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The Team
Our team is comprised by students from the biological sciences, chemical and biomedical engineering, physics, and mathematics departments at the Universidad de Los Andes at Bogotá, Colombia.
Undergrads
Daniel Giraldo
Daniela Olivera
David A. Ayala-Usma
Juanita Lara
Laura Rodriguez
Javier Edo. Vargas
David Alejandro García
Luis Alberto Gutiérrez López
Luis is an undergraduate Physics student at the Universidad de los Andes. Since his school years he’s been interested in science, deeply fascinated by the way our Universe works and particularly by the mechanisms of life. His interest in biology led him to explore other fields like physics. This passion for science and knowledge made him a very devoted student which enabled him to be awarded as Best High School Graduate of Colombia in 2011.
Besides his enthusiasm for study, he loves physical activity, especially swimming and jogging. He also enjoys literature.
He decided to join iGEM because he considers it an excellent opportunity to become familiar with research and learn many useful things about molecular biology, mathematics and programming.
Roberto Moran Tovar
Roberto is a second year undergraduate Physics and Mathematics student at Los Andes University. He loves physics since he was at high school and thinks that the science ( specially physics) is the most amazing thing that could exist. Recently, he has been interested in the study of life, evolution and in general the whole biology. He thinks his best quality is the curiosity because lets him to explore the universe in a very funny way! He is a good soccer player, likes to play video games and likes good Rock&Roll.
Gabriel Martínez-Gálvez
Gabriel is a last year microbiology undergraduate student with a minor in physics and half way through a double major in biomedical engineering. He is also a gamer to the bone, and a heavy soccer and basketball fan. Since high school he found it fascinating and exciting to think about programming cells into living bio-robots automated to perform specific actions inside the human body. For that matter he found systems biology and synthetic biology to be his main motivations for his studies and graduation thesis with the [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Biophysics Biophysics Lab] at the [http://www.uniandes.edu.co/component/content/article/656-about-uniandes Universidad de los Andes].
He is very interested in the design of new biological processes through synthetic biology, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendritic_cell dendritic cell] information integration towards specific immune response coordination in humans as well as [http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed042p49?journalCode=jceda8 molecular psychology] for a better understanding of emotions and aging phenomena. Feel free to follow him on twitter or challenge him in [http://us.playstation.com/psn/#?psnId=network_psn PSN] (PSN ID: ksk_89)!
Grad Students
Mariana Restrepo
Silvia J. Cañas
Vivian Bernal Galeano
Vivian is a M.Sc student in Biological Sciences at the Laboratory of Mycology and Phytopathology at the Universidad de los Andes. She is a Bachelor in Biology of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She has worked in the area of molecular phytopathology, in the pathosystem Cassava-Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. manithotis (Xam), for two and half years and currently she has studied the small ncRNA of Xam. Her role in the iGEM Team is to participate in the lab activities and to coordinate, plan and develop, with her teammates, the activities related to the human practices, she enjoys that!!
Paola Reyes
Paola is a pretty enthusiastic Master Student at the Laboratory of Mycology and Phytopathology of Universidad de los Andes. She has been working in molecular biology for more than two years now. Her research interest is the molecular interaction between plants and phytopathogenic bacteria. Her role in the iGEM team has been to help undergraduate students on wet lab activities and in diverse areas. She loves drama but she is kind of cool most of the time.
Laura Avelleneda Franco
Andres Felipe Simbaqueba Sánchez
Andrés Felipe was born in Florencia (and that’s at Colombia) and he is a Chemical Engineer and M.Sc student in Chemical Engineering at Universidad de los Andes. Actually, he has been researching in bioindustrial processes in order to produce biofuels from cellulosic biomass. He thinks that iGEM is a good opportunity to understand biological processes from a more scientific point of view. However, his life is not reduced only to full-time researching... also he spends his little free time going to the cinema, hanging out with some lucky friends, meeting new people and traveling around the whole world.
Instructors
Silvia Restrepo Restrepo, Ph. D.
Website:[http://lamfu.uniandes.edu.co/RESEARCH/Silvia_Restrepo.html Lab. Page]
Juan Manuel Pedraza, Ph. D.
Dr. Pedraza leads the Systems/Synthetic Biology division of the Biophysics Laboratory at Uniandes. His specialty is stochasticity in gene expression, but is getting more and more interested in evolution and the consequences of phenotypic variability.
Adriana Bernal, Ph. D.
Dr. Bernal is a Associated Proessor at the Universidad de los Andes, her main research topic is the Plant-Pathogen interactions of Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. manihotis with its main host. She is the co-director of LAMFU with Dr. Silvia Restrepo.
Webpage: [http://lamfu.uniandes.edu.co/RESEARCH/Adriana_Bernal.html LAMFU Webpage]
