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Jorge Galindo-Villegas is a postdoc and the F1000 Specialist at the University of Murcia in Murcia, Spain. In the interview below, he tells about what aspects of being an F1000 Specialist he finds most rewarding.

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What are some things you have done as F1000 Specialist?

Being an F1000 Specialist has provided me the opportunity to interact with some scientists that perhaps under normal situation we would never think about interacting. Thus, this gave me a lot of opportunities to expand my network, discuss several issues regarding data search and processing to achieve common ends leading to possible collaborations. Additionally, I have fun talking about a platform that is not directly related to my research topic.

Do you have any tips or advice for other F1000 Specialists?

To take advantage of this opportunity. It’s fun, gives possibilities to expand your network and perhaps the best news is that you could get as a reward a full complementary subscription to all F1000 features, which is simply amazing and of course worth the effort.

Finally, can you tell us a little bit about your work?

I’m based in Murcia University at the Fish Phagocyte and Cytokine Group as a full time researcher. My expertise is focused in fish immunology. However, most of the research is conducted in zebrafish, thus, our findings could be translated from the bench to the bed side. Among the topics are: the vertebrate developmental immunity using hematopoietic stem cells in mutant and transgenic animals which are generated by us. Or, the way in which host-microbe interactions at the very early developmental stage can lead to impairments in the immune system development and further immune deficiencies in the mature life.