1 .- when they really started working on the "U" de Chile. 1976
While I did something in teaching practical steps for Microbiology in 1969 and 1970, and won a small project of research to study mycoplasma cattle in 1969, in fact I started working in teaching undergraduate and graduate degree in Virology and Immunology in 1976. Year fraught with difficulties in Chile ... 
I tell you why I had to teach immunology. I realized that my dear Professor Carlos Flores del Fierro was half stuck with such materials as his forte was bacteriology, therefore I offered my help in immunology. To my surprise the next day I received a note from Dean Santiago Inostroza Hood where I was appointed professor of immunology at undergraduate and graduate. Obviously I complained, arguing that I came to virology. He replied that times were not for claims, period. I appreciate it because I learned tired of immunological phenomenon, which is very vital. I took a half-dozen immunology courses medical conferences and congresses attended. And attending classes visiting professors, friends of the U Catholic U of Chile, Institute of Public Health, caught it again in an area in eternal progress! In passing, I realized that immunologists colleagues knew much of his mini immune area (genetic, diagnostic techniques), but sometimes did not dominate the generalities of immunology. In 1975, almost went to the Faculty of Science of the "U". Dr. Guido Pincheira I was tempted to make a purely basic virology. A good day at the secretariat of the Faculty of Science, vi llorar desesperadamente a una chiquilla, cuando se fue le pregunté a la secretaria qué pasaba, muy sencillo, la chica estaba apenadísima porque su novio que era de la Dina andaba buscando a su hermano izquierdista, y no precisamente para abrazarlo…!!! Ese mismo día un joven de la administración me pregunto porqué me cambiaba, si era por problemas políticos, como realmente era por problemas personales, me insinuó que los pensara dos veces. Volví a mi escuela y le consulté a mi decano Inostroza quien me dijo que no me convenía porque el gobierno militar iba a cerrar a la Escuela de Ciencias que no eran útiles para el país; además me dijo que en esa escuela con uno que dijera que yo era comunista would be fried, and veterinary everyone I knew would not have such problems. And it was. Not yet stopped to thank my dean Inostroza, who nevertheless said to me, give it hard that lasts longer .... As to the pots Marmicof ...
In teaching I had no major problems, except that the copy was a university, even in a post-graduate course to colleagues, they copied and in its best years young!
In October 1975 came to Chile Dr. Mc Kercher. I had to translate all his talks, the Army of Chile, INIA, Universidad de Chile, Universidad Catolica. Chile Program - California I spent a Ford (last model) with power steering and power brakes, to bring to Dr. Mc Kercher everywhere. The poor doctor was shocked with how to handle the Chileans ... One day we went to Headlands, on the first lap of the way the teacher brought me back ... it seems that I was going really fast ...
Perhaps it is worth remembering that that time separated Virology and Immunology, Microbiology traditional courses. Even created a course in Animal Virology, which continues to this day!
separation had just happened and I put my notes in class instead of Microbiology, Virology, but the secretary of the Department that was itself the secret of deca to me again Microbiology. I scratch the name and broke extensil that was used back then. It seems that Ms. Angelina Soffia accused me, and Mr. Dean called me urgently to a meeting, I told him I could not go because I was working, and that it had returned to Chile, and not go wasting your time on wrongs . I received a note back that I would apply the regulation 5, paragraph 5 of 5 I do not know anything ... and if repeated, the second to the famous regulation threw me of the "U" and could not work more in the administration Public. Things the military government. Put a civilian epaulets and militarized
quickly ... In those years we made a book of Veterinary Virology with Dr. O. Celedon, educational book that included the areas covered in the course of virology. It was the first book with an educational, but was very taken by colleagues who had no virology ... also has a story, because the department head Dr. Lautaro Pinochet V. not authorized, said it would, that students would not go to school ... It was based on a decree of the military government in that university teachers should ask permission to make books. Again ... things the military government of the time ...
started in research with a partnership of $ 100,000 that I won the National Horse. With that capital began my first thesis studying equine rhinopneumonitis. My first student was Victor V. Riveros A good student, complete, was good for the lab, and it was also clinic horses and dogs. But we were two months, and the cells did not grow ... we changed the media, serum, trypsin, we changed everything and nothing. Victor was karate, had patience. I do not so much. One day I threw all the material for cell culture, and started from scratch. And it turned out. I think it was distilled water that was not right ...
At the end of the year I won a project to study equine virus, with which we gave the animal virology in Chile. The project lasted from 1976 until 1982, with a large number of scientific publications, theses, and assistance to national and international conferences. Already at that time had fulfilled the commitment I had with the school and the "U"!
I had very good students in theory, include A. Vicente Muñoz, Patricio G. Manzur, Juan Luis Fabia, R. Nelson B. Acuña, Gonzalo R. González, Francisco Cortes C., Peter S. Smith, Peter Fiegehen C., Conrad M. Malmus, among many good thesis students who dared to work in virology, no easy area, demanding, and with a teacher like me, bad Pula and demanding, to say the least ...
The first congress I attended abroad was to Rio de Janeiro, where in addition to the technical presentations had to talk about the teaching of virology.
In the meantime had been some problems. He went to Brazil Dr. Mireya Gómez L. master's degree in virology from Davis, California with which almost did not manage to work together. And it was Dr. Ofelia V. Celedón recent graduate. She is so far in Veterinary Virology at the "U". It has done very well!
2 .- Travel to Montevideo, Uruguay. Veterinary Medicine, University Republic, 1977
In 1977 I was invited by IICA (Interamerican Institute of Agricultural Sciences to make a support for the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of the Republic in Montevideo. I took a course in virology and immunology for graduate studies and all provided by Pfizer of Montevideo. I spent cell culture and means, and elements for neutralization and hemagglutination inhibition. Everything went well with 10 veterinary students. One Friday I had to get their attention because they were gone the week end (mentally) and was handy around the cell cultures. still have to agree because it seems that no one before had cried like me ... I met
Punta del Este, in good company with the little girl of course ...!
On returning to Chile, the LAN was arrested at the airport, I read in the newspaper the obituary of Dr. Carlos Flores who died in those days. I felt much as we would travel together to Montevideo, he and I Bacteriology Virology. Such is life ...
My stay in Montevideo was no stranger to the political problems of the day. The dean of veterinary medicine was the brother of the president of the governing board. And in veterinary snoring. To know asked me to wear aprons and I wondered why. At last I passed a big huge, and I like a Buddhist monk or something. Di
two talks at the University of equine influenza and equine rhinopneumonitis another. There began my journey with equine influenza! Unexpectedly in one of those talks, highly publicized in the press of Montevideo, the Dean will prevent entrance to a veterinary colleague for the political activism of his father ... And he had been kind enough to give me embryonated eggs and avian viruses to the practical. That day I was half embarrassed and I did find the dean, who told me arguing that I was too nice. I was left swallowed me it entirely!
I tempted me to stay in the "U" Uruguayan invitation did not consider. My destination was different, and in Chile!
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