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

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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. Systems Engineer with undergraduate studies in Anthropology. During the last 20 years he has participated in research projects in 5 international Computer Science laboratories and has led research teams in design and software development in Colombia. He has inspired and led initiatives for enterprise incubators of technological base, as well as Marketing and Business Support processes for the expansion of the Colombian Software Industry throughout Latin America. Mr. Rincon is a national and international consultant in Software Development and IT Solutions Technology.

Students

Alex Quintero Yanes

Alex Armando Quintero Yanes raised up in Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Member of the program LEARNING BY DOING IT. At his 21 years old Alex courses science in a University in Bogotá, Colombia. alexcoupeqy@msn.com

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.

Claudia Guevara

Claudia is from Colombia and is a Graduate, Microbiology.

E-mail : guevara.c@javeriana.edu.co.

Carlos Rincon

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

Sandra Garcia

Is from Bogotá, Colombia. She's an undergraduate Microbiology.

Fernando Rebello

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

Anabelle Camarotti

Anabelle is an undergraduate student in Microbiolgy from Brazil.

Gabriela Luchini

Gabriela is a Third Year Computational Design Student at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Esteban Parise

Esteban is a Computer Engineering Major at the Moron University in Buenos Aires.

Olga Brea Peña

Olga is a Third Year Medical student from Dominican Republic.

Elizabeth Contreras

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

Francisco Contreras

Francesco is a Civil Engineering student from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Susan Micolta

Susan is a Junior Biology student from University of Valle, Cali,Colombia.

Lorena Ibarguen

Lorena is a student from Colombia and she is a senior in high school. I have a strong interest in the medical field. My future career is to be a M.D. with a specialty in Gynecology. This profession draws me close because I want to make a difference by helping women. Another career that I am interested in is Infectious Tropical Disease. What makes this career appealing is that in my home country many people live and die with these diseases, and there are so few doctors and help to cure these patients.