Community/Mentorship/Coordinators

Our Directors

Andres Ochoa


Instructor iGEM USP-UNESP 2012 and iGEM-USP 2013 Mentor iGEM TecCEM_HS, 2015 Judge iGEM, 2015

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

Caltech iGEM 2014
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

Queen’s University iGEM 2011, 2012

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

LaVerne-Leos iGEM 2015

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

USP-UNESP-Brazil iGEM 2012, USP-Brazil iGEM 2013

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

Instructor iGEM UFMG_Brazil team 2013, 2014 and 2015

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

Instructor iGEM UFMG_Brazil team 2013, 2014 and 2015 / Judge iGEM 2015

I am a PostDoc at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.

  • Hobbies: Dancing (ballet, jazz, hiphop); Netflix series!

Carlos Alberto Xavier Gonçalves

Student iGEM UFMG_Brazil teams 2013, 2014 and 2015

I’m a PhD student in Bioinformatics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.

  • Hobbies: Games, movies and TV series.

Rafaela Salgado Ferreira

Instructor iGEM UFMG_Brazil teams 2014 and 2015

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
The AlumniGEM Mentorship Program would like to thank The iGEM Foundation and Dr. Kim de Mora for their support.