Meet Jude Clapper
I owe a lot to BioBuilder as far as getting everything started: the synbio program, running an iGEM team, educating hundreds of kids as amateur synthetic biologists.”
—Jude Clapper
Jude Clapper started teaching synthetic biology at Taipei American School (TAS) in 2013 after attending a BioBuilder workshop at MIT.
He is now the chair of Scientific Research at the school, as well as an advisor for their iGEM team -which has won three high school grand prizes and countless nominations, and has inspired hundreds of high school students to pursue college experiences that include scientific research.