Team:UC Chile/Team/Members

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<font color="white">We would like to start by saying that many people helped throughout this project, many of whom are not mentioned in the Wiki (but we had to at the end of the day for political reasons). Any attempt of acknowledging them (them=other team members) falls short of reality...</font>
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== Team Members  (AKA: Beerdragons) ==
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It is impossible to express the amount of gratitute that really all the people that were involved in the realization of the project deserve. Your counsel, moral support, financing, help in many different ways were fundamental for the realization of the project... Eternal thanks.
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==Team Members==
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<h2>Beerdragons</h2>
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[[File:albandw_uc_chile.jpg|left|160px]]
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<h1> Al </h1>
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Real name: Al<br>
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AKA: Al, The Bloodthirsty<br>
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Occupation: Team's pet<br>
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Contributions: Lifts our spirits by telling us everything will be ok<br>
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Likes: To stare pretending he looks just like a bunch of micropipettes.<br>
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Freak fact: had a bioluminescent orgy with a group of TOP10 cells. <br>
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AKA: Aisaac, Prosimous, Sir Isaac N.<br>
AKA: Aisaac, Prosimous, Sir Isaac N.<br>
Occupation: 4th year student, bioengineering<br>
Occupation: 4th year student, bioengineering<br>
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Contributions: Wet lab magician, mathematical modelling<br>
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Contributions: Wet lab magician, brutal mathematical modelling<br>
Likes: Death metal, Chinesse noodles, martial arts<br>
Likes: Death metal, Chinesse noodles, martial arts<br>
Freak fact: Has 5 more siblings, can stay awake for 3 straight days, goes lab-camping<br>
Freak fact: Has 5 more siblings, can stay awake for 3 straight days, goes lab-camping<br>
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AKA: Charlene, Charlisse, Charlissette, Charlyon, Charlyonisette<br>
AKA: Charlene, Charlisse, Charlissette, Charlyon, Charlyonisette<br>
Occupation: 3rd year student, bioengineering<br>
Occupation: 3rd year student, bioengineering<br>
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Contributions: Made all our scribblings make sense (somehow), content editing, english correction, arduino<br>
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Contributions: Made all our scribblings make sense (somehow), content editing, english correction, arduino, presentation speaker<br>
Likes: Beer, barbecues, rain, really hot meat (lava hot), wearing evening gowns<br>
Likes: Beer, barbecues, rain, really hot meat (lava hot), wearing evening gowns<br>
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Freak fact: Missed her scholarship award ceremony on purpose, likes studying at the airport.<br>
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Freak fact: Missed her scholarship award ceremony on purpose, likes studying at the airport; has no fingerprints<br>
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Contributions: Wet lab magician (made things work when they wouldn't for months), structure and organization at professional level, new application ideas for biosafety, did the most horrible maratonic experiments (i.e. 114 dif PCRs, mRFP1 vs sfGFP)<br>
Contributions: Wet lab magician (made things work when they wouldn't for months), structure and organization at professional level, new application ideas for biosafety, did the most horrible maratonic experiments (i.e. 114 dif PCRs, mRFP1 vs sfGFP)<br>
Likes: Death metal, environmental protection, Chinese noodles<br>
Likes: Death metal, environmental protection, Chinese noodles<br>
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Freak fact: Skipped a whole year at high school, goes lab-camping<br>
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Freak fact: Goes lab-camping<br>
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Occupation: Supposedly writing thesis. Biochemist.<br>
Occupation: Supposedly writing thesis. Biochemist.<br>
Contributions: recruited all the team. Does multitasking. Running wet lab. <br>
Contributions: recruited all the team. Does multitasking. Running wet lab. <br>
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Likes: singing aloud, led lights, skating, horrible fluorescent color hoodies.<br>
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Likes: singing aloud, led lights, skating/surfing, horrible fluorescent color hoodies.<br>
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Freak fact: He has total butterfingers.<br>
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Freak fact: found a new bioluminiscent bug in the south of Chile.... but suspiciously he could never take a reproducible sample of it. Does this gulash recipe thing no one at the lab has dared to eat.<br>
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<h2>Other team members</h2>
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[[File:albandw_uc_chile.jpg|left|160px]]
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<h1> Al </h1>
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Real name: Al<br>
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AKA: Al, The Bloodthirsty<br>
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Occupation: Team's pet<br>
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[[File:Seba.jpg|left|160px|link=https://2012.igem.org/Team:UC_Chile/Team/Members/Seba]]
[[File:Seba.jpg|left|160px|link=https://2012.igem.org/Team:UC_Chile/Team/Members/Seba]]
<h1> Sebastián Espinoza </h1>
<h1> Sebastián Espinoza </h1>
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Real name: Sebastián Espinoza<br>
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Occupation: 5th year student, biochemistry<br>
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[[File:Emilia.jpg|left|160px|link=https://2012.igem.org/Team:UC_Chile/Team/Members/Emi]]
[[File:Emilia.jpg|left|160px|link=https://2012.igem.org/Team:UC_Chile/Team/Members/Emi]]
<h1> Emilia Díaz </h1>
<h1> Emilia Díaz </h1>
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Real name: Emilia Díaz<br>
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Occupation: 4th year student, bioengineering<br>
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Contributions: protein modelling in Bactomithril project<br>
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[[File:Ulises.jpg|left|160px|link=https://2012.igem.org/Team:UC_Chile/Team/Members/Ulises]]
[[File:Ulises.jpg|left|160px|link=https://2012.igem.org/Team:UC_Chile/Team/Members/Ulises]]
<h1> Ulises Mayol </h1>
<h1> Ulises Mayol </h1>
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Real name: Ulises Mayol<br>
 
