Current students
Graduate
PhD Co-Advisor
Laura Alejandra Chong-Guzmán
Veterinary from the Universidad Veracruzana. My research project aims to detect spirochetes of zoonotic importance such as Leptospira and Borrelia in Netoropical bats, with the focus of proposing these flying mammals as sentinel elements that would allow us to collect epidemiological data and monitoring the presence of bacterial pathogenic species that put animal and public health at risk.
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PhD Co-Advisor
Blanca Erika Medina Salazar
Biologist from the Universidad Veracruzana. My interest lies in understanding how altitude and vegetation structure in central Veracruz affect the microbiome within a fruit bat assemblage.
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Master's Advisor
Melisa Andrea Castro-Marin
Biologist from the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia (2022). My thesis was on the echolocation calls of insectivorous bats in the department of Antioquia, Colombia, where we report 34% of insectivorous bats with the implementation of the passive and active acoustic monitoring methodology. My current project aim to evaluate genetic diversity of the hematophagous bat, Desmodus rotundus in Mexico.
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Undergraduate
Advisor
Daniela Isabel Hermosilla Díaz
Bachelor of Science (Biology) from the Biology School, Universidad Veracruzana. Her thesis focuses on the detection of Rickettsia and Borrelia in a community rodents and their ectoparasites in Central Veracruz. Her main interest is the molecular detection of bacterial zoonotic pathogens, as well as their importance in wildlife health.
Advisor
Kevin Gabriel Arias Ventura
Bachelor of Science (Biology) from UNAM. He is currently carrying out his undergraduate research focusing on the selection of food resource of medium-sized mammals in two urban protected areas in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, where species such as Didelphis marsupialis, Bassariscus astutus, Urocyon cinereoargenteus and Procyon lotor have been recorded.
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Co-Advisor
Norma Nohemi Silva Enriquez
Bachelor in Science (Agronomy) from the Agronomy School, Universidad Veracruzana. Her research project seeks to establish a method of horizontal transmission of Beauveria bassiana in Anastrepha ludens (fruit flies), for its implementation in the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in regions of Veracruz, Mexico. His interests focus on the control of insect pests.
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Advisor
Daniela Segura-Trejo
Bachelor of Science (Biology) from the Sciences School, UNAM. Her research work focuses on understanding how water bodies contaminated with urban waste influence the infection of enteropathogens (Salmonella enterica, Shigella flexneri and Escherichia coli) in bat populations. Her interest is the isolation and culture of enteropathogens in wildlife health.
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Advisor
Brian González Mela
Bachelor in Science (Biology) from the Biology School, Universidad Veracruzana. research project is to document in a photographic catalog the diversity of rodents and bats in the Cloud Forest, Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico.
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