Sebastián Ayala Ruano

President

 

Education

BEng: Major in Biotechnology engineering and minor in Computer science engineering, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

 

Academic Research

Phylogenetics, Structural bioinformatics, Network Biology, Machine Learning 

 

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Juan Esteban Zurita

SECRETARY

 

Education

BSc in Physics, BEng in Biotechnology and Minor degree in Mathematics at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Ecuador.

 

Experience

Theoretical study of chemical reaction mechanisms using DFT. Molecular biology and phylogenetics. Clifford Algebras. Linear algebra. 

 

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Miguel Ángel Méndez

ADVISOR

 

Education

BSc: Chemistry, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

PhD: Chemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States

 

Academic Research

Nanomaterials, Molecular dynamics, Structural biochemistry of DNA and proteins, Physical Virology

 

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Vinicio Danilo Armijos Jaramillo

ADVISOR

Education

BEng: Biotechnology engineering, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Ecuador

MSc: Agrotechnology, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

PhD: Bioinformatics and Molecular evolution, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

 

Academic Research

Bioinformatics, Pylogenetics, Horizontal gene transfer, Molecular mimicry, Evolutionary Biology

 

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Alex‌ ‌Aguirre‌ ‌Mena‌ 

active member

 

Education

BSc: Biotechnology engineering, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas-ESPE

 

Research Intrests

Infectious diseases, programming, statistics, bioinformatics

 

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Arantxa Ortega Leon

active member

 

Education

BSc in Biology 

Technical University of Loja, Ecuador

MSc. Quantitative Biotechnology

University of Zaragoza, Spain 

 

Academic Research

Metagenomics, Molecular Dynamics, Machine Learning 

 

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César Alejandro Navarrete Mesias

active member

 

Education

BSc. Clinical Biochemistry

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ecuador 

PhD. Student

Biochemistry Programa, Universidad de Chile

 

Academic Research

Infection diseases, Molecular Virology, RNA viruses, Gene expression, Transcriptomics, Biomedical Science. 

 

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David Francisco Dávila Ortega

active member

 

Education

BEng: Biotechnology engineering, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas – ESPE, Ecuador

MSc:  Neurochemistry with molecular neurobiology, Stockholms Universitet, Sweden

MSc:  Data Science, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

 

Academic Research

Bioinformatics, Neuroscience, Proteomics, Artificial Intelligence,  Machine Learning , Deep Learning , Data Science

 

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Francisco Javier Sigcho Garrido

active member

Education 

BSc: Clinical Biochemistry

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

PhD student in Biochemistry program

Universidad de Chile

 

Academic Research

Clinical Bacteriology, Molecular Biology, Genomics and Transcriptomics

 

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Jhony Adrian Atiaja

active member

 

Education

BEng: Biotechnology engineering, Universidad Técnica del Norte  (UTN)

 

Research Interests

Interests: Molecular biology, genomic, metabolomic, bioinformatic, industrial biotechnology

 

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Sebastian Bermudez

active member

 

Education

BSc: Biotechnology

Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam

 

Academic Research

Antimicrobial peptides

 

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Sun Ho Lee Macías

active member

 

Education

BEng: Biotechnology Engineering Graduate. Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas – ESPE, Quito

 

Academic Interests

Bioinformatics Enthusiast, with little experience  with CentOS, Genome annotation.

 

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Arly Camila Armas Jiménez

active member

 

Education 

Bsc: Biotechnology engineering, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas-ESPE

 

Research Interests

Molecular biology, Phytopathology, Bioinformatics, Endosymbiotic bacteria

 

Academic Research

Clinical Bacteriology, Molecular Biology, Genomics and Transcriptomics

 

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Jean Pierre Ramos 

active member

 

Education

BSc: Biotechnology engineering

Universidad Regional Amazónica IKIAM

 

Academic Research 

Molecular Biology, Structural Bioinformatics and Drug Design    

 

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María Fernanda Arias Erazo

active member

 

Education 

Bsc: Biotechnology engineering Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas-ESPE

 

Academic  Interests

Molecular biology, Synthetic Biology, Antimicrobial Resistance

 

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Gabriela Moscoso Ruales

active member

 

Education 

Biological and environmental sciences

Universidad Central del Ecuador

 

Academic  Interests

Molecular biology,  Bioinformatics, Metagenomics

 

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