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Meet The Team

Genesis is a student-led iGEM team competing in 2026.

Genesis was built to compete seriously in the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition. The team is co-founded by Seungwoo Lee and Artin Javadi.

Before Genesis, both co-founders were Alternate Finalists in the NASA-hosted Conrad Challenge for their biomedical diagnostics project Diaprobe.

Team Identity

We are organized to meet iGEM expectations across science, safety, ethics, community engagement, and implementation.

  • Science
  • Safety
  • Ethics
  • Community engagement
  • Implementation

Team Structure

Built as a multidisciplinary organization.

Genesis assigns clear responsibility across departments so season progress does not depend on one skill set alone.

Biology and Wet Lab

Department Overview

Biology and Wet Lab

Protein expression, purification, assay design, and supervised experimental execution.

Designs and runs wet-lab protocols for experimental validation.

Supports cloning, purification, and assay optimization workflows.

Documents reproducible methods and interprets biological results.

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