Sabbatical in Costa Rica

Thanks to a Fulbright award, Dr. Ontiveros will spend 4.5 months working as a visiting researcher at the National Center for Advanced Technology (CENAT) in San José, Costa Rica. Working in collaboration with Dr. Yendry Corrales at the Nanotechnology Lab, he will costumize PETL microfludic devices to address proyects involving bacteria and nanoparticles. CENAT is a top research institute in Costa Rica, featuring some of the best researchers in the country and an impressive array of modern equipment, from HPLC, RAMAN, 3D microscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopes, to bacterial and mammalian cell culture. In fact, the strength of the institute is its multi-disciplinarity, with biologists, chemists, physicists, computer scientists and engineers working in the same building and sharing both equipment and expertise.