Hello everyone, my name is Ubaida Adamu from the Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok.
I am a PhD candidate at Center for Genomics, Institute of Life Sciences and Biomedicine. I am currently working on Coumarins biosynthesis and pathways, as well as their accumulations in an in vitro plant cultures.
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Pretty late in introducing myself!
My name is Roberto Calzadilla, and Iām from Puerto Rico. I consider myself an evolutionary geneticist and systems biologist; but worked in infectious disease epidemiology. Officially, Iām a biotechnology graduate student at Harvard. I do work in RNA+evolutionary biotechnology and currently in the middle of a stint in origin of life research (also RNA related).
people you work with/projects on COVID19-related projects:
Iāve been doing research on my own for the last 10 year as a hobby since I dwell in theory and bioinformatics. Regarding COVIDā¦ I worked with COVID-19 all too closely. I was one of the custodians for my countryās pandemic data as I worked as an epi at the PR State Health Department. Every test, case, hospitalization, death, etc. I had to keep eyes on as I was responsible for cleaning the data. I just wrapped up that work and now Iām going to try and do thesis workā hopefully even work with other people for once!
I also intensely study RNA viruses (especially +ssRNA) as these taxa are my ideal model system to study all the things Iām interested in I use them as my model system to study.
Yes, Iām obsessed with RNA in case it wasnāt obvious. 
designing/expressing/testing any enzymes?
I havenāt done wet lab work since my undergradā but I want to get back to it. As it might be inferred from the previous text, Iām gonna adventure into RNA related enzymes. Want to try and get a cell free system working.
Looking forward to contribute!
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Hello Internet!
My nameās Mathew, I am a freelance genetic engineer based in New York City.
I work out of a community bio-lab space and am playing around with circuits built on the genes in the OpenEnzyme (and other) distribution kits. IMO they are an incredibly useful parts resource!
Causes I care about include decentralized science and supporting creative expression for scientists, the same way that artists do.
Peace and happy engineering!
~ Mathew
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Hello, I am new and happy to meet you all.
My name is Martison Budu from Ghana. An MPhil Biotechnology graduate from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Very soon I will start my PhD and would be working on the production of enzymes and itās application in Bioethanol production. I hope to benefit from the experts here when I need some directions and advise.
Thank you all.
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Hello everyone,
My name is Franklin Yengdem Nuokpem. I recently completed my PhD in Molecular Cell Biology of Infectious Diseases at the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), University of Ghana. I am currently a Research Associate at WACCBIP.
My research interests lie in malaria immunology and vaccinology, and my day-to-day work involves expressing recombinant proteins for immunological applications. In addition, I am passionate about making science more affordable and accessible in West Africa, one of my side projects focuses on producing commonly used research enzymes locally to reduce costs.
I look forward to connecting, learning, and collaborating with colleagues and senior scientists here.
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Hi everyone! 
Iām Enrico Calore, recently graduated with an MSc in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University (North Carolina, USA). Iām really interested in how we can apply synthetic biology to develop practical, translational solutions in medicine and biotechnology and make them more accessible around the world.
Lately, Iāve been working on a pipeline for producing thermostable molecular biology enzymes in-house, making it faster, cheaper, and easier for labs to access core reagents (you can find the paper here). We managed to cover key reactions like DNA amplification, transcription, and assembly at just a fraction of current commercial costs.
Iām very happy for the opportunity to present this work at the Reclone Community Meeting on October 22nd and to join this inspiring network of people advancing open and accessible biotechnology. I hope to see some of you there! 
Really happy to connect and learn from you all!
Enrico
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Hello everyone,
My name is Jon Eletxigerra, and I am a teacher in the Chemistry Department at CIFP Don Bosco LHII, a public vocational education and training centre in Errenteria (Basque Country). I have a background in Environmental Sciences, and I currently teach biotechnological pharmaceutical production and quality control in the Higher Vocational Training Programme in the Manufacture of Pharmaceutical, Biotechnological and Related Products.
I am especially interested in open-access resources, biotechnology, gene editing, and in bringing these topics into vocational education through project-based learning. We would love to have access to reagents that could help us produce our own enzymes, reduce laboratory costs, and explore new techniques in gene editing and biotechnological production.
Our goal is to give students access to up-to-date knowledge and more hands-on experience, while also allowing them to experiment more freely and test different solutions in their projects without being so limited by costs.
Iām very glad to be here and look forward to learning from the community and sharing ideas and experiences.
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Hi everyone!
I am Augusto Garcia, PhD student at Javier Santos Lab in iB3, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
The lab studies structural biochemistry of proteins involved in rare diseases.
I also participate in the Centro de ProducciĆ³n de ProteĆnas Recombinantes, where we produce and sell/distribute enzymes at low cost.
So far we have succesfuly distributed M-MLV RT and Taq, which we acquired from freegenes distribution (COVID19/Molecular diagnostic toolkits). We also have a molecular weight protein ladder, which we are trying to pre-stain, and purified RNasin (also freegenes distribution) whose activity remains to be tested.
Some of you I know from the Mendoza and Buenos Aires workshops 
Very eager to get to chat with everyone.
Cheers,
Augusto
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