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Since our Institution doesn’t impart a course on synthetic biology, we saw iGEM as an exciting opportunity to be part of this incredible community and to learn how to use biology as a tool to improve our world. Our team was formed in February and by March we were brainstorming ideas. In May, we settled on V-TION as our project and by June we were working in the lab. After several months of hard work, we characterized parts in the Registry and developed five new ones of our own design. We reached over 80,000 people with several activities for Public Engagement, and developed an environmentally and socially conscious project based on the feedback and necessities of the stakeholders involved and impacted by Verticillium wilt.
However, none of this would had been possible without the help of several people who we would like to thank.
We infinitely thank all the people who accompanied us during this adventure, who were supporting us in one way or another, encouraging us daily to take this project forward.
We would like to thank Alberto Aguilar for letting us to represent our Institution and providing us the facilities to carry out our project.
We would like to thank Andrea Regina Castañeda for letting us to be part of LiFE and helping us with fundraising activities.
We would like to thank our families for their unconditional support, picking us up late from school, funding our trip, and always believing in us.
And last but not least, we would like to thank our friends for encouraging us, enduring our stressful moments, buying food and stuff we sold to get funds, and being there for us no matter what.
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Grad. Silvia Gomar, Eng. Carlos Monarrez and Eng. Ricardo Márquez For providing us with specific information about cotton crops in the State of Chihuahua.
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Eng. Carlos Zavala For providing the opportunity to interview farmers and more technical advisors that helped us to develop our project.
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Biological Scientist Henrique Retti de Andrade For guiding us through the whole competition.
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Ph.D Silvia Lorena Montes For giving us advice about the encapsulation of our peptides.
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M.S Clint J. Jurke For providing information about Verticillium wilt in canola plants in Alberta, Canada.
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Diana Laura Ponce Loya For her contribution in the development of the Mexican Case analysis and Trademark Report of our project.
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Alejandra Cervantes Escobar For providing advice as well as resolving doubts about the Public Engagement area of our iGEM team.
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Laura Gabriela Velázquez Varela For designing and creating creative content for our Education Manual.
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Principals Luz Estela Pacheco & María de los Angeles Rivas For giving us the opportunity to present a conference to theirs students and letting us to spend time with them.
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Professors Carlos Servando Chávez & Anabel Aguirre For giving us the opportunity to present a conference to the students about “How to apply synthetic biology in your professional field?”.
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Professor Ismene Garcia, Thomas Forsgren and Israel Marquez For allowing us to give a lecture about synthetic biology, our project and about the iGEM competition as a whole.
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M.S. Saúl Ramón Luján For providing us a space during “first international congress on agricultural education”, where we could present our project and get contacts that could help us after that.
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Actuemos Hoy. A.C., TecChMun and MUNMx For letting us participate in the developing of their United Nations models.
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Javier Bolaños For giving us the opportunity to publish in de Riego magazine.
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Secretariat of Rural Development For inviting us to the International Convention of Chilli.
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Channel 28 For letting us appear in its news segment.
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Clubes de Ciencia México, Beautiful Patterns and AMEAS For allowing us to give a conference about our project in their events.
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Chihuahua Autonomous University For letting us give the lecture “The Scope of Synthetic Biology” to graduate students.
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Ph.D. Rafael Camilo Lozoya For introducing us to the mathematical modelling in MatLab.
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Eng. Jesús Manuel Vázquez For resolving doubts about cotton production, as well as allowing us to visit his working area to look at crops and interview producers.
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Eng. Carlos Zabala Responsible for the purchase and negotiation of inputs for United Agricultural Fields. For giving us information on the distribution of agro-inputs and on the way in which the products are applied through irrigation.
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Eng. Alfonso Soto Martinez For providing information about the production and economic income of cotton farming, also for contacting us with agronomic engineers for interviews.
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Jacobo Nielsen For resolving doubts about farming. We also assured his availability for testing our product in a small area of his cotton sowing.
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Eng. Carlos Garcia For resolving doubts about the way that a product is chosen and recommended for cotton farming, as well as helping us contact cotton producers for market validation.
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Sayuri Fabiola Sandoval For providing advice and well as the resolving of doubts about the entrepreneurship area of our iGEM team.
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Eng. Jonathan Acevedo For providing information about cotton cultivation, as well as giving information about the work agricultural crop consultant technician.
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Eng. Elvis Lechuga For providing data about cotton production and Verticillium wilt incidence in our state.
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Eng. Francisco Galindo For providing data about cotton production and Verticillium wilt incidence in our state.
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Eng. Alfonso Blancas For providing information about cotton production in our state as well as some data regarding cotton production.
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M.C Christian Salazar For providing support in the development and validation of a project from the social entrepreneurship standpoint.
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M.B.A. Rocio Ramirez Rubio For advice on the start of the project for the area of entrepreneurship, to explain the basis for generating the canvas of the business model, and basic for entrepreneurship.
