IGEM_TECCEM

Team

Luis Fernando Durán

Age: 22
Location: Chromosome 17
Interested in: Immunology, molecular biology, genetics and cancer research.
Looking for: The complementary sticky ends of my recombinant DNA.
About him: Just like a mitochondria, he is the powerhouse of the team. Skills sharper than a scalper. Hotter than a bunsen burner. Cooler than glycerol preserved cells. Besides being the team leader, he is also a swimmer. His dream is to achieve something that can help improve people’s lives through science.

Nicole Saucedo

Age: 21
Location: Texcoco
Interested in: Cats and bold lipsticks
Looking for: Chloramphe-nicole resistance
About her: She loves cats and chocolates. She loves to help other people. Family and friends are the best thing she has. She likes to watch Netflix, specially TV shows and chick flick movies and read detective books

Jorge Ordóñez

Age: 22
Location: The top of the mountain
Interested in: Climbing all walls
Looking for: Somebody who loves me
About him: Funny tall guy with a lot of jokes. He loves watching series like Rick & Morty and How I Met your mother. Besides being an excellent iGemer he climbs mountains and loves to dance.

Laura González

Age: 22
Location: Inside our insects' cage
Interested in: Creating a microverse
Looking for: Hours of sleep
About her: She is a well-rounded woman driven by curiosity, currently studying Biotechnology Engineering. Twenty one years have make her a random, straightforward, friendly and pragmatic human being. She loves learning more than anything else and really enjoys life at its fullest. She speaks several languages, loves astronomy, ballet, yoga, reading and of course biology. Her hopes for the future is to make a change in the world.

Itzel Becerril

Age: 20
Location: CLOCK gene
Interested in: Bioproducts, biotechnological therapy and ecology.
Looking for: To transcend through science
About her: Just like an enzyme with its substrate, she catalyzes the team with her enthusiasm. Astute like a virus infecting a cell and multitasking like stem cells. She is a swimmer.

Valeria Rico

Age: 21
Location: Underneath an orange leaf
Interested in: Veggies
Looking for: C₆H₁₂O₆
About her: She likes reading, watching old movies, and thinking about everything that surrounds her. Although she might be shy and introvert, she loves to be around friends sharing ideas.

Philippe Monnier

Age: 19
Location: ChloroPhyll
Interested in: Gram positive people
Looking for: The fastest autoclave
About him: He is one of the team members who has overwhelming elegans. However, once you get to know him you may find he is a little vulgaris. When he’s not in the lab, he’s usually sleeping or trying to sleep, or listening to the smoothest R&B.

Frida Sofía García

Age: 21
Location: Upstream
Interested in: All doggos
Looking for: A method to capture D. citri that actually works
About her: She believes art and science are two sides of the same coin, and that simple solutions are always the best ones. She likes swimming, making art, and long conversations.

Juan Carlos Rueda

Age: 19
Location: Cell membrane
Interested in: Learning about everything
Looking for: His first Nobel Prize
About him: He is a third semester Biotechnology Engineering student. He is very responsible and loves sciences and maths, he reads a lot, he likes to watch movies, listen music, draw and travel. He speaks Spanish, English, German and a little bit of French.

Marisol Mancilla

Age: 20
Location: Laboratory 3rd Floor
Interested in: Lab skills fun facts (If you know one, do not hesitate to share it with me)
Looking for: Resistance to stress
About her: Sociable, talkative, active and trustworthy. She likes to hang out with her friends and to make new ones, also, Sol enjoys exercising and dancing. Of course she is very into sciences and she would like to enhance biotech in Mexico, mainly the clinical diagnosis area.

Fernanda Valdés

Age: 19
Location: Deep into your myocytes aka your heart
Interested in: Microbiology and cute E.coli stuffed animals
Looking for: A protocol for success
About her: PR queen / music and science enthusiast. She loves meeting new people, learning something new everyday, laughing and making her friends laugh.