Lab team

Belem, Alessandra, Jair, and Elisa researched protocols, developed the experiments, and managed inventory.

Human Practices team

Judith, Elizabeth, Marifer, and Arlen carried out interviews with stakeholders, managed social media and developed education strategies.

Wiki team

Alejandro, Elizabeth, Marifer, Denisse, and Saghir were in charge of the coding of the wiki.

Model team

Denisse, Alejandro and Arlen developed a system of ODEs that described the expression system. They also made the industrial scale-up of our process in SuperPro Designer.

Entrepreneurship team

Jesus, Arlen, and Saghir developed the business model for the implementation of our product.

We thank our instructors, who guided us throughout the project and helped us overcome the difficulties we faced.

Ph.D. Cynthia Lizeth González Trevizo

She is our primary PI. She has been a huge support for the project development. Thank you for always guiding us to overcome the challenges we faced. We wouldn’t have gotten this far without your motivation and feedback.

Ph.D. Carlos Enrique Hirales Casillas

He is our secondary PI. He has been our right hand person on the lab experiments and answered our doubts.

Eng. César Ibrahym Rodríguez Fernández

For helping us to better understand how the competition works: for helping us in the parts design, in the lab, in hardware and on the wiki. Also, for always being there when we had doubts and for encouraging us to fulfill our potential.

Eng. Viana Isabel Pérez Domínguez

For patiently instructing us on how to initiate the experimental design, for being a guide in lab experiments and being an emotional support for us.

Daniela Oloño Fierro

For teaching us and accompanying us at the beginning of our experimental phase. Also, thank you for encouraging us not to give up.

Eng. Ana Victoria Gutiérrez Reyes

For helping us to start networking. Thank you for providing another perspective of our activities.

Eng. Ana Laura Ortega Ceniceros

For her availability to answer our questions. Thank you for your feedback on our planning of human practices activities.

Eng. Andrea Acevedo Guaderrama

For sharing with us her experience in the competition and encouraging us to improve each of our activities.

Eng. Joel Orlando Hernandez Ramos

For sharing with us his experience in the competition, and giving feedback to our work.

M.Sc. Alan Hernández

For being the living example of how one should be an entrepreneur and following our progress.

Ph.D. Roberto Olivares Hernandez

For giving guidance and mentorship to a team with no prior experience on the subject.

M.Sc. Gerardo A. Silveyra Sáenz

For helping us with our experimental design and with the statistical analysis of our data.

M.Sc. Carmen Rocio Maldonado Barraza

For motivating us since the beginning and keeping an eye on us.

We thank our advisors for sharing all their knowledge and experience with us. Thank you for being a technical and emotional support for us.

Eng. José Francisco Greco Flores

For being the lift that the wiki needed and helping us bring the creative design to life.

Eng. Felipe Rafael Garcés Fiallos

Thank you for giving us your knowledge about the oomycete and your help with the development of the project.

Marlen García Bustillos

For helping and guiding the entrepreneurship in their work.

Sayuri Fabiola Sandoval Estrada

For always cheering us. Thank you for providing mentorship on our business plan and for your enormous support on our entrepreneurship, specially during the last days.

Eng. Ivonne Hernández

For always providing us the equipment that we were going to use, keeping an eye on us and always being cheerful even when it was 7:00 A.M.

M.Sc. Ana Carolina Apodaca

For always welcoming and supervising us with patience. For helping us in what we need and motivated us on remaking positive.

Ph.D. Silvia Lorena Montes Fonseca

For providing us mentorship, supervision and helping us in case we didn't know how to do something at the lab.

Ph.D. Manuel Román Aguirre

For helping us with mentorship and doubts about the final presentation of our project.

Ph.D. Claudio Ríos Velasco

For providing us the pathogen we used for our project.

David Hinojos

For helping us to obtain the pathogen and teaching us how to properly manage it.

PhD Antonia Luna

For her kindness and support to help us access a microplate reader. Also for helping us troubleshoot during our failures.

Eng. Alejandro Aguirre Hernández

For his support and feedback reviewing our protocols and experiments.

Octavio Flores

For helping us to contact producers, and giving us your time and knowledge about wilt.

