Team:Tec-Monterrey/Attributions

Attributions
No great project is done without help
What we have done
Since 2017, the whole iGEM Tec-Monterrey team has been working on all other aspects left out of these attributions, including brainstorming the concept idea based on previous research, conducting lab work and purchasing equipment and materials, among many other important tasks. Without further ado, we would like to mention all the incredible people that are responsible for the success of this project.
General Support
Project Support and Advice
  • Luis Mario Leal: For constantly supporting the team in about every single aspect since the beginning of the formation of the group . The project wouldn't have been the same without him. We are especially grateful for his guidance on the development of the different competition parameters and the selection of our project’s topic and design of most important constructs, the commitment, and responsibility towards our team and for his help on the organization of the team. Also for being a leader when we faced the deepest problems in our team and helped to resolve them. Even though he had lots of professional occupations, he was always there for us. Thank you for everything Luis Mario!
Dry/Wet Lab Support
  • Camilo Chávez:
    • For helping to give direction to our team at the beginning of the project, he also trained us with the basic protocols in synthetic biology at lab. He inspired us with all his experience at iGEM and as an entrepreneur an biohacker with his enterprise Scintia. Thank you Camilo for all your advice!
  • James K. Nuñez:
    • Postdoc at UCSF in J. Weissman's lab and PhD from Doudna Lab, UC Berkeley; we had a meeting for presenting our project and doubts about his research, and also helped us sending important DNA sequence for the research purposes of this project. We are really greatful his time, kindness and patience with us.
  • Seth Shipman:
    • Postdoc at George Church's Lab, at Harvard, we presented our project and doubts about his research and gave us feedback in our theoretical framework. We are really grateful for your time and kindness.
  • César Ortiz:
    • MSc specialized in Biotechnology currently working at the Biotechnology Center at the Molecular Biology Division. He has a very critical and empathetic opinion to improve the work of the others while maintaining harmony. He kindly provided us with lots of helpful advice about basic and advanced protocols in synthetic biology and provided us material when the team needed support. César has been really kind with ourselves and we thank all the time that helped us with our wet lab troubles.
  • Jesús Hernández (Chucho):
    • Ex-iGEMer, and graduate from B.S. in Biotechnology Engineering. He is part of the Molecular Biology Laboratory in the FEMSA Biotechnology Center. He was always there to help and give us some great advice.
  • Sergio García:
    • BsC in Genomic Biotechnology and MsC that helped us many times with troubleshooting at lab, and helping us providing material. He is really kind with ourselves and have a spirit of always helping others at lab.
  • Felipe López Pacheco:
    • has a technical degree in Biotechnology and is currently majoring in Biotechnology Engineering. Helped us with technical support and taught us valuable information about molecular biology protocols.
  • Alejandro Gonzalez:
    • helped us with protein characterization suggestions and provided us antibodies for our protocols.
  • M. Carolina Elizondo:
    • The team is very thankful for all the support that Carolina provided with several protocols, including Western Blot and also with her experience as a iGEM leader. She gave us constant support and stayed with us every time we needed help at lab, also she gave us emotional support for achieving better results when we had troubles at lab.
  • Minerva Castellanos:
    • Minerva Castellanos is a Biotechnology Engineer and Biohacker. Also an iGEM alumni, working in synthetic biology, who has become an entrepreneur to build a new ecosystem to improve Bioeconomy in Mexico and Latin America. She helped us with advice in important. She is also the Co Founder of Scintia, a startup that facilitates the education and research in SynBio, providing innovative and affordable equipment, producing their own reagents as well as sourcing DNA.
Presentation Coaching
  • Kharen con H Helped us with tips on certain aspects of public speaking on our various preliminary presentations.
  • Riyad Vera Carrillo Helped us with the presentation of our project during "Expociencias Nuevo León". He also helped with various laboratory procedures.
Difficult Technique Support
  • Yvonne Càrdenas:
    • Biotechnology student from Merida Yucatan, she helped with the theoretical design of the genetical circuits more specifically in the adaptation of the SCRIBE system. She is right now at Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg in Magdeburg.
  • Maritza Reyes:
    • Biotechnology student from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon that helped to organize the current iGEM team and was fundamental in the creation of iGEM 2018 She is right now at Otto-von-Guericke-Universität in Magdeburg.
