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ePortfolio of Steven Servín-González

Hello, my name is Steven Servín-González 1st Year PhD and this is my ePortfolio!

Welcome to my ePortfolio, here I will talk about my research and my journey in science.

Hi, my name is Steven I'm a PhD student in the School of Life Science here at the University of Warwick.
I'm a curious and spontaneous person, love science, adventures, jazz and unexpected challenges.

I used to work with microRNAs and their involvement in cervical cancer in Mexico, where this disease is one of the highest causes of mortality in women. Then driven by curiosity and the wish to learn more I found about Synthetic Biology, a newly born branch of science that aims to engineer biological organisms or its products in order to get a benefit from it.

Looking for an opportunity on the field, I decided I wanted to do my PhD on it, in order to learn the state of the art techniques and in a future use this to tackle Cancer and other issues. That's when I met my current project!

Searching for interesting research possibilities I ran into Dr. Hebenstreit's research team and project (now my current supervisor and work), got in contact with him, we discussed the research and talked about good science that we could work with. I got a Mexican Scholarship to do my PhD and Here I am!

The Hebenstreit Group

Noisy Team (Hebenstreit's Lab)

My work is based on biological noise and it's sources; stochasticity in gene expression can alter a cell's phenotype and therefore, many of its functions. A classic example would be; two populations of cells under stress, one (let's call it A) randomly expresses a gene that would benefit it whilst the other ( this one is B) doesn't, in the best case scenario, this gives an advantage to A allowing them to thrive whilst B extinguishes or at least gets badly hurt.

Biological Noise in Bacterias (By Elowitz)

Biological Noise (Elowitz, 2000)

Steven

Steven Servín

L.Servin-Gonzalez@warwick.ac.uk