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The Team
Undergrads
Juan David Olarte Plata
[http://twitter.com/jdolarte Juan] (born 20 October 1989 in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villavicencio Villavicencio], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia Colombia]) is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_engineer Chemical Engineer] and an undergraduate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics Physics] student at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_Andes,_Colombia Universidad de los Andes]. He is very interested in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology synthetic biology] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_biology systems biology], and currently he is investigating the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_circadian_rhythms circadian clock] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synechococcus S. Elongatus] doing frequency modifications, as the thesis project for Physics. He likes moving around the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogota city] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogot%C3%A1%27s_Bike_Paths_Network bike], and supporting [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millonarios Millonarios F.C.] at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio_El_Camp%C3%ADn "El Campín"]. Juan loves [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock progressive rock], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_rock indie] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_music electronic] music.
Olga Pinzón Rodríguez
Olga is a Physics student at the [http://www.uniandes.edu.co Universidad de los Andes] who wants to work in Cosmology and Nuclear Astrophysics. She got involved with Synthetic Biology through an advanced physics course, and she liked it so much that she decided to join this amaizing iGem team. Although Olga didn't know anything about how to work in a Microbiology Laboratory, she has learned pretty much and she spends some of her free time in the lab.
Thanks to iGem, Olga has known some friends and bacteria, but she's not very good at making jokes!
Gabriel Martínez-Gálvez
Gabriel is 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 as his main motivation for his studies and [http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Gabriel_Martinez-Galvez graduation thesis] with the [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Biophysics Biophysics Lab] at the [http://www.uniandes.edu.co 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/pdf/10.1021/ed042p49 molecular psychology] for a better understanding of emotions and aging phenomena.
Feel free to follow him on [http://twitter.com/ksk_89 twitter] or challenge him in [http://us.playstation.com/psn/ PSN] (PSN ID: ksk_89)!
Óscar Ortega
Laura Marcela Guzmán R.
Laura is an undergraduate student in Mathematics at [http://www.uniandes.edu.co Universidad de los Andes]. She is a Bachelor in Physics graduated from the same university, and the main area of work is the Information Theory and Theorical Physics. She finds in IGEM a good opportunity to work in the multiple connections between physics, mathematicas and biology.
David Alejandro García Grisales
Check my video profile [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BufpTWvrUE Here!]
David Andrés Ayala-Usma
David is a senior of Biology and junior of Microbiology that, one day, simply was in the right place to get involved with Synthetic Biology and became part of the team. He likes Molecular cell biology, Geosciences, Astronomy and some other science stuff. Also, he loves reading all kinds of tales and stories for children (like him), eating desserts, looking at the sky, taking pictures, playing at the PC, sleeping a lot, and talking, and talking, and talking... xD
He expects to eventually become a Ph.D. in Cell Biology, Earth Sciences or both, just to go around there talking about his favorite molecules, discovering new exciting things and earning money for that.
He also likes to be in contact with people around the world, and invites people with his same interests to add him on [http://www.twitter.com/davidraven1305 Twitter].
Grad students (Also known as the Aging ones!)
Javier Tabima, M. Sc.
A more serious profile [http://tartarus.uniandes.edu.co/user/5 Here] - Only in Spanish! Sorry!!
Jorge Alejandro López
Jorge Alejandro is a Master student who works at the Laboratory of Mycology and phytopathology (LAMFU) at the Universidad de los Andes. He is a Bachelor of Biological Sciences, graduated at the Universidad de los Andes as well. His master work is about a metabolic reconstruction of Solanum tuberosum while the infection of the pathogen Phytophthora infestans is stablished. His main area of research is Bioinformatics and Plant-Pathogen Interactions. His role in the development of the iGEM project, is help with molecular biology and cheer up the team.
Andrés Simbaqueba
Mariana Restrepo
Mariana is a Master student in Biological Sciences at the Laboratory of Mycology and Phytopathology at the Universidad de los Andes. She is a Bachelor in Microbiology and Biological Sciences of the Universidad de los Andes. Her main area of interest is Pathogen-Host Molecular Interactions and Molecular Biology.
Paola Reyes
Paola is a pretty enthusiastic Master Student of Science 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 phytopathogen bacteria. Her role in the iGEM has been to support undedrgads at wet lab and helping in very diffuse areas. She loves drama but she is kind of cool most of time.
Extensive academic profile [http://lamfu.uniandes.edu.co/Bacteria/Paola_Reyes__.html]
Nathaly Montenegro
Extensive academic profile [http://lamfu.uniandes.edu.co/Bacteria/Nathaly_Montenegro.html Here]
Silvia J. Cañas
Silvia is a M.Sc student in Biological Sciences (Microbiology) at the [http://biofisica.uniandes.edu.co/ Biophysics Laboratory] and the Mycology and Phytopathology Laboratory ([http://lamfu.uniandes.edu.co LAMFU]) at the [http://www.uniandes.edu.co Universidad de los Andes]. She is a B. Sc in Microbiology and B. Sc in Chemical Engineering of the Universidad de los Andes, where she worked with Metabolic engineering. Her main areas of interest are Molecular Cell Biology, Systems & Synthetic Biology and also Epigenetics.
David Botero
David is a master student at the [http://lamfu.uniandes.edu.co Laboratory of Mycology and Phytopathology] and the [http://bce.uniandes.edu.co Group of Computational Biology and Evolution] at the [http://www.uniandes.edu.co Universidad de los Andes]. He is a Bachelor of Science of the [http://http://www.unal.edu.co/ Universidad Nacional de Colombia] where he worked in immunogenetics and evolutiionary immunolology. Furthermore, like undergraduate he worked in medicine and physics. His main area of research is Bioinformatics and System Biology. His role in the group is advise the theoretical bases of the project and to get sponsors to support the travel and the project.
Nelson Rojas M
Advisors:
Silvia Restrepo Restrepo, Ph. D.
Website:[http://lamfu.uniandes.edu.co/RESEARCH/Silvia_Restrepo.html Lab. Page]
Juan Manuel Pedraza, Ph. D.
Prof. 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.
Catalina Arévalo-Ferro, Ph. D.
Adriana Bernal, Ph. D.
What we did
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