José A. Mascorro, B.S.
Research Assistant Professor, Structural & Cellular Biology
Biography
Teaching Interests:
Medical Histology and Neural Sciences for medical students; Medical Histology for graduate students.
Research
Embedding techniques for biological tissues; the study of viscosity in the various embedding media components; designing novel embedding media formulations based on viscous character
Contributions
Mascorro, JA. Novel choices for formulating embedding media kits. Scanning Microscopy, 2009. M. Postek et al., Editors. Proceedings of SPIE, Vol 7378: 1-10, 2008.
Mascorro, JA and Bozzola, JJ. Processing tissues for ultrastructural study. Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol 369. Electron Microscopy: Methods and Protocols, 2nd edition, J. Kuo, editor, Chapter 2: 19-34, 2007.
Mascorro, JA. The versatility of epoxy resins: Designing embedding media with specific viscosity properties. Microscopy Today, January/February, 36: 2003.
Mascorro, JA. Benzyldimethylamine (BDMA): Catalysts of choice with epoxy embedding media. Microscopy Today, July/August, 47: 2003.
Mascorro, JA, Frasch, T and Yates, RD. Placing TEM negatives in the digital domain. Microscopy Today, May/June, 2-3: 2002.
