Miguel Ángel Galindo Cuesta

Personal Website: https://wpd.ugr.es/~magalindo/wordpress/
Dr. Galindo's research focuses on the development of hybrid metal-DNA systems that could find applications in nanoscience. DNA molecules are customized with artificial nucleobases to guide the interaction of metal ions towards Watson-Crick positions, where natural hydrogen bonds are replaced by metal ions. Thus, DNA systems are obtained that are capable of self-assembling naturally, and that can later incorporate continuous arrays of metallic entities inside. These metal ions can bring new properties to these DNA molecules, such as luminescence, conductivity, catalytic capacity and/or cytotoxicity.