 My field of research is neuroimmunomodulation and neuroendocrinology and how these two fields interact between them. We found this very exciting because to relate this type of bidirectional communication between the brain and the immune system is something that is developing and gaining momentum at this moment. Before, people that neuroscientists basically and immunologists were working separately but the relationship between the two systems is very important for psychiatric conditions for example and the imbalance between these two systems could evolve into psychiatric conditions and for this reason it is very exciting to study in this field. I am working in several projects and at this moment I am supervising new students and the ones that are going to be directly working with me and helping to supervise others that are going to be working in different projects. But one of the particular projects that I am involved at this moment is to understand how high-fat diet and inflammation may promote premature aging. That is one of the projects that we have a lot of interest in and we are very interested also to understand how the combination between the present stress and high-fat diet could evolve into psychiatric disorders. For this type of models I am using rats and mice and in the particular case of inflammatory components we have used a number of knockout animals animals that are deficient for particular key factors that are very important for the action of the immune system. I really would like to see that we understand the basis in more detail the basis of this interaction to the level that we can find new genes, new molecules that could be used for developing new treatments for psychiatric disorders. It is a very ambitious hope but I really dream that one day we will have a breakthrough into this area that eventually will help a number of people that are developing this type of pathological conditions.