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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.

Contents 1 Team Members (AKA: Beerdragons) 2 Al 3 Isaac Núñez 4 Carla Vidal 5 Simón Álamos 6 Tamara Matute 7 Max Felis 8 Bernardo Pollak 9 Sebastián Espinoza 10 Emilia Díaz 11 Ulises Mayol 12 Bryon Silva 13 Claudia Stuckrath 13.1 Principal Advisor 14 Rodrigo Gutiérrez 14.1 Cyanobacterial Advisor 15 Mónica Vásquez 15.1 International Advisor 16 Fernán Federici 16.1 Advisors 17 Alejandro Montenegro 18 Roberto Munita 19 Felipe Muñoz 20 Dinka 21 Daniela Restovic 22 Juano Venegas 22.1 Collaborator 23 Rolando Moraga 23.1 Acknowledgements

Team Members (AKA: Beerdragons)

Al

Real name: Al
AKA: Al, The Bloodthirsty
Occupation: Team's pet
Contributions: Lifts our spirits by telling us everything will be ok
Likes: To stare pretending he looks just like a bunch of micropipettes.
Freak fact: had a bioluminescent orgy with a group of TOP10 cells.

Isaac Núñez

Real name: Isaac Núñez
AKA: Aisaac, Prosimous, Sir Isaac N.
Occupation: 4th year student, bioengineering
Contributions: Wet lab magician, brutal mathematical modelling
Likes: Death metal, Chinesse noodles, martial arts
Freak fact: Has 5 more siblings, can stay awake for 3 straight days, goes lab-camping

Carla Vidal

Real name: Unknown
AKA: Charlene, Charlisse, Charlissette, Charlyon, Charlyonisette
Occupation: 3rd year student, bioengineering
Contributions: Made all our scribblings make sense (somehow), content editing, english correction, arduino, presentation speaker
Likes: Beer, barbecues, rain, really hot meat (lava hot), wearing evening gowns
Freak fact: Missed her scholarship award ceremony on purpose, likes studying at the airport; has no fingerprints

Simón Álamos

Real name: J. Simón Álamos
AKA: THE agricultural scientist, Mr. Simon, igemito alpha, cookie monster.
Occupation: 3rd year student, agricultural sciences
Contributions: doing lost of digestions and ligations, in charge of the hispter style of the team.
Likes: mannerism, chocolate ice cream at Emporio La Rosa, mate.
Freak fact: attended art school for two years before switching to agricultural sciences. Gets his hair cut every month. Collects plastic dinosaurs

Tamara Matute

Real name: Tamara Matute
AKA: Tama
Occupation: 4th year student, bioengineering
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)
Likes: Death metal, environmental protection, Chinese noodles
Freak fact: Goes lab-camping

Max Felis

Real name: Maximiliano Felis
AKA: happy igemito
Occupation: 3rd year student, bioengineering
Contributions: most of the bactomithril project, videos, images, logo, biolamp design
Likes: video editing, image editing, wiki editing, editing.
Freak fact: frustrated violinist, attended music school at Viena for one year.

Bernardo Pollak

Real name: Bernardo Pollak
AKA: Pollako, igemon, igemuco
Occupation: Supposedly writing thesis. Biochemist.
Contributions: recruited all the team. Does multitasking. Running wet lab.
Likes: singing aloud, led lights, skating/surfing, horrible fluorescent color hoodies.
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.

Sebastián Espinoza

Real name: Sebastián Espinoza
Occupation: 5th year student, biochemistry

Emilia Díaz

Real name: Emilia Díaz
Occupation: 4th year student, bioengineering
Contributions: protein modelling in Bactomithril project

Ulises Mayol

Real name: Ulises Mayol
Occupation: 4th year student, pharmaceutical chemistry

Bryon Silva

Real name: Bryon Silva
Occupation: 5th year student, biochemistry

Claudia Stuckrath

Real name: Claudia Stuckrath
Occupation: M.Sc in structural engineering

Principal Advisor

Rodrigo Gutiérrez

Won HHMI early scientist award this year.
Published in Science this year.
Likes to play the drums.
Is always a step ahead.
The myth says he did about 2000 clonings during his Ph.D. work.

Cyanobacterial Advisor

Mónica Vásquez

Loves cyanobacteria
Has been seen doing wetlab even though she is a PI :)
Knows curious facts about Saxitoxin

International Advisor

Fernán Federici

"The Argentinian"
Told us he worked at Cambridge. Although we've never seen him there.
We send him desperate e-mails when things don't work (e.g. Gibson assembly).

Advisors

Alejandro Montenegro

Biological sciences doctorate student
Likes to eat pepperoni pizza

Roberto Munita

Biological sciences doctorate student
Knows EVERYTHING about PCR

Felipe Muñoz

Biological sciences doctorate student
Wears white to go to weddings

Dinka

Biological sciences doctorate student
Lady cyano. Helped us with Synechocystis

Daniela Restovic

Psychology undergraduate student
Prevents us from going insane

Juano Venegas

Electrical engineer undergraduate student
Microcontroller and electronics backup

Collaborator

Rolando Moraga

Architecture Graduate Student

Acknowledgements

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!

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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