  • Diego Valadez:
    • Computer science student with experience in synthetic biology. He obtained this knowledge from iGEM High School CIDEB. He was fundamental in teaching the basics in iGEM competition, and for achieving the idea of the project.
  • Adrián Rodríguez:
    • Biotechnology student, fundamental for the interaction between faculty and the iGEM for achieving lab working spaces.He couldn’t continue with the iGEM 2018 team because of different international opportunities, he is right now abroad at Ostfalia University of Applied Science in Wolfenbüttel.
  • David Acevedo Villarreal:
    • Computer Science student. He was fundamental with the design of code for the wiki. He worked hard this last semester in enhancing at the best possible level our wiki. We thank him for all the tremendous time invested for helping us with the wiki.
  • Maru Reyna:
    • Biotechnology student that helped us to obtain important materials for the molecular biology and genetic engineering protocols and she provided us direct contact with AMEXCID for obtaining two flights from a governmental sponsorship for two team members.
  • Ingrid Anaya:
    • Biotechnology student that helped us in different topics in the project, thanks to her enrolled into the Conexion Tec competition where we got first prize, helped to get connection with different researchers and for its kindness and constant support.
Human Practices Support
CECROPIA
  • Gabriel Franco Provided priceless help giving us the locations of the samples and gave us valuable council before, during and after the sample gathering.
  • Juan Carlos Franco Provided priceless help giving us the locations of the samples and gave us valuable council before, during and after the sample gathering.
CONANP (Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas)
  • Adrián Méndez Barrera Regional Director of the Southern, Isthmus, and Pacific Borders - Helped us with the transportation and tutoring before the sample gathering.
  • José Velázquez Martínez Risk Management Unit of the Regional Office - Helped us with the transportation and tutoring before the sample gathering.
  • Fabiana Dinora Arevalo Zenteno Helped us with the logistics of the sample gathering.
  • Martín de Jesús Hernández Ramírez He was with us during the second and third day of sample gathering. Gave us priceless advice and help during the whole journey.
  • Félix Gómez Gónzalez He was with us during the first day of sample gathering. Gave us priceless advice and help during the whole journey.
Concretos Modernos del Sur
  • Ing. Alejandro Escanero Provided priceless help planning the sample gathering. Gave us valuable council.
  • Geologist Fernando Ochoa Guillén Provided priceless help planning the sample gathering. Gave us valuable council.
Hospitality and kindness
  • María del Socorro Ochoa Guillén She and her family provided food and accomodation during the journey to Chiapas. Her hospitality was amazingly received. She carried the water samples from Chiapas to Monterrey, keeping them cold and safe during the journey.
  • Jaime Leonardo Lara Martínez He helped us with the transportation of the first day. Provided priceless help during the organization of the journey.
Design Team and Wiki Support
Design Team
  • Luis Javier Treviño Valdez, Braulio Omar Miranda Martínez, Melissa Castillo Almaguer, Erika Morales Toledo, Martha Karina Godina García, Sergio Alexis Espinoza Benavides. They helped with the design and creation of almost all of the elements found in the Wiki, presentation, poster, social media, and events organized by us. With their vision and creativity, we were able to create an identity to present ourselves towards the general public. Besides, Braulio Miranda was of huge importance for the iGEM National Congress of Science 2018.
Photos and Video Content
  • Enrique García and Miguel Domínguez provided breathtaking shots of our university and city filmed with a drone, content that helped us enormously on social media and Wiki content, such as our Facebook cover video and our homepage video loop.
  • Content Diffusion Team @ Tec de Monterrey Many of the pictures that appear on this Wiki were taken with the high-quality equipment of our university's Content Diffusion Team, to whom we say thanks for their time and support on different ocassions.
Wiki
  • David Acevedo Villarreal Greatly helped the team with the development and functionality of various sections and elements of the wiki. For example, the functionality of menus, navigation mechanics, responsiveness, and other elements, pulling off some all-nighters to ensure our success.
  • The slideshow images and videos on this wiki were implemented using adapted code from the 2018 Purdue team.
Fund Raising Help and Advice
GDX Holdings and LADESA
  • The whole team thanks GDX Holdings and LADESA for their help, and financing, of our Airbnb accommodation and assistance to the team.
