The iGEM UNA_Honduras 2015 Team wishes to thank the following
persons and groups for helping us in several ways; without their cooperation it
would have been very difficult to attend the iGEM Giant Jamboree 2015.
Abogado JUAN ORLANDO HERNÁNDEZ ALVARADO
President of Honduras
Provided funds for our travel to Boston, including individual participation fees for 6 students and 3 instructors, airplane tickets and lodging expenses.
Ingeniero RAMÓN ESPINOZA
Minister of Science and Technology
Director of Honduran Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation
Provided funds for research, including the Jamboree participation fee for our Team, training for our members abroad, equipment and supplies.
Dr. JORGE ALBERTO CARRASCO
Immunology Professor
Provided advice ans guidance in Immunology concepts, vaccine strategies, search in databases, how to make consensus, put his laboratory at our orders, helped us in the proposal to get more funds for the equipment needed in the research, suggested bibliography and told us where to search for the best information on the subject.
Dr. GUSTAVO ADOLFO FONTECHA SANDOVAL
Genetics Professor
Put his laboratory at our orders, provided guidancen in bioinformatics and collaborated in every aspect he could, very strong supporter of our Project.
Dra. LOURDES HENRIQUEZ DE MADRID
Industrial Microbiology Professor
Helped our team providing difficullt to get supplies needed only in small amounts and let one of her students to help us on rutinary bacterial maintenance and standart procedures.
Dra. MILENA VANEGAS
Director of the School of Microbiology
Gave her approval for our Team to perform the laboratory tasks in their facilities.
Dra. TATIANA CLARE PINEDA
Biology Professor
General support to the Team.
Dr. GUSTAVO ADOLFO CRUZ DÍAZ
Biology Professor
Put at our order the Natural History Museum for the Team had a place to meet, have lectures and room to plan fund raising activities for our trip.
PROINSULITRON – CU UNAM
iGEM Team from México
Helped our Team with several training topics such as Mathematical Modeling, Computer Programming, Immunology, Protein Design and Synthetic Biology laboratory practices and Biothics during a whole month in their facilities at México City and Cuernavaca.
TEC MONTERREY MTY
iGEM Team from México
Held a Meet Up with ten teams from México and two from Honduras including us; with laboratory training in Synthetic Biology.
Dra. MARIA MERCEDES ROCA
Principal Instrucctor Tec Monterrey in Guadalajara Team
Long distance advice and encouragement for our team, leader in SynBio without borders.
Dra. LAURA PALOMARES
Biochemical Engineer
Gave us ideas on how to design our protein in order to keep the virus´epitopes exposed in the hydrophillic domains of the proteins, a must if the protein is to raise immunological response.
Dr. GERARDO CORZO
Biochemical Engineer
Suggested us how to make our protein modifications stable and keep the epitopes exposed.
Dr. RENÉ ROMERO CAMARENA
Director Center for Genomic Sciences
Suggested us which kind of proteins choose as bases in order to make easy its recovery from bacterial cultures without having to destroy the cells.
Dr. JOSE ANTONIO ALONSO PAVÓN
Biothics Professor
Instructed us on the bioethical issues of Synthetic Biology
Dra. ANA MARÍA RIVAS
Biochemistry Professor
Gave valuable suggestions in for designing our proteins base don her experience in dengue vaccines.
Dr. VIDAL TAMAYO
Told us about his experiences in getting designed proteins, he offered to provide some amount of proteins for two of the four serotypes.
Dres. GLORIA ALLENDE RIVERO y SIMITRIO DÁVILA
Hospitality during my training at Tec Monterrey MTY
Dra. EMILIA A. DE PLANELLS
Logistic and printing services
Dra. ANA MAGDALENA GÓMEZ GENIZOTTI
Valuable help in getting American visas for Team members
AKNOWLEDEGMENTS
