 My name is Saknikte Toledo-Patiño and I'm a postdoc in Professor Larino Unit and I work on protein design and evolution. We studied the evolution of proteins in order to understand them better and once we understand them we can create them synthetically. So we're looking at protein crystals and each single one of them has millions of protein molecules. The reason why we grow them in the lab is because the originals are so small that we cannot see them with the naked eye. We have to diffract them with x-rays in order to elucidate the structures. Those are crystals from an engineered protein, oxyreductase protein that originally binds in AD and after the engineering process it binds a completely different protein that is not bound in nature. The interesting about the crystals is when we grow them in these 96 weld plates it's almost like winning the lottery because you have all these different conditions that are known that my favorite crystallization but you never know if they will ever crystallize. So every time you look one of them is going to be like bingo or not. So it's very fun to look at this sometimes or most of the times you don't see anything growing and once in a while you get like this beautiful image of this beautiful crystal. The reason I call this image planets is because I really see a planet. You see this round beautiful drop with different colors and the light seems like coming from a sun or something and the shade. Something that fascinates me is that we are almost entirely driven by proteins so life is driven by proteins. I see them like these little machines that do everything in the body. They are so different but at the same very similar at the atomic level that it fascinates me how nature can achieve such an amazing variety of functions just using the same building blocks in a sense.