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
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