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Occupation: 4th year student, pharmaceutical chemistry<br>
 
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[[File:Bryon.jpg|left|160px|link=https://2012.igem.org/Team:UC_Chile/Team/Members/Bryon]]
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<h1> Bryon Silva </h1>
<h1> Bryon Silva </h1>
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Real name: Bryon Silva<br>
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Occupation: 5th year student, biochemistry<br>
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[[File:Claudia.jpg|left|160px|link=https://2012.igem.org/Team:UC_Chile/Team/Members/Claudia]]
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<h1> Claudia Stuckrath </h1>
<h1> Claudia Stuckrath </h1>
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Real name: Claudia Stuckrath <br>
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Occupation: M.Sc in structural engineering<br>
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== Principal Advisor ==
== Principal Advisor ==
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Won HHMI early scientist award this year.<br>
Won HHMI early scientist award this year.<br>
Published in Science this year.<br>
Published in Science this year.<br>
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Plays the drums.<br>
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Likes to play the drums.<br>
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Always is a step ahead.<br>
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Is always a step ahead.<br>
The myth says he did about 2000 clonings during his Ph.D. work.<br>
The myth says he did about 2000 clonings during his Ph.D. work.<br>
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== Cyanobacterial Advisor ==
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<h1>Mónica Vásquez</h1>
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Loves cyanobacteria<br>
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Has been seen doing wetlab even though she is a PI :)<br>
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Knows curious facts about Saxitoxin<br>
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== International Advisor ==
== International Advisor ==
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<h1> Daniela Restovic </h1>
<h1> Daniela Restovic </h1>
Psychology  undergraduate student<br>
Psychology  undergraduate student<br>
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Prevents us from going insane<br>
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==Acknowledgements ==
==Acknowledgements ==
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We would like to thank the following professors for their feedback to our project: Francisco Melo (Bioinformatics), Eduardo Agosín (Metabolic Engineering), Loreto Valenzuela (Biomaterials) and Ignacio Vargas (Environmental Biotechnology). We would also like to give special thanks to Mónica Vásquez (Biological Sciences) for providing us with our beloved Synechocystis cells!
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We would like to thank the following professors for their feedback to our project: Francisco Melo (Bioinformatics), Eduardo Agosín (Metabolic Engineering), Loreto Valenzuela (Biomaterials) and Ignacio Vargas (Environmental Biotechnology). We would also like to give special thanks to Mónica Vásquez and her lab (Biological Sciences) for providing us with our beloved Synechocystis cells and advice!
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And finally, we would like to express our most sincere thank you to Clara Espínola (Clarita) for all the moral support, kind words and for putting up with us all this time. THANK YOU!!
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Project: Luxilla - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, iGEM 2012