Guanajuato, Gto., July 11, 2017.- With the ethical commitment to improve their environment, the student of the University of Guanajuato (UG), Ana Cristina Rincón Pérez works in several projects that fuse science and art, this, with the purpose to contribute to a social benefit by encouraging in children the taste for knowledge.

Ana Cristina is the ninth semester of the degree in Experimental Biology, one of the aspects that led her to study this degree is that when she was a little girl, she would help her mom in the language therapies she gave to children with a disability. The student began to question on the biological origin of the illnesses, all that led her to study what she is about to finish.

The student will start a new challenge within her academic trajectory, she will make a 4-month research stay in Portugal, where she'll study the neurobiology branch. In an interview, she mentioned: "Specifically, I'll be working with cells called astrocytes, I will seek what is the role of this cells in the learning and cognitive processes in people with autism, Alzheimer and children with learning alterations."

Entrepreneurism is a characteristic of Ana Cristina Rendón Pérez, which is why besides her academic studies, she makes other activities who have led her to discover that knowledge has no boundaries and that the disciplines can be combined to widen panoramas and obtain a more comprehensive formation.

Thanks to this, she is part of the Science Clubs, to which she referred as "a platform for the student community to take courses in foreign universities and national researchers. This propitiates an interest in the youth to participate in science, since the activities are aimed for the higher education students". Likewise, she is part of the team Espiral: University Forum, where she develops artistic and scientific activities aimed for children.

Also, together with a multidisciplinary team formed by several universities, she obtained the silver medal in the most important international interuniversity competence in the world on Synthetic Biology: The Giant Jamboree 2016 held in Boston, Massachusetts (US). They obtained the medal thanks to a project that seeks to solve the actual problems regarding sepsis –a potentially deathly affection that emerges when the organism responds to an infection damages tissue and organs—caused by infections in burns.

On the matter, she mentioned: "most of the cases of burn deaths are because of skin infections because the skin is very sensitive. That's why we decided to work in a project that improves the patient's conditions."

To finalize, she invited all the student community of the University of Guanajuato to occupy their time not only in studying their degree, but also invest their time in involving in other disciplines and make activities that please them and contribute to their environment.