Latin America 2006

From 2006.igem.org

Project

Research Leader

Dr Raul Cuero,(PhD)

Dr. Raul Cuero, (PhD), Microbiologist, Distinguished Professor.Research Leader, Scientist and Contact Person for Prairie View A&M University iGEM 2006 group. Dr Cuero holds 8 scientific inventions and more than 90 scientific publications.Dr Cuero is currently working on fungal toxins at the molecular level, and on biogenesis. He is also the author of the book "Triumph and Survival".

Email: olimpa@aol.com

www.raulcuerobiotech.com

Instructor

Dr Raul Cuero

Eng. Orlando Rincon, Colombia. Orlando is a Computer Engineer and Software Designer& Producer and is President of Parque SOFT Columbia Company. He is also an Instructor for the Latin iGEM Team 2006.

Students

Jose A. Valencia-Castellanos

My name is Jose Antonio Valencia-Castellanos. I am a Systems Engineer and Computer Science student at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Cali, Colombia. I am really excited about joining the Latin American Group for this competition because it is an opportunity for researchers from the called “third world countries” to get actively involved in cutting edge fields such as Synthetic Biology. I hope our involvement sets the foundation stone for a Latin American Community that will explore and develop inspiring research projects in this field. All my of my research work has been related to bioinformatics so far. I started my academic training in bioinformatics at McGill University during my exchange year. Afterwards I worked as a Research Assistant for Professor Michael Hallett at the McGill Centre for Bioinformatics. During this time, I was involved in a large project on identifying regulatory sub networks in Interaction Networks. This work was the basis of my undergraduate thesis that I will present soon at my home university. Last but not least important, I would like to express my strong motivation for what we are about to explore in this competition. I am looking forward to use my knowledge and experience in Bioinformatics to develop something interesting and challenging in Synthetic Biology.

Alex Quintero

Buenaventura, Colombia. Undergraduate Microbiology, University of Andes.

Claudia Guevara

Claudia is from Colombia and is a Graduate, Microbiology.

E-mail : guevara.c@javeriana.edu.co.

Carlos Rincón

Carlos is from Buenaventura, Colombia. He is an undergraduate in Computational Science.

Sandra Garcia

Is from Colombia, an undergraduate in Microbiology at the University of Andes.

Fernando Rebello

Fernando, from Brazil is a graduate student in Microbiology at University of SAO PAULO.

Celso Ciado

Is an Electrical Engineering major student from Colombia.

Anabelle Camarotti

Olga Brea Peña

Is an undergraduate student in Microobiology from Brazil.

Elizabeth Contreras

Elizabeth is a student from República Dominicana. Email: lizcontreras10@gmail.com

Francisco Contreras

Lorena Ibarguen

Is a student from The Dominican Republic.