My current research focuses on environmental microbiology, bacteriology, bioinformatics and virology. I currently TA a group of students in a bioinformatics project on the annotation of genes from diverse species of Drosophila, a project sponsored by the Genomics Education Partnership (GEP). I also work with isolating novel strains of bacteria and bacteriophages from the tropical soils for Puerto Rico. These organisms are purified and then characterized by DNA extraction and sequencing. In addition, we work on a project in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh to determine the gene essentiality towards lytic growth of bacteriophage genes of unknown functions through genome wide mutagenesis.