Jose F. Garcia Mazcorro, PhD

Important message about COVID-19

To my students from the Clases de Ciencia Gratis and the rest of the world: I was NOT trained as a scientist at Texas A&M University to obey orders without question. Please visit this website from Proyecto Opertum to see how your life and your entire existence was turned upside down without your consent and for reasons other than a "health crisis". Also, visit this website from our colleagues at the Swiss Policy Research and share the fact that local and national governments worldwide lied to their people about this "pandemic". This is a terrible global crime that must be punished, but the path will not be easy. I will do anything within my power to bring the truth to light. Thanks for reading this.

As part of the "new" agenda, me and many others have been blocked in several social media platforms, such as Facebook and YouTube. Visit this channel if you want to know more about this: https://brandnewtube.com/channels/@josefgarciamazcorro. Please do note that BrandNewTube has several issues, you can also see some interesting videos in my Odysee channel here: https://odysee.com/@drpepemazcorro:7.

Welcome to my personal webpage

I am a writer and a Biomedical Research Scientist and I live in the metropolitan area of Monterrey, NorthEast Mexico. I have a degree in Veterinary Medicine but I was never really interested in practicing medicine per se. I got a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University for my work on host-associated microbial communities. I study microbial life (my blog in Spanish), I run a project dedicated to promote Intellectual Nutrition, I am a big fan of nature (see Ecotourism) and I also gathered a few cool phrases just in case you need one.

Becoming a scientist

I studied Veterinary Medicine from 2000 to 2005 and as many others in my generation I did not have a clear life plan. I started helping out in the Laboratory of Microbiology during my first year of Vet School, fascinated by the growth of bacteria in Petri dishes.

In 2006, I temporarily moved to the city of College Station, Texas, USA. By the end of 2006, I applied for a job as a technician in the Gastrointestinal Laboratory at Texas A&M University and somehow I got it. I will always be grateful to Dr. Joerg Steiner, for first giving me a job and believing I could do well in his lab. After a year working in the GI Lab, I was very fortunate to be accepted into a Ph.D. program with Dr. Jan Suchodolski, one of the most enthusiastic and energetic scientists in the field of gut microbial ecology. I will always be grateful to Dr. Suchodolski for accepting me as his graduate student and for believing I could succeed under his mentorship. He and Dr. Steiner introduced me into the scientific field, and my research work will always be dedicated to them.

My work

I think that all life on Earth is amazing but Bacteria and other microorganisms are truly fascinating. My research work is oriented to try to comprehend complex communities of microorganisms, and for this purpose I use common sense and my imagination, coupled with molecular and computational tools (see our publications). Some of our results have been presented in several scientific events and I am part of several professional and other groups. I regularly help scientific journals with peer-review and we are involved in organizing different courses and workshops. I also maintain a small -hopefully useful- electronic library about microorganisms and related topics.

On a broader and more personal sense, I am very interested in microbial biology, especially genetics and co-existence with animal hosts. I consider myself proficient in Biostatistics, I love Bioinformatics and other fields of Biomedical Sciences but I am always pushing myself into other fields. If you feel that I can be of any help, please do contact me (josegarcia_mex AT hotmail.com). I am always happy to chat about tiny life forms, especially the ones living inside of our digestive tracts.