Latin America 2006
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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
Students
Colombia 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.
Celso Ciado
Is an Electrical Engineering major student from Colombia.
Anabelle Camarotti
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
Olga Brea Peña
Is a student from The Dominican Republic.
Fernando Rebello
Fernando, from Brazil is a graduate student in Microbiology at University of SAO PAULO