Team

We started as a group of 12 biotechnology students who didn’t know each other, but that had one goal in common: solve a problematic with molecular biology. At first we didn’t understand how to approach a problematic, but with communication we just find it in front of our noses: technology.

Our interdisciplinary team consists on students of ITESM Campus Monterrey of the careers Biotechnology engineering, Computer Science, Physics Engineering and Animation. We all have different perspectives on biotechnology from food industries to computational biology, each talent helped us to achieve our purpose in developing this project.

The team was divided in 3 different groups to focus on the different modules we had. Even so, each one knew what happened in all the modules to learn something new within each day that passed.

We are very grateful to all the people that made this possible, welcome to our family.

Team Members

Leaders: Carolina and Alejandra, the girls that made possible our trajectory possible along this year. Their leadership help each one of us to continue even though the rough days.

Part designers: Jesus, Carolina, Raul, Carlos, Yili and Suria were the minds behind the construction of the biobricks.

Mathematical Model: Javier and Javier are the guys that developed the mathematical model of our modules for us to understand better the bacteria’s metabolism.

Lab Work: Carolina, Alejandra, Melissa G., Jesus, Carlos, Raul, Meli R, Marcelo, Yili and Carmen were the handy hands that made possible the results of this project.

Human Practice: Yili, Raul, Suria, Carlos, Melissa G, Carolina, Alejandra, Carmen and Marcelo approached different communities to transmit a message of our project for the people to see how science can be inside the little things of daily life.

Wiki:Carlos F. was the person responsible of making the wiki. He made the code and part of the design. Special thanks to Roberto for helping us too!

Wiki Design: Jesus, Yili and Alejandra made a great effort in making part of the design of the wiki. Special thanks to Lucia and Lulu for helping us too!

Instructors

Thanks to our two instructors that were along our side in this year.

Dr. Guy Cardineau

Dr. José Manuel Aguilar

Advisors

Thanks to our advisors that spend some nights with us and helped us understand more molecular biology. They were the ones who teached us everything about lab work.

Luis Mario Leal Garza

Miguel Ángel Ortiz

Special Thanks

The team wants to thank especially all the people and institutions that made possible the development of the project:

• Luis Omar Peña Ortega, director of Escuela de Biotecnología y Ciencias de la Salud, Tecnológico de Monterrey.
• Dr. Rodolfo Garcia, from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, for giving us the strain of Chromobacterium violaceum.
• Dra. Viridiana García Meza, from Univesidad Auntonoma de San Luis Potosi, for giving us the strain Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans.
• Julio Alejandro Rivera Haro, for the analysis of gold and silver in e-waste.
• Juan José Cortés Morales, for the analysis of copper, zinc and nickel in e-waste.
• Ing. Carlos Lara Valenzuela, manager of Grupo Peñoles investigation center for information on the bioleaching industry in Monterrey.
• Alejandro Flores, who brought us C. violaceum from Mexico City.

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