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Eduardo Blanco For a video announcement of our project.
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M.S. Ivonne Hernández For providing us with countless reagents and equipment while making sure everything was in order and cheering us up.
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M.S. Ana Carolina Apodaca For always being there for us when we needed help and always doing it with a smile, cheering us up and helping us move on.
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Ph.D. Cristina Sánchez For helping us with the standardization of the SDS-PAGE Protocol.
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Ph.D.Silvia Lorena Montes For providing us supervision and always helping in case we got stuck in something.
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Ph.D. Agustín Corral For providing us the Precision Plus Protein Dual Xtra Standards for our SDS-PAGE gels.
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Ph.D. Alberto Grado Ahuir For providing us ethidium bromide.
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Dyana Tiznado, Rodrigo Ibarra & Santiago Terán For making our job in the lab brighter and always having a positive energy.
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Jose Pablo Rascón For giving us advice in our protocolos.
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Mayra Liliana Gonzalez For being part of the team during four months, helping us choosing the peptides for our project, and being part of the lab team.
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Q.B.P. Diana Patricia Lugo For helping us with the isolation of Verticillium dahliae.
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Q.B.P. Saúl Hernán Rubio For his huge commitment and disposition at giving us the advice and resources to obtain isolated Verticillium dahliae.
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Ph.D. Antonia Luna For sharing her laboratoy equipment at the CIMAV facilities.
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Sarah García For providing assistance in the proper use of equipment at the CIMAV facilities.
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Ph.D. Joan Sebastian Salas For providing assistance at the CIMAV facilities.
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Enrique Antonio Sánchez For helping us navigate through the Harp.js environment as well as synchronizing our code through GitHub.
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Carlos Augusto Ventura Molina For getting us in touch with M.S. Enrique and providing tips on programming.
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Jesús Sierra Hernández For helping with the long coding sessions.
Human Practices
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Grad.Silvia Gomar, Eng. Carlos Monarrez and Eng. Ricardo Márquez For providing us with specific information about cotton crops in the State of Chihuahua.
-
Eng. Carlos Zavala For providing the opportunity to interview farmers and more technical advisors that helped us to develop our project.
-
Biological Scientist Henrique Retti de Andrade For guiding us through the whole competition.
-
Ph.DSilvia Lorena Montes For giving us advice about the encapsulation of our peptides.
-
M.S Clint J. Jurke For providing information about Verticillium wilt in canola plants in Alberta, Canada.
-
Diana Laura Ponce Loya For her contribution in the development of the Mexican Case analysis and Trademark Report of our project.
Public Engagement
-
Alejandra Cervantes Escobar For providing advice as well as resolving doubts about the Public Engagement area of our iGEM team.
-
Laura Gabriela Velázquez Varela For designing and creating creative content for our Education Manual.
-
Principals Luz Estela Pacheco & María de los Angeles Rivas For giving us the opportunity to present a conference to theirs students and letting us to spend time with them.
-
Professors Carlos Servando Chávez & Anabel Aguirre For giving us the opportunity to present a conference to the students about “How to apply synthetic biology in your professional field?”.
-
Professor Ismene Garcia, Thomas Forsgren and Israel Marquez For allowing us to give a lecture about synthetic biology, our project and about the iGEM competition as a whole.
-
M.S. Saúl Ramón Luján For providing us a space during “first international congress on agricultural education”, where we could present our project and get contacts that could help us after that.
-
Actuemos Hoy. A.C., TecChMun and MUNMx For letting us participate in the developing of their United Nations models.
-
Javier Bolaños For giving us the opportunity to publish in de Riego magazine.
-
Secretariat of Rural Development For inviting us to the International Convention of Chilli.
-
Channel 28 For letting us appear in its news segment.
-
Clubes de Ciencia México, Beautiful Patterns and AMEAS For allowing us to give a conference about our project in their events.
-
Chihuahua Autonomous University For letting us give the lecture “The Scope of Synthetic Biology” to graduate students.
Mathematical Model
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Ph.D. Rafael Camilo Lozoya For introducing us to the mathematical modelling in MatLab.
Entrepreneurship
-
Eng. Jesús Manuel Vázquez For resolving doubts about cotton production, as well as allowing us to visit his working area to look at crops and interview producers.
-
Eng. Carlos Zabala Responsible for the purchase and negotiation of inputs for United Agricultural Fields. For giving us information on the distribution of agro-inputs and on the way in which the products are applied through irrigation.
-
Eng. Alfonso Soto Martinez For providing information about the production and economic income of cotton farming, also for contacting us with agronomic engineers for interviews.
-
Jacobo Nielsen For resolving doubts about farming. We also assured his availability for testing our product in a small area of his cotton sowing.
