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Team:UC Chile2/Team/Members
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Team Members
Isaac Núñez
Real name: Isaac Núñez
AKA: Aisaac
Occupation: 4th year student, bioengineering
Contributions: Wet lab magician, mathematical modelling
Likes: Death metal, Chinesse noodles, martial arts
Freak fact: Has 5 more siblings, can stay awake for 3 straight days
Carla Vidal
Real name: Unknown
AKA: Charlisse, Charlissette, Charlyon, Charlyonisette
Occupation: 3rd year student, bioengineering
Contributions: Made all our scribblings make sense (somehow), content editing, english correction, arduino
Likes: Beer, barbecues, rain, really hot meat (lava hot), wearing evening gowns
Freak fact: Missed her scholarship award ceremony on purpose
Simón Álamos
Real name: J. Simón Álamos
AKA: THE agricultural scientist, Mr. Simon, igemito alpha.
Occupation: 3rd year student, agricultural sciences
Contributions: running the wet lab, 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.
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: Skipped a whole year at high school
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 undergraduate thesis. Biochemist.
Contributions:
Likes: singing aloud
Freak fact:
Al
Real name: Al
AKA: Al, The Bloodthirsty
Occupation: Team's peat
Contributions: Lifts our spirits by telling us everything will be ok
Likes: To stare
Freak fact:
Principal Advisor
Rodrigo Gutiérrez
International Advisor
Fernán Federici
"The Argentinian"
Told us he worked in 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
Sychology undergraduate student
Prevents us to go insane
Juano Venegas
Electrical engineer undergraduate student
Microcontroller and electronics backup
Collaborator
Rolando Moraga
Other contributors
Sebastián Espinoza
Emilia Díaz
Ulises Mayol
Bryon Silva
Claudia Stuckrath
Acknowledgements
Mónica Vásquez
Francisco Melo
Eduardo Agosín
Loreto Valenzuela
