Team:UANL Mty-Mexico/Team/Members
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Special Skills: Agarose gels, bacteria killer
Area of Interest: Medicine, physics, mathematics and systems biology
Interest food and drink: Pizza, chinese food, coffee, tea, Fraile-beer and wine
Sleep hours: 5-7 h
No. of cookies: 3-4 per day
Vices: Coffee, thinking in tiny details, wasting time in an interesting way
Hobbies: Talking, reading, observing things that usually go unnoticed, learning, football soccer, music, partiess and more
What others say about him: I get distracted easily, I'm slow and hardly get mad
Special Skills: MiniPreps with both hands
Area of Interest: Molecular Biology, Biomedicine, Industrial Biotechnology
Interest food and drink: Trompo's tacos, limonade and vanilla milk
Sleep hours: 6-9 h
No. of cookies: 4-8 per day
Vices: Phrases or quotes to say, penguins, reading books, watching videos on YouTube and make sodokus
Hobbies: Reading classic literature, hearing rap, sleep, play in the iPad, make drawings and take videos
What others say about him: Lord Totopo (Nacho)
Special Skills: Fill thermocycler with PCR reactions
Area of Interest: Genome engineering and genomics
Interest food and drink: Cold tea, shots, beer and roast beef
Sleep hours: 6 h
No. of cookies: Depending on the package
Vices: Chocolate and shots
Hobbies: Hearing music, football soccer
What others say about him: I'm a serious person "Rodo"
Special Skills: Ligation and transformation
Area of Interest: Systems Biology
Interest food and drink: Fraile-beer and wings
Sleep hours: As much as possible
No. of cookies: 4 before Diego, 0 after Diego
Vices: Sleeping
Hobbies: Reading books, reading ebooks, reading tarot, reading hand, reading tea leafs, reading minds, reading series and fraile-beer.
What others say about him: They say I look very bad when I just wake up, they thank not to be me those times.
Special Skills: Extraction, cut, ligation, transformation, fly
Area of Interest: Molecular medicine, genome engineering and pharmacogenomics
Interest food and drink: Enchiladas suizas and Pepsi
Sleep hours: 6-8 h
No. of cookies: 2 per day
Vices: Being cool
Hobbies: Hearing music, watching series and movies
What others say about him: I'm not as cool as I say :(
Special Skills: MiniPrep with both feet
Area of Interest: Industrial Biotechnology, pharmacogenomics and synthetic biology
Interest food and drink: Nestea, lemonade and sushi
Sleep hours: 6-8 h
No. of cookies: Depending on the number of packages
Vices: Computers and mobile devices, taking pictures and music
Hobbies: Visit new places, read the Bible, take pictures and videos, play drums and hear music
What others say about him:I say rare things, I don't think so
Special Skills: Being in the computer and throw glass tubes at the lab
Area of Interest: Bioinformatics and synthetic biology
Interest food and drink: Chocolala and tacos
Sleep hours: 4-6 h
No. of cookies: As much as possible
Vices: Workaholic and pressure
Hobbies: Driving, run, use Heber's iPad, play Hacktisack, bullying Mattie, give D-orders.
What others say about him:It's better to stay in my computer than being in the lab
Special Skills: Arrive early to lab and prepare agarose
Area of Interest: Genome Engineering
Interest food and drink: Mole and Fraile-Beer
Sleep hours: 8 hours (sometimes)
No. of cookies: 1/2 package per day low hunger
Vices: Muffins and cookies (chocolate)
Hobbies: Going to Sierra, Internet and Work
What others say about him:I'm The Light man
Special Skills: Barking
Area of Interest: Systems Biology
Interest food and drink: Bread with Nutella / Coffee
Sleep hours: 8 hours
No. of cookies:∞
Vices: Coffee. And Nutella. And watching internet memes.
Hobbies: Piano
What others say about him: "What is this I don't even...!"
Special Skills: Mathematical Modelling
Area of Interest: Systems biology, organ engineering, molecular medicine, pharmacogenomics
Interest food and drink: Mexican food
Sleep hours: 4-6 hours
No. of cookies: D:
Vices: Workaholic
Hobbies: Dancing, reading, traveling, learning
What others say about him: She is so hyperactive
Special Skills:
Area of Interest: Fugies
Interest food and drink: Meat
Sleep hours: 12 h
No. of cookies: Many
Vices: Pedro
Hobbies: Lab
What others say about him: She is so big ...
J. Claudio Moreno-Rocha. Biologist from the Biology School, Master and Doctor degree with Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering from the Medicine School, both from Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in Monterrey, México. He was Assistant Research in the Molecular Biology lab in Medicine School from 1990 to 2000 and actually he is Assistant Professor and Full Researcher in Biology School since 2000 until today. He is Genetics, Bioinformatics and System Biology professor in the Biology School. His research projects are the Drosophila melanogaster microRNA promoter detection and characterization in silico and in vivo. Other item is the Drosophila homeotic gene regulation with microRNAs in cell culture and in vivo. He visit as interchange research fellow the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston Texas in 1992; Molecular Centre "Severo Ochoa" in the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid in 1994; Institut de Genetiqué et Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC) in Strasbourg France in 1997 and the Neurobiology Centre UNAM in Queretaro, México in 2003.