2020 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

84 2020 Yearbook Prof. Martín Monteiro (United States) Coordinator of the Physics Laboratory. He presented the webinar “Smartphones: A Tool for Research in Times of a Pandemic,” alongside Dr. Arturo Martí, a professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of the Republic, as part of the webinar series of the Inter-American Network for Teacher Education of the Organization of American States (RIED-OAS), titled “Responding to COVID-19. Teaching STEM in Quarantine,” July 10. Additionally, he presented the papers “The physics of a yo-yo using a smartphone” 9, “The smartphone as a hydrophone” 10, and “A simple determination of Planck’s constant with a smartphone” at the AAPT Virtual Summer Meeting 2020, organized by the American Association of Physics Teachers, July 19–22. Dr. Lorena Betancor (United States) Professor of Protein Technology. She presented the article “Hybrid nanostructures for magnetic hyperthermia-mediated activation of enzymes” virtually at the 2nd International Congress on NanoBioEngineering organized by the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, which took place in Chicago from October 24 to 30. 9 Conducted in collaboration with Dr. Arturo Martí, Professor of Applied Physics at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of the Republic, and Professors Isabel Salinas and Juan Antonio Monsoriu, Associate Professor and Full Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, respectively. 10 Conducted in collaboration with Dr. Arturo Martí, professor of Applied Physics at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of the Republic. Dr. Lorena Betancor (international) Professor of Protein Technology. Eng. Magdalena Ripoll (international) Research teaching assistant at the Biotechnology Laboratory. Graduate in Biotechnology Engineering. Víctor Vaccaro, Engineer (international) Master’s student in the Chemistry track of the Basic Sciences Development Program (Pedeciba) conducted at the Biotechnology Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Betancor. Graduate in Biotechnology Engineering from the School of Engineering. Dr. Betancor served as a judge; Eng. Ripoll presented the poster “Cell-immobilized biocatalysts for glycerol bioconversion” 11 and Eng. Vaccaro presented the poster “Enzyme aggregates for antibiotic degradation” 12 at the Latin X Chem 2020: Twitter Conference, where the community of Latin American chemists from all over the world shared and discussed their research results and advances, September 7–10. 11 Conducted in collaboration with Dr. Erienne Jackson, coordinator of the Biotechnology Laboratory at the Faculty of Engineering, Universidad ORT Uruguay; Dr. Susana Velasco Lozano, researcher in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Zaragoza; Dr. Fernando López Gallego, research professor at Ikerbasque - Basque Foundation for Science at the CIC-biomaGUNE Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials; and Dr. Lorena Betancor, professor of Protein Technology at the Faculty of Engineering, Universidad ORT Uruguay. 12 Along with Fabiana Rey, a student in the Master’s in Chemistry program at the Basic Sciences Development Program (PEDEClBA); Daniela Escobar, a researcher at the Latitud - LATU Foundation; Dr. Erienne Jackson, coordinator of the Biotechnology Laboratory at the Faculty of Engineering, Universidad ORT Uruguay of Universidad ORT Uruguay; and Dr. Lorena Betancor, professor of Protein Technology at the Faculty of Engineering, Universidad ORT Uruguay of Universidad ORT Uruguay. ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES ABROAD 2020