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Uchile Team
Team Members and workplaces
Severine
Anariky
Hector
Gustavo
Diego
Luis
Ignacio
Natalia
Javiera
Jose
David
Noemi
Juan
Alvaro
Laboratory
University

Uchile-Openbio iGEM team

The team consists of 14 members and is a multidisciplinary, collaborative & nonprofit group. It was funded in 2013, by students of Universidad de Chile. The team’s main objective is to boost SynBio in Chile through the Open Source Philosophy.

Severine

Severine

Severine

Name: Séverine Cazaux
Occupation: Studies Engineering in Biotechnology
iGEM work: Human Practices and lab (?)
Likes to (hobbies): Travel around the world
Description: She is a punctual and meticulous woman, she always smiles to you :) Almost ever support anyone who needs. She really loves to travel(now she is not with us :C ) and she likes dirty jokes :o 1313
iGEM favorite moment: Talks in Schools

Anariky

Anariky

Name: Anariky Negrete
Occupation: Studies Engineering in Biotechnology
iGEM work: Modelling
Likes to (hobbies): make rubik cubes
Description: She is a organized girl. She is very good to host different events. It is very diplomatic to communicate herself and also is very worried about the animal life
iGEM favorite moment: When mathematical model works

Hector

Hector

Name: Hector Ampuero
Occupation: Student of Chemical Engineering
iGEM work: Design and construction of bioreactor for the project.
iGEM favorite moment: Tito also helped us on fundraising by selling a beverage called "Terremoto" (earthquake in english) on different places. That's why we named Terremotito. It is funny because in Chile we usually add to the words the suffix ito/ita just because, and it fixed perfectly.
Description: Tito is a very happy person, optimistic and comprehensive that's why it is a pleasure to work with him. Sometimes he gets angry with bacteria when he design the reactor but is ok.
Likes to (hobbies): He likes playing football soccer, playing table tennis, listening to music(spanish rock and some chilean groups), dancing, walking and watching beautiful landscapes.

Gustavo

Gustavo

Name: Gustavo Calvo
Occupation: Studies Engineering in Molecular Biotechnology
iGEM work: Logistic coordinator and laboratory work
Likes to (hobbies): He likes riding bicycle
iGEM favorite moment: When he won the second prize in a competition presenting our project!; when he broke a tip box pipetting? :P
Description: He is always offering himself like a volunteer to do different things related to the project, and he has a huge networking!; after an OpenBio activity in our university he was crushed by another car, and fortunately he saved unharmed.

Diego

Diego

Name: Diego Lagos
Occupation: Ms. on Chemical Engineer
iGEM work: Diego is the nerd of the team: his job was to encode the wiki content designed by Natalia to make it visible for everyone.
Description: Diego is always ready to explain anything to anyone and makes sure that he was understood. As a Magister Student, he wants undergrade students to know the overgrade's world by opening lectures to the undergraduated. In his view, collaboration is a central value, for he encouraged the formation of the Synthetic Biology Platform and brought a lawyer to help deciding which kind of organization this platform would convert into.
Likes to (hobbies): He must like biking since he always get to the lab in bike!

Luis

Luis

Name: Luis Rodríguez Hernández
Occupation: Studies Engineering in Biotechnology
iGEM work: General coordinator
Likes to (hobbies): eating and participate in various organized groups
Description: He is the best principal coordinator we would have had! He is always concerned about us and the progress of the project, and destined most of his time to make our group a great team. He really cares about the environment and needlessly waste material so much when SUFE should be thrown away so many points in the laboratory.
iGEM favorite moment: When he realized that the entire team could travel to U.S.A

Ignacio

Ignacio

Name: Ignacio Ardiles
Occupation: Studies Industrial Engineering
iGEM work: Financial issues
Likes to (hobbies): He likes doing sports and to appreciate nature.
Description: He likes to record videos of our activities.
iGEM favorite moment: Being Ignacio. Also doing the bacterial representation of each member of the team!

Natalia

Natalia

Name: Natalia Urtubia
Occupation: Industrial designer
iGEM work: Corporative image
Likes to (hobbies): Dancing zumba, built things with her own hands. Also she likes growing and taking care of plants in general.
Description: She has very a lot of skills on teamwork. She adapt to our necessities and really understand what we need. Think that she is a designer in a group of 12 engineers! It could be a tedious work for her :P
iGEM favorite moment: When she realized that the entire team could travel to U.S.A

Javiera

Javiera

Name: Javiera Gómez
Occupation: Studies Engineering in Biotechnology
iGEM work: Generation of content
Likes to (hobbies): Make nail art to herself and her friends
Description: She is a joyful and entertaining woman, her friends call her "Jabibi". Her creativity is reflected in her unique style, her nails haha, and her collaboration in tasks of design, she always volunteers to help when needed.
iGEM favorite moment: When we had to record the Crowdfunding Video to fund our trip. Ita was a very fun moment.

Jose

Jose

Name Jose Duguet
Occupation: Student of P.HD on Chemical Engineer
iGEM work: Coordination on lab work
iGEM Favorite moment: lasts days on the wiki work, when we all stayed at lab all night long.
Description: Jose is a really amazing person as an entrepreneurial profile has allowed him to develop multiple skills in various areas that go beyond the laboratory. Although he could not attend the iGEM competition, he is considered one of the main pillars of our project.
Likes to (hobbies): Being in the lab more than in his own home.

David

David

Name: David S. Millan
Occupation: Studies Engineering in Biotechnology
iGEM work: Communications and diffsusión
Likes to (hobbies): Pass the time with his son
iGEM favorite: moment After a long saturday meeting, his car didn't star because he left the car lights ON so we have to push the car to try to turn it ON. We didn't achieve it and finally someone help his recharging the car battery
Description: He is always doing networking with people who could collaborate us with the project development.

Noemi

Noemi

Name: Noemi Miranda
Occupation: Communications Officer at Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering.
iGEM work: Project communication, outreaches. She also helped us with our Official Clothing and merchandising stuff.
iGEM favorite moment: When she took photos of our main Activities.
Description: She is a very energetic and enthusiastic person. She likes journalistically cover projects that involve a high challenge.

Juan

Juan

Name: Juan Asenjo
Occupation: Phd. on Chemical Engineering, University College, London. College professor at the Universidad de Chile. Director on Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering.
iGEM work: Feedback in advance presentations, economic support on our activities.
iGEM favorite moment: When he found that there was a team interested in participating in iGEM
Research Areas: Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

Alvaro

Alvaro

Name: Álvaro Olivera
Occupation: Phd. on Chemical Engineering, college professor at the Universidad de Chile.
iGEM work: Feedback in advance presentations.
iGEM favorite moment : Encouraging our self learning, our teacher didn't tell us the problem of lactyl-CoA. That problem was a determining factor on final PLA production.
Research areas: Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Protein Engineering, Structural Bioinformatics, Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Synthetic Biology

Laboratory

Laboratory

Workplace Laboratories: Laboratories have been provided by Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering. This institute born as an initiative of Differnet Universities and was commanded by our team instructor Dr. Juan Asenjo.
Headquarters are at Universidad de Chile Beaucheff 851, 7ª piso, Santiago
Contact Central: +562 2978 4713 | +562 29784714
email: biologia.sintetica@cebib.cl
Website: www.cebib.cl

University

University

Workplace Universidad de Chile: The team represents the University of Chile is an institution of higher education in national and public basis, which assumes with commitment and dedication to excellence training people.
Main adress: Av. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 1058, Santiago de Chile
Contact: +562 29782000

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