Cristina Vilanova

I am a biotechnologist currently doing my PhD at the Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology unit of the ICBiBE (UV). My work in the lab consists in implementing different systems biology - and "omics" - based approaches to the bioprospection of natural habitats.

Lucas J. Morales

I am a biotechnologist.
I am hardworking, cheerful, motivated and like to laugh. My hobbies are playing guitar, reading, watching series and computing.
I found very interesting the part of modeling applied to biology.

Tonny Ruiz

I am Multimedia Engineer. I'm currently working as researcher & software developer at LSyM-IRTIC (UV). I love the job well done, good design, creativity and innovation. In the future, I would like to continue researching in computer graphics for physically based environments.

Guillermo Zafrilla

Hi! I´m Guillermo Zafrilla Requena but everybody in lab calls me Zafri. I think that I´m a freak of technologic or mechanic devices like engines, computers, etc. I joined iGEM because I love doing science and designing new lab devices is a funny challenge for me. I´m very happy this year because it´s my first time as advisor in my team. My professional interests are industrial biotechnology, bioreactors and chemical engineering. I hope that my team will have good results in the Giant Jamboree at Boston!!

Manel Porcar

I lead the Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology lab in the Cavanilles Institute (University of Valencia, Spain). I am the coordinator of the Valencia Biocampus Project. The competition is a very challenging experience; I have been involved in six iGEM editions. I believe that Synthetic Biology will experience many important changes in a close -and fascinating- future: engineering principles will not be taken for granted and evolutionary approaches might replace hype as the driving force of SynBio.

Juli Peretó

I am an evolutionary biochemist working at the University of Valencia, at the Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology. I try to teach metabolism to biotechnologists and I am a passionate of the studies on the origin of life and the history of the ideas on the natural origin and the artificial synthesis of life. The last three years I was the director of the international summer school “Origin, Evolution and Future of the Biosphere” (Erasmus Intensive Programme) and rencently I was named Fellow of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life.

Violeta Beltrán

As a lawyer, I specialize in Intellectual Property and Information Technology. I used to work at the Spanish National Research Council (in Spanish, CSIC), the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe. In particular, I used to work at the Deputy Vice-presidency for Knowledge Transfer in technology transfer issues. Currently I am the lead of the Legal Affairs division at Biopolis, S.L., a biotech company and one of the few spin-off companies of CSIC.

Daniel Ramón Vidal

S.L. My interests are microbial biotech and the production of microbial metabolites. I'm author of more than 100 articles and co-author of 30 patents. I've obtained the European Prize of Divulgation, the Prize of the Danone Institute, and the National Price in Technology Transfer.