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Contents 1 Team Members 2 Isaac Núñez 3 Carla Vidal 4 Simón Álamos 5 Tamara Matute 6 Max Felis 7 Bernardo Pollak 8 Al 9 Sebastián Espinoza 10 Emilia Díaz 11 Ulises Mayol 12 Bryon Silva 13 Claudia Stuckrath 13.1 Principal Advisor 14 Rodrigo Gutiérrez 14.1 International Advisor 15 Fernán Federici 15.1 Advisors 16 Alejandro Montenegro 17 Roberto Munita 18 Felipe Muñoz 19 Dinka 20 Daniela Restovic 21 Juano Venegas 21.1 Collaborator 22 Rolando Moraga 22.1 Acknowledgements

Team Members

Isaac Núñez

Real name: Isaac Núñez
AKA: Aisaac, Prosimous, Sir Isaac N.
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, 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
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.

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: Skipped a whole year at high school, 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, horrible fluorescent color hoodies.
Freak fact: He has total butterfingers.

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.

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.
Plays the drums.
Always is a step ahead.
The myth says he did about 2000 clonings during his Ph.D. work.

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 to go insane

Juano Venegas

Electrical engineer undergraduate student
Microcontroller and electronics backup

Collaborator

Rolando Moraga

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 (Biological Sciences) for providing us with our beloved Synechocystis cells!