We are not only virologists! We also like to do structural biology. In particular, we are interested in thin-section TEM of biological samples. This interest has helped us to open our doors to many people from other laboratories. They can come to learn how to process samples, or we can collaborate to process them for them. At any rate, the goal is to use our TEM expertise to help anyone who wants to collaborate. We are interested in developing new protocols to process “tough” samples and pursuing novel approaches.

 

The collaborative projects that we have established (or that we are establishing) are:

• Finding emerging viruses in tissues of wildlife and laboratory animals (Prof. Christian García-Sepúlveda).

• Ultra-structural changes at the Brain-Blood-Barrier (Profs. Saderi and Salgado-Delgado)

• Ultra-structural changes in plant cells (Prof. Margarita Rodriguez-Kessler).

• Purifying and characterizing by TEM viral particles from San Luis Potosí's sewer systems (Prof. Daniel Noyola Cherpitel) (see image below).

• Characterizing novel phages that kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria (Prof. Fidel Martínez).

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