APPLIED RESEARCH AT THE INTERFACE OF
NANOTECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
The Nano-Biotechnology Research Group does research inspired in nature with a focus on designing complex systems through the understanding of interactions between living and synthetic components. The NBR Group applies techniques in the fields of Nanotechnology and Systems and Synthetic Biology to advance in the development and design of therapeutics, materials, alternative and clean energy, and contribute to increase the world’s food and water supplies.
Synthetic Biology in the Design of Microorganisms to Solve Medical and Environmental Challenges
Development and Discovery of Therapeutic Agents through Synthetic Ecology Approaches
Development and Design of Therapeutic cocktails through the Unraveling of Action Mechanisms
Design and Development of Intelligent Materials for Diverse Applications Using Green Processes
PEOPLE
J. Ruben Morones-Ramirez
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NEWS-EVENTS
Jul 1, 2017
Ruben obtains the Infrastructure Grant and the Frontier in Science Grant, two mayor national grants from the National Science and Technology Research Council<...
Jun 4, 2017
The Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León wrote a piece on Vida Universitaria Magazine about the Nanobiotechnology Research Group!!! Group at the Biotechnology Vanguard!
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Jun 15, 2017
The NanoBiotechnology Research Group hosted 15 undergraduate summer students, part of PROVERICyT and the Delfin Program, from all over the country.
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Jun 1, 2017
Ruben gives a talk on the Synthetic Biology Circuits to control Metabolic Flux in Scaled Up Systems at the Innovation Match MX 2016-2017.
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PUBLICATIONS
Bacterial Exopolysaccharides as Reducing and/or Stabilizing Agents during Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles with Biomedical Applications
Carlos Enrique Escárcega-González , Javier A. Garza-Cervantes, Augusto Vázquez-Rodríguez and José Rubén Morones-Ramírez. International Journal of Polymer Science, 2018 (7045853). (2018)
Microbial competition between Escherichia coli and Candida albicans reveals a soluble fungicidal factor
Cabral, D. J., Penumutchu, S., Norris, C., Morones-Ramirez, J. R., & Belenky, P. Microbial Cell, 5(5), 249 (2018).
Highlighted in: CONACyT Prensa, Química UNAM.
Microbial Competition of R mucilaginosa UANL-001L and E. coli increase biosynthesis of Non-Toxic Exopolysaccharide with Applications as a Wide-Spectru
Augusto Vazquez-Rodriguez, Ximena G Vasto-Anzaldo, Daniel Barboza Perez, Eduardo Vázquez-Garza, Héctor Chapoy-Villanueva, Gerardo García-Rivas, Javier A Garza-Cervantes, Jéssica J Gómez-Lugo, Alma Elizabeth Gomez-Loredo, Maria Teresa Garza Gonzalez, Xristo Zarate, Jose Ruben Morones-Ramirez. Scientific reports 8.1:798 (2018).
Highlighted in: Ambiente Plástico, CONACyT Prensa, Química UNAM, El Norte, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, El Siglo de Torreon, Prensa de Baja California.
In vivo antimicrobial activity of silver nanoparticles produced via a green chemistry synthesis using Acacia rigidula as a reducing and capping agent
Carlos Enrique Escárcega-González, JA Garza-Cervantes, A Vázquez-Rodríguez, Liliana Zulem Montelongo-Peralta, MT Treviño-González, E Díaz Barriga Castro, EM Saucedo-Salazar, RM Chávez Morales, DI Regalado Soto, FM Treviño González, JL Carrazco Rosales, Rocío Villalobos Cruz, José Rubén Morones-Ramírez. International journal of nanomedicine 13:2349 (2018).
Highlighted in: The London Times