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Collaborations

We make a collaboration with IGEM UNAH from Honduras, the collaboration was on tutoring them and give them the basics for their project; they are working on a project to fight Dengue, we decided to help them get their project going on the modeling part and the wetlab; for this we designed a working plan to help a part of their team get started on this and also an opportunity to present their project to researchers of the UNAM from physiology, biotechnology, genomic science and medicine. They came to Mexico and worked 4 weeks in June in the institutes and faculties .

Modeling area.

The section of our team who was more devoted to board mathematical modeling decided to apply a course on the general ideas for developing a mathematical model, in order to do this, a 5-days system was implemented.

• The first day was devoted to general problem solving, presenting some problems of mathematical logic, while trying to maintain a biological related subject in the problems, some of the listeners seemed enthusiastic with this idea and even used some extra time to discuss more problems.
• The second day was used to present a general idea on how functions work, in order to avoid confusions while working on derivatives and forming a solid basis for next few days.
• We begin the third day with a demonstration on derivatives and how they express change, which is a powerful weapon on biological systems.
• Once that the listeners were comfortable with this kind of equation, some general models of this kinds were discussed, for this propose, we asked for systems that they thought that could be analyzed under this perspective.
• On the last day, it was decided to present some other branches of mathematics that are also useful in actual biology, like game theory or graph theory, with useful examples on how they work in different biological examples.

Wetlab work

They were taught on the basics of molecular biology, competent cells, growing mediums, pcr, transformations and bioinformatics on how to design their biobrick. The focus here was on the direct wet lab work, we use space in the Chemistry institute for this classes.

The feedback was good and they felled confident on being able to continue their work back on their home country.

Project presentation

The team got a space to present their project on the IBT ( Institute of Biothecnology), CCG ( Center of Genomic Science), IQ ( Chemistry Institute), IFC (Institue of Celullar Physiology. They present it in group seminar or in special apointments with the researchers, they got feedback and learned of ways to improve their project and biobricks. The researchers where

• Dr. Rafael Peña

• Dra. Laura Palomares

• Dr. Julio Freyre

• Dr. Gerardo Corzo.

• Dr. Ayari Fuentes

• Dr. Maximino Aldana

• M in B. Jose Alonso.

• Dr. Enrique Amador Guzmán

• Dra. Gloria Gutiérrez Venegas.

• Dr. David Romero.