Milenio articles about BioremLab

This week our Lab has an interview with Milenio (Milenio Group) journalists, where we explain the latest projects which are being developed on Biorem Lab:


Estudiantes trabajan energía renovable

UA de C investiga energías alternativas


These are the first two articles of our group in the year, even this do not reflect the Lab productivity, this kind of articles help us to publicize the work that we are doing. 


I let u a list of previous articles about our group, about the work done by our friends Cheve, Natalia, Arge, Sarahí, Ale, Aldo, just for quote some of them:


University of Georgia and Mexican Universities focus on production of Biofuels in the agricultural sector.  (June, 2008)


Estudian las propiedades energéticas del Metano. (November 2008)


Buscan nuevos métodos para producir biogas. (November 2008)


Intercambio académico estudiantil en la UA de C. (January 2009)


Estudios sobre metano avanzan en Biológicas. (June 2009)

Talk with Diego Alberto Dévora Canales

Last Friday, we were lucky to have the chance of talk with Diego Alejandro, a former student of Biological Sciences (Class of 2008). His talk was very interesting. He explained us how he entered in the post-graduate program of CINVESTAV, Monterrey and explained his thesis project. It is an interesting multidisciplinary work.

  

His talk was really interesting. He explained how he study the motility of Trypanosoma cruzi and identify its relation to other known movements such as Brownian Motion and the Levy's Flight. His thesis work is related to one of your topics we discussed in March edition of BioSciences. For those who have forgotten, can consult the article about Chagas disease, entitled: Un mal que parece olvidado, la enfermedad de Chagas.

I do not even imagine that birds use mathematics to find food!!!

Diego's emails:
adevora@cinvestav.mx
die_go1984@hotmail.com








And... if you get lost in the woods... now you know how to survive:







Levy Flight (you will survive)                



 

        Brownian Motion (sorry for you)

Visita y Prácticas con estudiantes del Excelsior

La semana pasada, tuvimos la visita de estudiantes del Colegio Excelsior a Biorem Lab, los estudiantes pudieron estar en contacto con los integrantes de nuestro equipo de trabajo, realizaron 4 sencillas prácticas con el Microscopio de Fluorescencia, el Cromatógrafo de Gases, el Humedal Artificial Híbrido de Melisa y el Reactor UASB de Sol.


Esperamos que algunos de estos estudiantes se interesen en Ciencia, y que comiencen pronto su carrera como investigadores, recordemos que México está muy atrasado en el desarrollo de Ciencia Básica y Tecnología, así que para todos aquellos que quieran aprovechar las oportunidades que las instituciones mexicanas e internacionales ofrecen para el desarrollo de nuestra profesión, éstas ahí están disponibles, sin embargo, son sólo para los que están convencidos que la Ciencia e Investigación es lo que les gusta hacer, y es su prioridad; y están dispuestos a asumir las responsabilidades que con esto conlleva.


Les anexo unos links para que esten al pendientes de becas:


CONACYT:
http://www.conacyt.com.mx/


Hoy me mandó la Alianza Francesa esta convocatoria para distintas Universidades en París:
http://www.rbuce-up.eu/content/who-can-apply-and-how


Erasmus Mundus también abrió sus convocatorias para Europa:
http://becas.estudia.com.mx/becas+erasmus+mundus+mexicanos.htm#cuatro

Research Stay

IBQ. Argelia Cervantes Ovalle, Master's student of our lab left today to Charleston, WV, USA to carry out part of her thesis work for six months at the laboratory of Dr. David  Huber, Professor, Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, USA. 

Our thanks to Dr. David Huber for accepting Argelia at his lab and for all his help in making her research stay possible.

Our best wishes to Argelia for a fruitful and productive stay in terms of learning and research with Dr. David Huber and hope her efforts will strengthen collaboration between our labs.

LAB interpretation

"Here, we describe a bacterium, strain GFAJ-1 of the Halomonadaceae, isolated from Mono Lake, California, that is able to substitute arsenic for phosphorus to sustain its growth." for me, this means GFAJ-1 can live with Arsenic instead of Phosphorus, or not?