GoFundMe
  • Special thanks to: Sandra Lara Kelly, Eduardo Sánchez, Abril de León, Jonathan Magana (MACI), Francisco González Rodríguez, José Oropeza, Xitlally Rivero, Sandra Ávila, Sofía Lara, José Arnulfo, Ana Lasso de la Vega, Roberto Vázquez, and all the anonymous donators that helped us.
Agencia Mexicana de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AMEXCID)
  • Embassador Agustín García-López Loaeza, Executive Director of the Agencia Mexicana de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AMEXCID).
  • PhD. Martha Navarro Albo, General Director of Technical and Scientific Cooperation (DGCTC) / AMEXCID.
  • BA. Cristina Ruiz Ruiz, Deputy General Director of Cooperation with Europe, Asia and North America of the DGCTC / AMEXCID
  • MA. Bruno Hernández Piché, Director of Cooperation with Europe of the DGCTC / AMEXCID
  • BA. Laura Galindo García, Consultant for Cooperation with Europe of the DGCTC / AMEXCID· Embassador Agustín García-López Loaeza, Executive Director of the Agencia Mexicana de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AMEXCID)
Thanks and Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
  • The PNG logo of SnapGene used in our footer was originally uploaded by the Duesseldorf team.
  • A PDF protocol (Western Blot) uploaded by the SYSU-MEDICINE team was used in our notebook page.
Thanks
  • Leaders:
    • Thanks to Ana, Nufo, Nora, Carlos, Victor, and Alan for guiding the team through this beautiful, yet stressful, journey. This project wouldn’t have been possible without their leadership.
  • Dry Lab:
    • We thank Ana, Nufo, Carlos, Victor and Alan for their nonstop brainstorming and thorough research regarding the synthetic design of our project. Their ingenious ideas during the development phase were more than fundamental.
  • Lab Work:
    • Special thanks to Carlos, Andrés, Adrián, Sofia, Victor, Nufo, Ana, Jesús, Esteban and Samantha for devoting their time and effort to carry out various experiments and tests for our project.
  • Mathematical Model:
    • Juan, Andrés, Roberto, and Liz brilliantly designed the mathematical model that explains our project. Special thanks to Juan for carrying out the computational simulations that allowed us to characterize parameters.
  • Human Practices:
    • Without Sofía, Human Practices wouldn’t have had such an enormous impact on our project, the south of Mexico and ourselves. Thanks, Sofia.
  • Wiki:
    • Esteban and David Acevedo were in charge of the development and functionality of the wiki, pulling off some all-nighters to ensure our success.
  • Public and Educational engagement:
    • We are very grateful to Miriam, Valeria, and Miranda for committing to take our project beyond the lab by creating spaces were science could be discussed and spread among people of all ages.
  • Design:
    • We thank Nora, Samantha, Melissa Castillo Almaguer, Luis Javier Treviño Valdez, Erika Morales Toledo, Martha Karina Godina García, Braulio Miranda and Sergio Benavides. Without their animation and design skills, we would not have such beautiful visual support for our Wiki and presentations
  • FEMSA Biotechnology Center:
  • The FEMSA Biotechnology Center in the Tecnológico de Monterrey integrates researchers from several academic departments to create interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary groups. Also, it's dedicated to the generation of research, knowledge transfer and business design models in food and biotechnology areas. It emerged 20 years ago as a response to the growing trend in scientific and technological innovation in the country and the whole world. Through time, the Biotechnology Center has developed lines of biotechnology research directed toward the innovation of processes, products, and services.

    School of Engineering and Science: integrates talent, infrastructure, and curriculum designed to provide the best educational, research and knowledge transfers in Mexico and Latin America. Our school combines science and technology to create value and quality of life in society, and sustainable processes are performed with the highest degree of social responsibility. Thus, our motto "Integrating Science, Technology and Business" describes the vision of outcomes generated in every academic program.

    We thank the Rice University faculty for providing us the opportunity of presenting at the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium, which was important as a first interaction with international research community. ,especially to:
    • PhD. Rachael Eaton
    • PhD. Susan Cates
    • PhD. Joff Silberg
    • Dean Seiichi Matsuda
    • Miguel Ángel O. S.

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