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| + | Occupation: Team's pet<br> | ||
| + | Contributions: Lifts our spirits by telling us everything will be ok<br> | ||
| + | Likes: To stare pretending he looks just like a bunch of micropipettes.<br> | ||
| + | Freak fact: had a bioluminescent orgy with a group of TOP10 cells. <br> | ||
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Revision as of 00:02, 26 October 2012
Team Members (AKA: Beerdragons)
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
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: 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.
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
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.
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
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 to go 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 (Biological Sciences) for providing us with our beloved Synechocystis cells!
