Team:UPCH Peru/Attributions

Attributions

Our team has been working intensely so that our project represents a palpable solution for crop damage due to frosts. Every team member focused on several aspects of the project, working as a functional network.

Team

Synbio Team

  • Jesus Alexandra Durand Calle (Responsible)
  • Alfonso Matias Rojas Montero
  • Maria Teresa Castromonte Albinagorta
  • Diego Alonso Benites Tan

    • P. nigrifaciens characterization

  • María Carolina Ortiz Cáceres
  • Valeria Alexandra Villar Dávila

    • Freezing exploration

  • Oswaldo Francisco Lescano Osorio
  • Ruben Dario Velasquez Arbieto

    • Low-tech approach

  • Maria Isabel Ruiz Ruiz
  • Ingrid Lizbeth Alarcón Ancajima

    • Biosafety

  • María Carolina Ortiz Cáceres (Responsible)
  • Alfonso Matias Rojas Montero
  • Jesus Alexandra Durand Calle

    • Human Practices team

  • Valeria Alexandra Villar Dávila (Responsible)
  • Elizabeth Sanchez Achulla (Responsible)
  • Jesus Alexandra Durand Calle
  • Maria Isabel Ruiz Ruiz

    • Education team

  • Diego Alonso Benites Tan (Responsible for Educational videos
  • Maria Isabel Ruiz Ruiz (Responsible for Educational Event)
  • Jesus Alexandra Durand Calle
  • Valeria Alexandra Villar Dávila
  • Alfonso Matias Rojas Montero

    • Connections team

  • Maria Isabel Ruiz Ruiz
  • Jesus Alexandra Durand Calle
  • Diego Alonso Benites Tan
  • Oswaldo Francisco Lescano Osorio
  • Ruben Dario Velasquez Arbieto

    • Collaborations

  • María Carolina Ortiz Cáceres (Responsible)
  • Maria Isabel Ruiz Ruiz (Responsible)
  • Jesus Alexandra Durand Calle
  • Valeria Alexandra Villar Dávila
  • Alfonso Matias Rojas Montero

    • Wiki

  • Maria Isabel Ruiz Ruiz (Responsible)
  • Jesus Alexandra Durand Calle (Responsible)
  • Content by all team members

    • Special Thanks

    Synbio

  • The group of the Professor Xiaoxue Wang at Chinese Academy of Sciences (SCSIO), for donating us the vector that will be used for P. nigrifaciens expression.
  • Cristopher Polanco for the help in wet lab experiments.
  • The staff of the Laboratory of Individual Molecules for providing us the space, equipment and materials for our experiments.

    • Low-tech approach

    Rosa Chuchon Cisneros for the help in wet lab experiments.

    Proposed implementation

  • Pamela Obando for the help in explaining us the Canva model.
  • Rosa Chuchon Cisneros for the help in searching for patents.

    • Human Practices

  • Agricultural engineer William Carrasco, director of the Institute of Agricultural Innovation (INIA), for accepting our interview.
  • Meteorologist engineer Nelson Quispe, deputy director of weather forecasting at SENAMHI (Peruvian National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology), for accepting our interview.
  • The farmers of PiOc and Huasahuasi communities of Junin department for sharing with us everything related to the impact of frosts in their lives.
  • Silvestre Group company for meeting with us and letting us know the impact of our project.

    • Education

  • Prof. Hugo Flores for the feedback in the educational dynamic for high School students.
  • The high schools "Proyecto" and "Sollertia", Journal Club Peru and everyone who help in the diffusion of our Educational Event.
  • Norma Jara Arellano for the drawings of the team members and Valeria’s grandma for the Educational videos.
  • Claudia Palacios Sánchez for her help in developing diffusion material for our SynBio Education event.

    • Connections

    Connections team of the National Program of Scholarships and Educational Credit (PRONABEC in spanish), specially Fredy Ruiz Condori, for the help in the diffusion of our project and of the voting link for the Sponsorship contest.

    Mentors

    We also want to thank Maria Ugarte, part of the Mentorship program offered by iGEM, for helping us take into account several points of the bacterial growth, and for the several recommendations for a good performance in the competition.
    Moreover, we thank everyone who voted for us in the GenScript-Molecular Cloud Sponsorship. Every vote helped us win it in September!

    Sponsors

    We thanks and appreciatte the opportunity that iGEM gave us to try new softwares and have the opportunity to reach our sponsors for this competition.

    Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
    Laboratorio de Moleculas Individuales
    MolecularCloud
    GenScript
    IDT
    Benchling
    SnapGene
    Twist-Bioscience
    Matlab