Fernanda Garcia

Thank you for helping us spread the word about the events and for participating in each one.

Martin Gomez

For helping us organize the conference in the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Forestry and encouraging students to attend.

Instituto Chihuahuense de Educaciòn para adultos ICHEA Blanca Gabriela Baquera y Alfredo Ramirez

Thank you for your enthusiasm for the project and for helping us to translate our didactic material and distribute it to the Tarahumara and Tepehuanes communities in Guachochi and Guadalupe y Calvo.

Secretaria de Desarrollo Rural

For taking the time for having a talk with us about the necessary regulations of our project.

Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua

For giving us the space to have conferences in various faculties such as Facultad de Zootecnia y Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Agricolas y Forestales and Facultad de Ciencias Agrotecnológicas. Additionally, for providing us with support so that science can be disseminated and be accessible to all.

Elementary School Carmen Serdan

For giving us the space to talk with the children about synthetic biology and biotechnology.

Ramiro Gardea Rodriguez and Rosa Saenz Hernandez

For lending us a place to hold the Agrohack and helping us with the logistics of the event.

Fernando Felix Flores and Nathale Olivas Dorantes

For taking the time of your class to carry out the Mini iGEM activity.

Francisco Cruz Pérez

Thank you for translating our comic and manual into Raramuri and allowing us to make science more inclusive and impact more people.

Lorena Javier Sánchez

Thank you for translating our comic and manual into Odami and allowing us to make science more inclusive and impact more people.

Hortensia Ortiz

For providing us contacts for our education activies. Also for giving guidance on how to make first approach.

Adrian Quezada and Oswaldo Olivo

For providing mentorship on intellectual property.

María Cristina Torres Espinosa

For her guidance on the Nova Orion Pre-Incubation program and sponsorship to phase 2.

Luis Alberto Tellez Acosta

For helping to take pictures for our landing page.

María Fernanda Moreno Romero

For her guidance in the exportation and permit section of our business plan.

Alfredo Delgado Montes

For helping us to document the Trade Mark Process.

Our families and friends

We know they were some long months absent from you. We are really thankful for all the support and patience you gave us and for being by our side when we needed to be heard.

Alicia Balbuena

For always bringing us joy, support, company and a beatiful smile (And we don't forget the many lolipops you gifted us!).

Eng. Dana Gómez

For your feedback on the presentations and for inspiring us.

Ph.D. Alberto Aguilar Gonzalez

Thank you for supporting us during the development of the project. We appreciate the workspace you have provided, the financial support, and, above all, for trusting and believing in us.

Ricardo Sida Tarango

For facilating the acquisition of our Twist sequences.

Lizette Cataño Fernández

For facilating the acquisition of our Twist sequences.

Pablo Espinoza

For his support to the team throughout the project. Especially thank you for your support in the last few days.

Victor Rojo

For providing prizes for our fundraising activities. And also for always supporting your son.

HiTec Organizing Committee

For providing us a space at their event to talk about synthetic biology.

PhD. Alvaro Vargas Cazárez

For helping us to identify problems in our community during the brainstorming phase of our project.

Night Security team

Alberto Zarazua, Gaspar Alvidrez, Abel Rodas and Gustavo Macías are part of our campus' security team. Aside from making an incredible job, they provided us with emotional support, attention, and always kept an eye on us during our all-nighters. We really appreciate all you have done for us, giving you this space is the least we can do.

Alvaro Vargas Cazárez

For helping us to identify problems in our community during the brainstorming phase of our project.

Eng. José Francisco Greco Flores

Who provided help for the code in the wiki Home Page coding.

Eng. Victor Manuel Rojo Moreno

For his guidance for coding on the wiki.

Dania González

For helping us with the comic book ilustrations for public engagement.

Ph.D. Raime Alejandro Bustos Gardea

For helping us with docker and Cello instalation for math modelling.

Luisa Fernanda Reyez Cazarez

She helped us with the graphic design of social media and team member's presentation.

Yoselin Guerrero

For sharing with us your drawing skills and giving life to our representative chilli.

PhD Berenice Oseguera

For providing E. coli strains and feedback for our modeled centrifuge.