Natalia's Visit: Thank you!!!

Our laboratory was privileged again to see Natalia Montenegro, our colleague and friend. Currently she is in her second year of a master degree in biotechnology at West Virginia State University, along with our dearest friends Cheve and Aldo (Hi! guys), Natalia is part of Dr. David Huber's Lab, and is currently working whit Anaerobic Digestion.
Through a series of photographs, recalling her stay in our school and in our lab, explaining the lasts results of her projects and admiring some landscapes of the city where she lives now, she shared with us her experiences about getting a grand, and also her insight about the opportunities and challenges for Mexican students.
Among other things she told us that when there are something you really want, you should not stop trying, and that a consistent and timely preparation is the key to success in the entrance test. Finally, she concluded that despite the hard work you always have to keep smiling and because at the very end, the attitude is everything. Besides, we enjoy a very tasteful cake cause Ale's B-Day, congratulations to her!!
We're really grateful to Natalia, and waiting for her to come back soon. Cheve and Aldo are welcome to talk to us about their own experiences too, or even so, you can send us a video guys!!!

Atte. Ale & Emilio

Ya caigo (creo)

Luego de haber escuchado diversas explicaciones de los mismo, siempre me parecía confuso el verdadero significado. Explicado desde diferentes trincheras, el término me parecía ocioso. Yo no le veía sentido y mucho menos pensar en explicarle a alguien más el porque. ¡Y es que creo que tengo la respuesta!

Me refiero a ¿por qué el título PhD? Sí, sí unas palabras raras que en español vendrían siendo Doctor en Filosofía, pero porque filosofía? ¿Qué tiene de filosófico estudiar aún cuando puedes conseguir trabajo con el conocimiento que tienes? ¿Qué tan filosófico es crear conocimiento? Me parece que todo depende del individuo y precisamente ahí la tácita respuesta. Sin embargo me gustaría compartir un video explicativo, pues son pensamientos ilustrativos que me parecen simplemente complicados de explicar en un blog.

Sería como dudar del conocimiento existente o inexistente, tirar al diablo la facilidad del conformismo y aventurarse a la libertad del descubrimiento  de más conocimiento.

Vielen Dank Sarahí !!!

Yesterday, we were fortunate that our colleague Sarahí L. Garcia could share with our group a bit of the work that she is doing at the University of Jena in Germany. Besides that, Sarahí shared with us her experience of studying in the U.S. and Germany, the way she applied for her doctorate scholarship & other things. We appreciate the time that you take to visit us Sarahí, Vielen Dank !!!

The Great Dictator

I LOVE THIS SHORT SCENE FROM "THE GREAT DICTATOR", how true is the reallity exposed by Chaplin? I PERSONALLY NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE, IT's AMAZING¡¡¡

Some of the most liked quotes:

- Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to these brutes who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle and use you as cannon fodder!

- You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

- Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!

- MORE THAN MACHINERY, WE NEED HUMANITY, MORE THAN CLEVERNESS, WE NEED KINDNESS AND GENTLENESS!!!

ANGER

Yesterday, I experienced a human feeling often associated with something negative, the worst sensations in human behavior: ANGER, well in fact it was almost king of RAGE. The reasons, of course are personal, however, this event has make me reflect on the nature of anger, according to Jezova et al., (1995) rage occurs when oxytocin, vasopressin, and corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) are rapidly released from the hypothalamus. This results in the pituitary gland producing and releasing large amounts of the adrenocorticotropic hormone, which causes the adrenal cortex to release corticosteroids. The most amazing thing that I found was that oxytocin and vasopressin were related to anger, if oxytocin is mostly of the times called the "love hormone" and vasopressin, which is related to increase the blood pressure (now I realize, why I felt that my blood was boilling meanwhile I was playing my "rage-scene" (not-proud)), but related too, like CRH, to human behavior... so... Is this anger or rage, natural or common in human beings? Or is another i-dont-like inheritance of our pre-humans ancesters which we try to avoid?

I don't know, maybe is a non-desirable feeling, but... In fact is a feeling, that make us humans, am I right? Is like happiness and sadness... no?

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Thomas Fuller