Ana Lorena Morales-Garcia is from Pachuca in Mexico. She got her degree in Chemistry in 2008 at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, which is the State University; Pachuca is the capital of Hidalgo. We are lucky to have Ana here working on the interaction between bacteria. She is photographed here with her co-supervisor, Dr Steve Rolfe of the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences. Ana came to Sheffield in September 2008 to do a PhD with integrated studies, whioch meant that her first year inviolved taking the MSc in Nanoscale Science and Technology, which is offered jointly with the University of Leeds. Ana is mapping individual cells with atomic force microscopy, especially the chemical force variant, in which the AFM tip is coated with a monolayer of polymers or metal. She is also studying bacterial interactions with biofilms. Her work is part of the Cell-Mineral Research Centre of the University of Sheffield.
Email: php08alm_AT_sheffield.ac.uk