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REPU MAGAZINE N 3 EDITORIAL 2017 10 years transforming young Peruvian Scientists Research Experience for Peruvian Undergraduates (REPU) is a program that seeks to empower young Peruvian students to generate a change in our scientific community and to strengthen a long-lasting network of scientists and professionals. Since the last REPU magazine edition, 3 years ago, REPU has experienced many changes. We opened 3 new branches: REPUPhysics in 2015, and EcoREPU and REPUatix in 2016. These have allowed us to expand REPU and to reach more Peruvian students from different areas of expertise and from different regions of Peru. Since their opening, these branches have received 7 amazing students, with more to come in the future. Also, during this period, two of our first REPU alumni have successfully defended their PhD thesis, and are the first PhDs that the program has generated. Congratulations, Kenyi Saito and Sofia Espinoza! In this magazine, you will be able to have a quick glance at our evolution over the last 3 years through our REPU facts. We are also including the REPU Research section, in which you will find a summary of past research projects and current positions of our alumni. In addition to that, we are including articles about our two new home Universities and our new REPU branches. Moreover, we are launching a section of Interviews where we have captured the thoughts and opinions of one of our REPU directors, PhD Edson Bellido, as well as one of our Host Principal Investigators, PhD Nicholas Ingolia. Finally, our former co-director and first REPU fellow, PhD Kenyi Saito, will tell you, from an insider view, what it means to be part of this incredible community. We are sure that you will enjoy this magazine as much as we enjoyed making it. We are looking forward to keep improving this year. Applications for REPU 2019 will be open soon. We invite you to follow us on our social networks pages and at www.repuprogram.org, to find out more information and updates. Editors: Ricardo Gonzales Luz Saavedra Special thanks to: Renzo Gutiérrez Paola Moreno-Román From our last edition, we would like to thank REPU host laboratories so far: Vanderbilt University: Miller, Marnett, Graham, Macara Yale University: Crews, Brudvig, Emonet, Wright, Saltzman, Plata, Reed Texas A&M University: Young University of Navarra: Microbiology and Parasitology, Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry McMaster University: Ayers, Botton, Turak, Buijs New York University: Lehmann UC Berkeley: Ingolia Harvard University: Yang, Pfister Ruhr-Universtität Bochum: Biochemie I - Rezeptorbiochemie General Atomics: DIII-D Fusion Facility Luz Saavedra REPU alumna Yang Lab Harvard University REPU 2017 Ricardo Gonzales REPU alumnus Reed Lab Yale University REPU 2017 University of Missouri - Saint Louis: Parker Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia: Inmunología www.repuprogram.org 2