Carolina López Guzmán, Bacteriologist and Clinical Laboratory Technician. I hold a Master's degree and am currently a doctoral candidate in Biomedical Basic Sciences with an emphasis on Microbiology and Parasitology at the University of Antioquia. I am currently working as a researcher in the Malaria group at the university, where I am also pursuing my doctoral studies. I have previously worked as a researcher in the Health and Community group, specializing in placental malaria, and in the Immunovirology group, focusing on HIV. I was a Young Researcher for Colciencias from 2014 to 2016. My research experience has allowed me to train in the handling of molecular techniques, PCR, ELISA, flow cytometry, cell cultures (BeWo, HTR8, Vero), parasite culture (P. falciparum), TUNEL technique, histochemical and immunohistochemical methods, and the use of QuPath, ImageJ, and FlowJo for data analysis. I have worked as a bacteriologist in hospitals in various municipalities of Antioquia. My teaching experience began in 2017 with pre-medical and pre-university courses, and since 2022, I have been serving as a lecturer at the University of Antioquia in the field of Microbiology and Parasitology. I am recently interested in standardizing methodologies for different models in the study of infectious diseases in placental tissue, such as the syncytialization model with BeWo cells, the human placental explants (HPE) model, and the organoid model.