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What is your name?
Eugenio Contreras Castillo
What is your current position?
PhD student
Which institute and country do you work in?
Cell Physiology Institute, National Auotnomous University of Mexico
What is your home country?
Mexico
What are your research interests?
Molecular mechanism regulation of T cell tolerance, biology of the thymus, neuroimminology
Tell us about yourself and your research interests:
I am a passionate student in Immunology, working with Treg and the mechanisms that govern its stability under inflammatory biology. I studied biology because I was very interested in understanding the mechanisms behind how cells work. Later I discovered Immunology and I found a field in biomedicine that required the integration of many areas of biology. I did my undergraduate thesis working with human monocytes and how they were affected by different oxygen conditions. Later I joined the Licona-Limon Lab at UNAM, to pursue my master’s and PhD studies to study how T regulatory cells maintain their identity and suppress under inflammatory conditions. I firmly believe that through education we can transform our society and that young scientist need to be heard. During the pandemic, I was the co-founder of two projects that promoted scientific discussion while giving voices to people who did the science: Public Journal Club and Open Box Sciences. Two initiatives that promoted scientific discussion free and open discussion for everyone. I am also the host of the Antibbudies podcast.
What are your online profiles?
LinkedIn – Eugenio Contreras Castillo
X – @Eugecc
Immunology Keywords:
T cell, Tolerance, Autoimmunity
