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 and process the samples for them. At any rate, the goal is to use our TEM expertise to help anyone who wants to collaborate. We are interested in generating new protocols to process “tough” samples and to do novel approaches.

 

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

• Finding emerging viruses in tissues of wild-life and laboratory animlas (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).

• Ultra-structural characterization of erythrocytes of sick and healthy turtles (Prof. Vanessa Labrada-Martagón).

• The generation of novel software for the automatic detection of damaged organelles (Prof. Mejía-Rodríguez).