Our Directors
Andres Ochoa
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Entrepreneur, Scientist (PhD Biotechnology), Biohacker and Public Speaker. Founder and Director at SyntechBio - Latin American Biohacker Spaces Network. Cofounder at Arcturus BioCloud. Mentor of Biotechnology Business at Startup Mexico. Member of the Bioindustry Committee at FIESP (Sao Paulo Industrial Federation). Associate Researcher at GaTE-LAB (Genomics and Transposable Elements) at Sao Paulo University – USP.
- Hobbies: Science fiction movies, dancing.
Alec Lourenco
I am currently a rising senior at La Canada high school interested in synthetic biology.
- Hobbies: iOS development, drinking tea, moviegoing, attempting to sing, and, of course, writing college apps.
Our Coordinators
Kevin Chen
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I’m a cofounder and CEO of Hyasynth Bio, a biotech company focused on industrial biosynthesis, a cofounder of Bricobio, Montreal's DIYbio lab. I graduated from Queen's University in Biochemistry in Kingston, Ontario in 2013.
- Hobbies include: Making/Hacking, juggling and circus art.
Noemi Rios
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I am an undergraduate Biology student at the University of La Verne.
- Hobbies: Mentoring the youth, DIY Crafting, baking and binge watching shows on Netflix.
Joana Guiro
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I am a PhD student at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford.
- Hobbies: Rowing, learning languages and backpacking
Liza Felicori
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I am a Biochemistry Professor at Biochemistry and Immunology Department of the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. My work is focused on protein-protein interactions application to diagnosis and therapeutics. Since 2008, I am working on the field of systems biology and synthetic biology.
- Hobbies include: Play tennis, cinema
Clara Guerra Duarte
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I am a PostDoc at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- Hobbies: Dancing (ballet, jazz, hiphop); Netflix series!
Carlos Alberto Xavier Gonçalves
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I’m a PhD student in Bioinformatics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- Hobbies: Games, movies and TV series.
Rafaela Salgado Ferreira
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I am a Molecular Biology Professor at the Biochemistry and Immunology Department, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. My group works mostly on structure-based drug design projects, with a special focus on parasitic neglected diseases.
- Hobbies include: travelling, dancing, hiking, movies