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From 2011.igem.org

 

 

The team

Members

Name: Rodolfo Salazar Ybarra
Born City: Monterrey, NL
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.

Name: Janssel Reyes del Castillo (Mattie)
Born City: Monterrey, NL
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)

Name: Albert Lerma Escalera
Born City: Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas
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"

Name: Porfirio Quintero Cadena
Born City: Córdoba, Veracruz 
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.

Name: Eduardo Almeyda Carbajal
Born City: Campeche
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 :(

Name: Heber Torres Cordero
Born City: Monterrey, NL
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, reading the Bible, taking pictures and videos, playing drums and hearing music
What others say about him: I say rare things, I don't think so

Name: Daniel Rodriguez Reyna (Jimmy Bly)
Born City: Monterrey, NL
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

Name: Diego Cuerda Gil
Born City: Torreón, Coahuila, México
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 h (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 

Name: Miguel Angel Loera Sánchez
Born City: Monterrey, Mexico
Special Skills: Barking.
Area of Interest: Systems Biology
Interest food and drink: Bread with Nutella / Coffee
Sleep hours: 8 hrs
No. of cookies: ∞
Vices: Coffee. And Nutella. And watching internet memes.
Hobbies: Piano
What others say about him/her: "What is this I don't even...!"

Name: Claudio Moreno Rocha
Born City: Here, there, everywhere
Special Skills: Forget things
Area of interest: Regulatory factors/microRNAs
Interest food and drink: Everything, Sierra Madres Fraile Beer, cold milk, 
Sleep hours: 8-10 h
No. of cookies: 20-30/ h.  If chocolate   5-10 (any other) 
Vices: Watching tv 6-8 h a day
Hobbies: Eating and so on... Did i mention eating?
What others say about him: That I eat a lot