The Beggining of a New Journey

This Semester will be very different at from the others given that I’m on a new research project in the Department of Chemical Engineering under the custody Dr. Patricia Ortiz Bermudez. The project involves the field of nanobiology and primarily consists of developing ant-microbial particles; specifically anti-fungal. This will be done by synthesizing a special peptide functionalized to attack fungal cells. At the present moment we don’t have available this peptide. For this reason we are using and studying a particle composed of magnetite that may have a similar effect of the peptide.

Right now our main goal is to observe the interaction between non functionalized magnetite particles and the fungal cells. If the interactions turn favorable for the research’s objectives, then we can proceed to the fictionalizations of the particles and the peptides eventually.

~ by jctec on January 28, 2009.