Dr Fátima Linares-Ordóñez

Fátima Linares-Ordoñez works as the Head of the Atomic Force Microscopy Unit at the Center of Scientific Instrumentation, Universidad de Granada (UGR) (Spain). Her current research interests include scanning probe microscopy of one-dimensional DNA-metal systems and the physical properties of surfaces. 

A recent paper Fátima contributed to uses electrostatic force microscopy (EFM) and conducting-AFM (c-AFM) to study the conducting and photoactive properties of multifunctional molecules comprising stacked cytosine-Ag-I-cytosine base pairs in a one-dimensional nanostructure. This publication earned her a Scholarship from Park Systems in 2019.

Additionally, Fátima collaborates in a number of different scientific fields and she has recently contributed to the paper "Biophysical and Biochemical Comparison of Extracellular Vesicles Produced by Infective and Non-Infective Stages of Trypanosoma cruzi" studying the nanomechanical properties of exovesicles.

Dr Fátima Linares-Ordóñez

Recent AFM-related papers:

• Merira, L. R., Prescilla-Ledezma, A., Cornet-Gomez, A., Linares, F., Jódar-Reyes, A. B., Fernandez, J., Vannucci, A. K. I., De Pablos, L. M. and Osuna, A. (2021). ‘Biophysical and Biochemical Comparison of Extracellular Vesicles Produced by Infective and Non-Infective Stages of Trypanosoma cruzi’. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(10), pp. 5183.

• Moreira, L. R., Ramírez, D. V., Linares, F., Ledezma, A. P., Garro, A. V., Osuna, A., Morales, J. L. and Sandi, E. A. (2020). ‘Isolation of Acanthamoeba T5 from Water: Characterization of Its Pathogenic Potential, Including the Production of Extracellular Vesicles’. Pathogens, 9(2), pp. 144.

• Linares, F., García-Fernández, E., López-Garzón, F. J., Domingo-García, M., Orte, A., Rodríguez-Diéguez, A. and Galindo, M. A. (2019). ‘Multifunctional behavior of molecules comprising stacked cytosine-AgI–cytosine base pairs; towards conducting and photoluminescence silver-DNA nanowires’. Chemical Science, 10, pp. 1126-1137.

Biography: Fátima completed her Doctoral Thesis at the University of Jaén (Spain) (2007) before joining the Universidad de Granada (UGR) (Spain). Since 2008, she has worked as postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry (2008-2012) with the Prof. Jorge A. Rodriguez Navarro.

Fátima has also previously undertaken research activities at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) (2004-2005) and the University of Insubria (Italy) (2009).

She further teaches the subject of Electron Microscopy and Characterization Techniques in the Master of Physics, Radiations, Nanotechnology, Particles and Astrophysics at UGR. She currently also works as the Head of the AFM Unit at the Centre for Scientific Instrumentation, UGR (Spain).

Twitter: @Galindo_Lab

Website: METAL & DNA - UGR - Home (weebly.com)

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