2 mins

Through the looking glass of Mexican scientists in the United States and around the World.

SCREENING SCHEDULE
Ciencias Cinematograficas
8:00pm  Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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SCIENTISTS

Gabriel Gasque
Gabriel began his research in neuroscience at the National Institute for Psychiatry looking for genetic markers for alcoholism in the Mexican population. He then majored in Molecular Biology at the Morelos State University and did his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He now studies pharmacogenetics of feeding behavior by doing phenotype-base drug screens looking for small molecules that modulate appetite in Drosophila larvae.

Pablo Meyer Rojas
Pablo studied physics in Mexico at UNAM, did a Phd at Rockefeller University on the fly circadian clock and now studies biochemical networks and crowd-sourcing at IBM research.

Octavio Mondragón
Octavio studied physics in Mexico at UNAM and is finishing his Phd at UCSD.

Daniela Narezo Guzman
Daniela studied Physics at UNAM (2003-2009) and afterwards did a Masters (2009-2011) at the University of Twente in Holland in the Physics of Fluids Group led by Pro. Detlef Lohse. This January, she started a PhD there in collaboration with Prof Günther Ahlers Research Group in UCSB, EUA.

Aline Hubard
Aline Hubard is a PhD student in Physics at CUNY (Graduate Center, City College of New York). She received her bachelors in Physics at UNAM. Her research is in the field of granular materials with Prof. Mark Shattuck. Sand, salt, pills, coins, beans, et cetera are examples of granular materials. They can behave both as fluids and solids depending on the circumstances. To study this, she does experiments with photo-elastic materials and then compares them to computer simulations.

Amanda Ochoa-Espinosa
Amanda studied biology at UNAM in Mexico where she began her research career studying Arabidopsis root development. Then she did her PhD at NYU studying how gradients of transcription factors pattern the antero-posterior body axis of the fruit fly Drosophila. She currently makes a postdoc at the Biozentrum in Basel, Switzerland where she takes a cell biological approach to development and studies how the respiratory system of the fruit fly larva develops.