Andrea Martinez Vernon
Synthetic Biology Student at the Doctoral Training Centre
Contact:
A dot S dot Martinez-Vernon at warwick dot ac dot uk
andrea dot martinezvernon at dtc dot ox dot ac dot uk
asmvernon at gmail dot com (Personal)
Education
2014-2018 Synthetic Biology PhD, University of Warwick in collaboration with the universities of Oxford & Bristol
Supervisor: Prof. Orkun Soyer, OSS group, Synthetic Biology CDT
2013-2014 MSc in Systems Biology, University of Warwick
2008-2012 BSc in Biotechnology, Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro (Mexico)
Research
2015 - PhD rotation project titled Rational engineering of synthetic microbial communities under the supervision of Prof. Orkun Soyer (School of Life Science, Warwick)
2015 - PhD rotation project titled 3D printing with bacteria under the supervision of Prof. Hagan Bayley (Chemistry, University of Oxford) and Prof. Kevin Foster (Zoology, University of Oxford)
2014- MSc short project titled Detection of disease using gas-phase biomarkers: a machine learning approach under the supervision of Dr. Richard Savage (Systems Biology and Medical School, Warwick)
2014- MSc short project titled Studying Species Co-existence in a Microbial Model System using a synthetic biology approach under the supervision of Prof. Orkun Soyer (School of Life Science, Warwick)
2012- BSc short project titled Isolation of bacteria capable of degrading gasoline from contaminated soil as part the "Project design and evaluation" module under the supervision of Dr. Ramiro Pacheco Aguilar (Chemistry Faculty, Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Mexico)
2011- Research summer project titled Isolation of halofilic bacteria under the supervision of Dr. Sylvie Le Borgne (Processe and Technology Department, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Cuajimalpa, Mexico)
Skills
Programming/text processing: R, MatLab, Python, C, LaTex
Languages: Spanish, English, German
Interests
Hiking
Squash
Reading historical novels
Watching movies and series
Cooking and baking
Andrea Martinez Vernon
A dot S dot Martinez-Vernon at warwick dot ac dot uk