Team:CIDEB-UANL Mexico/team

Angelina G. Miranda Lara

Age: 17

-Nickname: Angie

Hobbies: Singing, reading, sleeping (lots) and yes, talk through a Walkie.

What do you want to study? Medicine :)

 Why iGEM? Because I love anything related to science and I love learning something new. I think biology is the most interesting science so why not?

Diego Iván Valadez Lozano

 Age: 18

 Nickname: Vala

 Hobbies: Eat, watch movies and play videogames.

 What do you want to study? Computer Sciences

 Why iGEM?  Because I became interested in the applications of this science and I wanted to learn the work in a molecular lab.

Arnulfo A. Peña

 Age: 18

 Nickname: 18+ (18 mas), papá pato. 

 Hobbies: Dance, play videogames, practice martial arts, listening to music and being very curious

 What do you want to study?

I want biotechnology or nanotechnology

 Why iGEM?  Because it is a very interesting competence for it involves a lot of biology and also the implementation of new ways of scientific manipulation in order to create something better and improve the actual processes as well. I think that the area of biotechnology doesn't have a limit and that inspired me to join this team.

Antonio Cárdenas Hernández

 Age: 17

 Nickname: Toño, no Tony

 Hobbies: Reading, play video games, play basketball, but mostly: Be Weird, BE SAFER!!!

 What do you want to study? Medical Biotechnology and Neurology

 Why iGEM? iGEM is a big opportunity to demonstrate and to acquire more knowledge in diverse areas, including biology, laboratory and math, social sciences; and also it represents a big challenge: I’ll never regret for taking it!!!

Odalisse Ibarra

 Age: 16

 Nickname: Ody

 Hobbies: skateboarding, watch movies (fantasy drama films, science fiction psychological thriller films), reading, listening to my favorite music, go to the cinema *alone*

 What do you want to study?Mechatronics(?) Medicine(?) Architecture(?) my idea of studying at this moment is unclear, but any of the above are my interests.

 Why iGEM? Because I had never been in a disciplinary project that has significant and real applications. Moreover, I’ve always had preferences in science.

Jesus Delgadillo

 Age: 16

 Nickname: Yisus

 Hobbies: Reading novels; drawing machines; cooking and then eating; Leave some boogie on the dance floor; Watch movies in foreing languages (some with subtitles); make people laugh.

 What do you want to study?

I don't know what will I study; maybe something related with arts and humanities.

 Why iGEM? Because the lab procedures are really interesting for me; iGEM is a big project which comprehends many activities, people and skills.

Jorge Luis Hernandez Ayala

 Age: 17

 Nickname: Choche

 Hobbies:Blogging, reading, growing trees and annoying my cats

 What do you want to study?: Medicine?, Biotechnology?, Aeronautics engineering?; I still don’t know yet, but I know it will be something related to science and its applications.

 Why iGEM? Because it is the most interesting project that I have been involved, and I love practical applications for the biology and doing things in the lab.

Adrian Alejandro Rodríguez Rodríguez

 Age: 17

 Nickname: Adribubu

 Hobbies: Listen to music, watching movies, sleeping, running, reading, hanging out with my friends, meeting new people.

 What do you want to study? Biotechology

 Why iGEM? Because I like working in the lab, and for me iGEM is a very interesting project where I can develop my skills and learn more about science nowadays.

Ingrid Melissa Chávez de la Portilla

 Age: 17

 Nickname: Mely

 Hobbies: Hanging out with friends, listening to music, doing gymnastics and going to church

 What do you want to study? Medicine.

 Why iGEM? Because I like what it is done and it seems interesting to me. I like Biology, so I decided to try it out. I like Biology, so I decided to try it.

Joel Abdias Aguilar Orta

 Age: 17

 Nickname: Jlouz or Chol (a variation of Schöll)

 Hobbies: Listening to music all day, cooking, sleeping, going where the wind takes me.

 What do you want to study? Industrial and/or chemical sciences.

 Why iGEM? Because it is an opportunity for me to develop knowledge in another branch of sciences. Also because, “why not?” Also because, “why not?”

Raúl de la Garza

 Age: 18

 Nickname: Raúl

 Hobbies: Playing drums, listening to music and being in the lab.

 What do you want to study? Biotechnology

 Why iGEM? (Why not?) I love exact sciences and therefore, like synthetic biology.

Dulce Valdez

 Age: 16

 Nickname: Dulce de leche

 Hobbies: Hugging people and cooking brownies

 What do you want to study? Biotechnology

 Why iGEM? Because when I heard about Synthetic Biology I just fell in love, and I wanted to try something new and make new friends

Fernanda Puente

 Age: 17

 Nickname: Nanda

 Hobbies: Playing video games, reading, listening to music, eating tortillas and being a Safer.

 What do you want to study? Biotechnology

 Why iGEM? Because I’m very interested in biology and genetics and iGEM pretty much sums it up.

Eva Quintana

 Age: 17

 Nickname: EVA (Wall-E <3) or YOLO

 Hobbies: Dancing Ballet, listening to music, reading books, being me.

 What do you want to study? Biotechnology

 Why iGEM? Because I can learn a lot of things, I have lots of fun and I love science.

Irina Romero Guerrero

 Age: 17

 Nickname: :C

 Hobbies: Reading, listening to music, eating.

 What do you want to study? Biotechnology.

 Why iGEM? Because I like biology, and I love to learn and discover new things.

Lisandro Hiracheta Torres

 Age:16

 Nickname: Lisandro

 Hobbies: listening to music, playing videogames, sleeping and painting

 What do you want to study? Medicine

 Why iGEM? It was a great opportunity to know I can work with a group, and it was a challenge where I wanted to test myself

Andrés Marcelo Jiménez González

 Age: 16

 Nickname: Copernicus

 Hobbies: Solving equations, reading algebra books, watching movies about statistics, and dreaming about math.

 What do you want to study?  Actuarial Science

 Why iGEM? I consider it a really interesting project, in which the projects can be later be use on real applications.

Marina Emilio Aguirre

 Age: 17

 Nickname: Tortuga /Turtle

 Hobbies: Reading, playing basketball, painting, eating chocolate (it is my favourite), sleeping (well, it is my favourite too!), drawing, I think anything.

 What do you want to study?: Astrophysics ;D

 Why iGEM? I don’t really know, I just love any science and it looked pretty interesting and great.