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We are descendants from a place that emerged from a very slow geological process from millions  of years ago. Results that still impact the world. This place is called '''PANAMA'''. A place where history can be divided into many chapters. Beginning with the linking of North and South America, enabling the exchange of species from both locations, making evolution possible to make use of this place as a huge laboratory. Years later in our [https://2011.igem.org/Team:Panama/aboutPanama/history '''history'''] this became one of the scenarios for pirates looking for gold in the new world. This earth that links the world, owns one of the greatest engineering milestones, The [https://2011.igem.org/Team:Panama/aboutPanama/canal '''Panama Canal'''], and now the expansion of it is without precedent. We as young scientist are part of the enterprise involving genetic engineering through the [https://2011.igem.org/Main_Page '''iGEM'''] competition. Now Panama has two great engineering projects, one is the expansion of the Panama canal as a macro engineering project and our project as micro and nano scale engineering. This makes us pioneers in this field in our country.
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== Members of Panama Team ==
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This year our team is composed by students from the [http://www.up.ac.pa/PortalUp/index.aspx '''University of Panama'''], [http://www.ulat.ac.pa/es/index.php '''Latina University of Panama'''] and one student from [http://www.utp.ac.pa '''Technological University of Panama''']. All of us studying different careers such as Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Engineering. Also is very important to mention that we do have new members on the team this year, and also that we had participated in someway of the creation of the new team from Panama which is the [https://2011.igem.org/Team:UTP-Panama '''UTP-PANAMA''']. Good wishes for them...
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We were advised by several [https://2011.igem.org/Team:Panama/Academic '''Academics'''] representants. They all did an amazing job of providing us a positive feedback. That´s why we are very grateful with all of them.
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We can not forget to acknowledge to Lorena Coronado, Carolina de la Guardia (members of the Team on 2010), Oris Sanjur, Nidia Sandoval, Carlos Ramos. But also we need to give a special THANKS to '''Marla Ramos''', '''Carmenza Spadafora''' AND '''PATRICK NEE YOU RULE'''!!!
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== '''Advisors''' ==
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==== Carmenza Spadafora, Ph.D ====
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I obtained my doctoral degree in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry in Spain. After living in beautiful Andalucía I moved to Florida for my first postdoc position and then moved on to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the Washington, DC area for a much longer second postdoctoral position. I moved back to my country two years ago and when [http://www.senacyt.gob.pa/ '''SENACYT'''] asked for my institution, [http://www.indicasat.org.pa/ '''INDICASAT'''], to help the team, I was asked if I could take charge of the team work in our lab. It has been great to see the independent thinking, great enthusiasm, and pride the students have shown facing the fact that they will be making it possible for our country, Panama, to be in the [https://igem.org/Main_Page '''iGEM'''] contest for the first time in our incipient scientific history
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==== Patrick Nee, MS, Mechanical Engineering====
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My education was in mechanical engineering (course 2) at MIT. I then lived in Tokyo for three years, getting a Masters degree in mechanical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. I spent my career in software development in quantitative finance and consumer web sites. I have been living in Panama about two years, working and also giving support to [https://2011.igem.org/Team:Panama '''iGEMPanama''']
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==== Oris Sanjur, Ph.D ====
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I obtained a doctoral degree in Cell and Developmental Biology from Rutgers University, New Jersey. After I got my degree, I returned to my home country Panama, for a two-year postdoct at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute [http://www.stri.si.edu/ '''(STRI)'''], using molecular tools to infer relationship among domesticated and wild squashes. In 2000, I accepted a position at STRI as Manager of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Evolution. Recently, I was appointed Associate Director for Science Administration at STRI. I got involved with iGEM when I was invited by SENACYT to participate as one of the instructors for the Panama team. It has been a wonderful experience to have the opportunity to collaborate and share ideas with a group of very bright and enthusiastic Panamanian students that have embrace the challenge of representing Panama in the iGEM contest.
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==== Nidia Sandoval, Ph.D ====
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I was Graduated  from Jose Remon Cantera High School. Later i got my bachelor degree in Biology, specialized in zoology. before ending my  degree I started working as an lab assitant in Microbiology and Parasitology Department. during those years I did my Post degree in Biotechnology in the Universidad Santa Maria La Antigua. followed by my post degree in Superior Teaching in the University of Panama. finally on 2000 I went to Valencia, Spain, in order to study a Master in tropical parasitic diseases, funded by scholarship from the Spanish agency for international cooperation (AECID). on 2001 I started into my Doctorate of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in the University of Salamanca, Spain, also i took some Doctorate courses in tropical diseases, while I was making my doctoral tesis.
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I Obtained my degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biology with a concentration in Molecular Genetics at the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus.
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Then I do a postdoctoral stay at Germplasm Repository for Citrus and dates at the USDA in Riverside California.
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I have been involved for over 10 years as a member of the commission and biotechnology sectrial, Biosciences and health in charge of drawing up strategic plans for science and technology at SENACYT.
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I have been working as Professor in the University of Panama for over 30 years in which I had give advice for several tesis and graduate work for undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Currently I am in the position of Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Exact and Technology.