-
Eng. Carlos Garcia. For resolving doubts about the way that a product is chosen and recommended for cotton farming, as well as helping us contact cotton producers for market validation.
-
Sayuri Fabiola SandovalFor providing advice and well as the resolving of doubts about the entrepreneurship area of our iGEM team.
-
Eng. Jonathan Acevedo For providing information about cotton cultivation, as well as giving information about the work agricultural crop consultant technician.
-
Eng. Elvis Lechuga For providing data about cotton production and Verticillium wilt incidence in our state.
-
Eng. Francisco Galindo For providing data about cotton production and Verticillium wilt incidence in our state.
-
Eng. Alfonso Blancas For providing information about cotton production in our state as well as some data regarding cotton production.
-
M.C Christian Salazar For providing support in the development and validation of a project from the social entrepreneurship standpoint.
-
M. C. Rocio Ramirez Rubio For advice on the start of the project for the area of entrepreneurship, to explain the basis for generating the canvas of the business model, and basic for entrepreneurship.
-
Eduardo Blanco For a video announcement of our project.
Lab
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M.S. Ivonne Hernández For providing us with countless reagents and equipment while making sure everything was in order and cheering us up.
-
M.S. Ana Carolina Apodaca For always being there for us when we needed help and always doing it with a smile, cheering us up and helping us move on.
-
Ph.D. Cristina Sánchez For helping us with the standardization of the SDS-PAGE Protocol.
-
Ph.D. Silvia Lorena Montes For providing us supervision and always helping in case we got stuck in something.
-
Ph.D. Agustín Corral For providing us the Precision Plus Protein Dual Xtra Standards for our SDS-PAGE gels.
-
Ph.D. Alberto Grado Ahuir For providing us ethidium bromide.
-
Dyana Tiznado, Rodrigo Ibarra & Santiago Terán For making our job in the lab brighter and always having a positive energy.
-
Jose Pablo Rascón For giving us advice in our protocolos.
-
Mayra Liliana Gonzalez For being part of the team during four months, helping us choosing the peptides for our project, and being part of the lab team.
-
Q.B.P. Diana Patricia Lugo For helping us with the isolation of Verticillium dahliae.
-
Q.B.P. Saúl Hernán Rubio For his huge commitment and disposition at giving us the advice and resources to obtain isolated Verticillium dahliae.
-
Dr. Antonia Luna For sharing her laboratoy equipment at the CIMAV facilities.
-
Sarah García For providing assistance in the proper use of equipment at the CIMAV facilities.
-
Ph.D. Joan Sebastian Salas For providing assistance at the CIMAV facilities.
Wiki
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Enrique Antonio Sánchez For helping us navigate through the Harp.js environment as well as synchronizing our code through GitHub.
-
Carlos Augusto Ventura Molina For getting us in touch with M.S. Enrique and providing tips on programming.
-
Jesús Sierra Hernández For helping with the long coding sessions.
Our Work
Human Practices
- Mariana Rodriguez
- Marlen García
- Carolina Gajón
- Cristina Martínez
- Yara Gómez
Public Engagement
- Yara Gómez
- Mariana Rodríguez
- Marlen García
- Cristina Martínez
- Victor Padrón
- Alejandro Aguirre
Legal
- Cristina Martínez
- Carolina Gajón
- Juan Grijalva
- Dayana Holguín
- Alejandro Robledo
- Cesar Armendáriz
Entrepreneurship
- Marlen García
- Victor Padrón
- Abigail Loya
- María Hernández
Dry Lab
- Carla Payán
- Alejandro Aguirre
- Alejandra Hinojos
- Mariana Rodriguez
Wet Lab
- Alejandro Aguirre
- Abigail Loya
- Alejandra Hinojos
- Carolina Gajón
- María Hernández
Parts
- Carla Payán
- Alejandro Aguirre
Mathematical Model
- Gerardo Granados
- Yara Gómez
- Alejandro Aguirre
- Ximena Cedillo
Wiki
- Víctor Padrón
- Cristina Martínez
- Gerardo Granados
- Carla Payán
- Carolina Gajón
Sponsors
Thermo Fisher Scientific (Mexico) For all the reagents provided.
SnapGene Sponsorship of SnapGene software.
MathWorks Sponsorship of MatLab software.
IDT For synthesizing the DNA sequences of AtPFN1, PsDef1, PsDef1+Erv1p, WAMP1b, and WAMP1b+Erv1p that were required to produce our peptides and carry out our project.
Química Tech For sponsoring us with essentials for the laboratory.
Tecnológico de Monterrey Thanks to our institution for all the support with the competition.
New England Biolabs For providing a BioBrick® Assembly Kit, Q5® High-Fidelity 2X Master Mix, Quick-Load® Purple 1kb Plus DNA Ladder, NEB 5-alpha Competent E. coli, and SHuffle® T7 Express Competent E. coli.