
    
11. Make up a haiku on the spot.