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==== Natasha Gómez ====
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'''Complete name:''' Natasha Natalia Gómez Pérez
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'''Hobbies:''' read books, papers, write about general things that happened in life and that pass through my mind, play guitar, sing, play tennis, spend time with my family and messing around with friends and finally, one of the most important things for me, be absorbed in my own thoughts.  
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'''Hobbies:''' read books, papers, write about general things that happened in life and that pass through my mind, play guitar, sing, play tennis, spend time with my family and messing around with friends and finally, one of the most important things for me, be absorbed in my own thoughts.
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'''iGEM expectations:''' This is a great step for doing something for the humanity. The entire world could change for good thanks to the synthetic biology. The power is in our hands, let`s do better things for the future.  
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'''iGEM expectations:''' This is a great step for doing something for the humanity. The entire world could change for good thanks to the synthetic biology. The power is in our hands, let`s do better things for the future.
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Research interests: I am extremely interested in conducting research in order to contribute to the knowledge and development of humanity in the scientific field. Since I was a child, my passion has been to study animal behavior. However, since I joined to study biology, the ecology and the environmental biology has been very important to me primarily because we are living a crucial moment for the world as global warming. Now I see more clearly that the synthetic biology is a good new increasing field to combat this and one good example is what we are doing in our proyect of rhamnolipids. I have many questions, there are now many aspects of biology that I like to investigate. I am looking for many answers. To go deeper and deeper into the wonderful world of the study of life, I reaffirm the maxim of Socrates, "I only know that I know nothing", and that gives me more thirsty of wanting to know.
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'''Research interests:''' I am extremely interested in conducting research in order to contribute to the knowledge and development of humanity in the scientific field. Since I was a child, my passion has been to study animal behavior.  However, since I joined to study biology, the ecology and the environmental biology has been very important to me primarily because we are living a crucial moment for the world as global warming. Now I see more clearly that the synthetic biology is a good new increasing field to combat this and one good example is what we are doing in our proyect of rhamnolipids. I have many questions, there are now many aspects of biology that I like to investigate. I am looking for many answers. To go deeper and deeper into the wonderful world of the study of life, I reaffirm the maxim of Socrates, "I only know that I know nothing", and that gives me more thirsty of wanting to know.
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'''Hobbies:''' I really don't think of myself as a person that has or cultivates "hobbies" at this point in my life since all of my time is shared between my thesis project (almost done! Yeay for me!) and the iGEM venture. This keeps me in the lab A LOT but I enjoy it very much. A few of the things that I do to blow off steam is sing (not only in the shower) because it helps me concentrate and make an otherwise bad day into a less stressful one. I absolutely enjoy the times when my best friend and I go out to have nice meals, as my grandmother used to say "Eating is the only thing that we bring with us when we go back to mother earth." A little hippie, I know. Finally, hanging out with my friends from the lab is one the things that I very much enjoy. When we are all together, we have a really hard time keeping a straight face. That's good.
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'''Institution:''' Technological University of Panama
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I love reading books on any subject, including my favorite authors are Stephen Hawking, Dan Brown, Sthephenie Meyer and Robert Kiyosaki. I hear all kinds of music, salsa, merengue and tropical rhythms. My passion is computer programming, I love it.
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'''The iGEM Experience:''' When I first learned about this, I had no idea what it was all about. Once it was all clear, let's get to work. All of the work done at the lab have all been worth it in order to come up with something that would help the world in some way, something that would further solidify Panama's position on the world map of research; a position that has been and continues to be nurtured by the best.
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I hope that everyone enjoys learning about our rhamnolipid project as much as we have enjoyed concieving and producing it.
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==== Jeffrey Perez ====
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'''Research Interests:''' Sometimes I feel that I should know by now what is it that I want to invest the rest of my life doing, but being in biotechnology has taught me so much in so many areas that sometimes it's hard for me to make up my mind! I've always wanted to know what makes things tick (bacterias, viruses, parasites, etc.), with a little bit of that knowledge, I can try to find better ways for them to tick or, stop them from ticking (only if it's a bad tick). For my immediate future, I'm very interested in pursuing a doctorate degree in Pharmaceutical biotechnology.
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Specialization area: Microbiology and Parasitology
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Institution: University of Panama. E-mail: freeje_25@hotmail.com
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Hobbies: play soccer, tennis sometimes, videogames, go to the beach, listen electronic music, go out with my friends.
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iGEM expectations: my expectations are huge, because we are a team of young scientist with great potential for create something innovator that can be useful for our country and for the world that could be revolve some environmental problems.
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Research interests: I am interested in clinical microbiology research because I want to know all about vectors, causal disease factors and how to prevent. How a dear professor said to me ¨ don’t be part of the problem… be part of the solution.
