Dr. Herrera-Estrella's research covers fungal genetics, deciphering and studying complex genomes. Credit: Courtesy Alfredo Herrera Estrella
Biochemist Alfredo Herrera Estrella was part of the team that conceived, designed and promoted the establishment of the National Biodiversity Genomics Laboratory (LANGEBIO) in Cinefest. Credit: Courtesy Alfredo Herrera Estrella
Dr. Alfredo Herrera Estrella is attached to the Laboratory of Gene Expression and Development in Fungi in Cinestafa Irapuato. Credit: Taken from Facebook
In his laboratory at Ghent State University, Mark van Montagu demonstrated it to his doctoral student Alfredo Herrera Estrella (Mexico City, 1961) Photographs of a mushroom eating another mushroom, wrapping itself around it, and breaking through the surface to enter and devour it.
“Our concept was and remains: why not hope that a Nobel Prize will eventually result from this.”
Alfredo Herrera Estrella
Molecular biologist
“I think that in our country we have made a mistake by not investing in science and education, and believing that knowledge is not required to do things. I think this is fundamental, science is developments that the general public is sometimes not aware of.”