Management

Akshay Sethi: President and Chief Executive Officer

Akshay Sethi, currently pursuing a bachelor’s of science degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UC Davis, co-founded AmberCycle Industries in August 2012, initially for the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) entrepreneurship competition of 2012. Following the completion of his undergraduate studies, Akshay intends to pursue a MD degree, with aspirations to become a primary care provider in the future.

Mattan Hamou: Chief Financial Officer

Mattan Hamou undergraduate student at the University of California, Davis. As an undeclared Life Science major at UC Davis, he is currently exploring all the opportunities available to me in the college of biological sciences, currently debating between cell biology and neurobiology, physiology and behavior. Through my Emergency Medical Technician training, I obtained a stronger sense of what life in the emergency medical world entails. After learning on a deeper level the value of genetic engineering this past year I wanted to shift to the laboratory spectrum of the medical field. My intention in joining iGEM was to research possible solutions to medical problems which would allow me to combine both of my aspirations of research in a practical medical field.

Nick Csicsery: Chief Operations Officer

a senior studying biological systems engineering at UC Davis. This is my second year doing iGEM and I'm very excited to complete another project! I'm interested in all things engineering and in learning more about synthetic biology. When I'm not in lab or studying for classes, I'm usually busy organizing events as the president of the Biomedical Engineering Society at Davis.

Deborah Park: Chief Technology Officer

I'm a fourth year and I love brains! I love all things related to science, but neurobiology is something I would love to study more after graduation! I like to draw, play the violin, stargaze, and listen to some music! I love animals, so I like to help out at a ranch to take care of horses and dogs! I also like exclamation points!!!

Andrew Yao: B.S. Biomedical Engineering

Andrew Yao is the Lab Manager of Facciotti Lab at UC Davis. Our lab specializes in understanding how structures and dynamics of gene regulatory networks have evolved to regulate complex phenotypes. He focus primarily on microbial systems, which allow us to interrogate complex processes across a wide range of levels of cellular complexity (e.g. from single proteins to comprehensive systems-level analysis), and has become a crucial part to the development of AmberCycles technology.

Team:UC Davis E/Management

From 2012e.igem.org

Management