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'''Name:''' Ernesto Bolivar Gómez Pérez
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'''Research Interests:'''  Life understanding through evolution is my passion. I am an undergraduate student in Biology oriented in microbiology. I have been working those few years with the biology of the fungus growing ants as intern in the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Here in the department of behavior and evolution I start my travel into scientific research, studying how ants interact with microorganisms, how ants work against diseases, evolution of profilactic behaviors in the fungus growing ants, simbiosis, antagonism, co-evolution, bacterias, fungus, antibiotics, ecology are terms with that I have been familiarized. The development of engineered biology became one of my interest when I was studying microbial genetics, the manipulation of DNA brings to us a full knowledge of how life works and I am really interested to be involved of this kind of investigations.  Now with iGEM, the Synthetic Biology appears to me as one step further of biology engineering and I am doing a complete diving in biotechnology techniques with the aim to learn how to design and modify biological systems. I will keep studying and working in this field because it leads us to the full application of biology as a substance.
'''Research Interests:'''  Life understanding through evolution is my passion. I am an undergraduate student in Biology oriented in microbiology. I have been working those few years with the biology of the fungus growing ants as intern in the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Here in the department of behavior and evolution I start my travel into scientific research, studying how ants interact with microorganisms, how ants work against diseases, evolution of profilactic behaviors in the fungus growing ants, simbiosis, antagonism, co-evolution, bacterias, fungus, antibiotics, ecology are terms with that I have been familiarized. The development of engineered biology became one of my interest when I was studying microbial genetics, the manipulation of DNA brings to us a full knowledge of how life works and I am really interested to be involved of this kind of investigations.  Now with iGEM, the Synthetic Biology appears to me as one step further of biology engineering and I am doing a complete diving in biotechnology techniques with the aim to learn how to design and modify biological systems. I will keep studying and working in this field because it leads us to the full application of biology as a substance.
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'''Hobbies''': I love read books of nature or personal improvement, cultivate orquids. I practice classical ballet and hiking in my leisure. I also like to travel, and spend the time with my husband and family see new places in Panama.
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'''iGEM expectations''': Of this project , I expect to learn new lab techniques, especially transformations, mutations, and make competent cells… I want to practice others techniques of molecular biology, but all, to get our aim, to use the synthetic biology to make something useful for the human being.
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'''Research interest''': In the future, I want to study about cancer area, especially the leukemia in children and adults. Also, research about native orquids of Panama and the tropical diseases such: malaria, chagas etc… 
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'''Research interests''': I am not only interested in making science. Since I was a child "I HAVE A DREAM", as well as Martin Luther King, for studying Natural Behavior and Evolution in reptils.
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'''Hobbies:''' read all kind of scientific documentation (principally papers), work in lab (microbiology and parasitology… of course!) with marine bacteria, and drug discovery, Also I likes biotechnology and genetic manipulation of microorganisms.  Computers and videogames, heard and create music (with guitar, piano), sing, see movies, share some time with my friends, my family, and lab partners.
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'''Research interest:''' Microbiology, Biotechnology , Cryptobiosis, Geobacter, Electrocytes.
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'''Complete Name:''' Orlando Serrano
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'''Age''' 23
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'''Career:''' Biotechnology
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'''iGEM Expectations''': To increase my genetic engineering and systems designing skills in order to be able of  design complex synthetic biological systems useful in biomedicine and the industrial field.
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'''Email:''' osbiotec@gmail.com
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'''Research Interests''':  Gene Therapy for cancer and genetic diseases, induced pluripotent cells  for cell therapy and tissue engineering, molecular markers for population genetics studies, vaccines development, microbial fuel cells, bioremediation, DNA damage and repair mechanisms, biophysics and nanobiotechnology, bacteriocins as antimicrobial compounds and food preservatives, reengineering processes and quality control.
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'''Complete name:''' Yamilitzel Nareshy Soto González
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'''Age:''' 20 years old
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'''Hobbies:''' The right word for me is passions, because my passions are Karate Do, running, math & physics, read (a lot) and philosophy. On the other hand I like to watch sports and scientific programs.
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'''Career:''' Biology degree
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'''The iGEM Experience:''' As a scientist am really excite of be part of this, and could work in state of the art science field, now i want to continue understanding and learning of Synthetic Biology. But as philosopher I think that actual science have fallen in “do” without think, works in fields that not understand without the necessary “why” questions about (f.e. What we are really doing and why?). People accept new approach without question about the implications.
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'''Specialization area:''' Microbiology and Parasitology.
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'''Hobbies:''' Sleep, read, listen music, sing, facebook, online games, daydream, think.  
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'''iGEM experience:''' Despite of all, I had a really good experience of this awesome competition and I'm glad to be a little part of this amazing cake!
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iGEM expectations: Sometimes you feel like you really want to do something good for all world and I think iGEM is a perfect way to do it. Through iGEM we as students are able to create new and good things for us.
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'''iGEM expectations:''' I expect that this competition as a pioneer in synthetic biology in Panama achieve a "big boom" of this science in our country biggest than nowadays. I hope more people get interest in the development of this topic and get involve in a very near future, and for ultimate thing I hope to continue and have the perseverance to make this goal a reality.
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Research interests: I am not only interested in making science. Since I was a child "I HAVE A DREAM", as well as Martin Luther King, but in my case it is to study animal behavior in order to establish a better link between nature and us.
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'''Research Interest''': I'm very interesting in the molecular biology of extremophile microorganism, their physiology, biotechnology use and the possible application in exobiology and medicine.  
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