Current students
Graduate
PhD Co-Advisor
Blanca Erika Medina Salazar
My research focuses on studying bats through their fecal microbiota to evaluate how landscape, dietary guild, or species biology shape and structure their bacterial communities. Using this approach, I analyze samples from various bat species in central Veracruz, employing sequencing of the V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene to identify the bacteria present and link them to these variables. Through this work, I aim to generate data that help elucidate the complexity of these interactions, providing evidence to support the conservation and management of these mammals in transformed environments.
Master's Advisor
Jorge Luis Castillo García
My interest focuses on understanding how populations in vulnerable tropical areas perceive, explain, and cope with localized cutaneous leishmaniasis. I examine interactions among environmental, social, and cultural factors through a socio-ecological and disease ecology lens, integrating community knowledge and practices with environmental conditions to gain a comprehensive understanding of the disease.
Master's Advisor
Sara López Domínguez
I am interested in bioremediation, agroecology, and applied biotechnology. My project aims to determine the antimicrobial potential of two different extracts from two plant species against Salmonella strains on eggshells.
Master's Advisor
Diana Guadalupe Juárez González
I am interested in biomedical biotechnology, molecular biology, and parasitology. My project focuses on isolating and identifying trypanosomatids from bats in central Veracruz using hemoculture and molecular biology techniques, with the aim of obtaining isolates that support further study and characterization of medically important organisms.
Master's Advisor
Paola García Gómez
Background in veterinary medicine, with an interest in microbiology, infectious diseases, and public health.
Undergraduate
Advisor
Daniela Hermosilla-Díaz
Bachelor of Science (Biology) from the Biology School, Universidad Veracruzana. Her thesis focuses on detecting Rickettsia and Borrelia in a community of wild 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.
On the other hand, as part of her support in the laboratory as a Social Service, she is evaluating the dispersal routes of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto worldwide, as part of an epidemiological surveillance program.
Advisor
Juan Daniel Rodríguez Martínez
Bachelor of Science (Biology) from the Biology School, Universidad Veracruzana. He is currently evaluating the diversity of Mycobacterium sp. in small mammals from Mexico. His main interest is evaluating the molecular characterization of these potential pathogens and the relationship between host diversity and the genetic diversity of Mycobacterium sp.
In addition, as part of his support in the laboratory as a Social Service, he is carrying out the experimental phase of the project "Host selection in Aedes aegypti and the potential role of wild mammals" in collaboration with the "Arthropod Ecology" laboratory of INBIOTECA.
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.
Advisor
Ian Ayala-Montoya
Bachelor of Science (Biology) from the Biology School, Universidad Veracruzana. He is currently evaluating the diversity of Toxoplasma sp. and its effect on the hematological parameters of wild rodents and bats in an urban park in Xalapa, Veracruz.
Advisor
Kalem Cruz Luna
Bachelor of Design and Arts from UV.
He is interested in the biological sciences, design, and illustration. Through my community service, I will support the development of various projects that transform information into visual products for the general public, among other things.
Advisor
Ricardo Medina-Juárez
Bachelor of Science (Biology) from the Biology School, Universidad Veracruzana. He is currently evaluating the species and genetic diversity of Rickettsia sp. in a community of rodents and bats in an urban park in Xalapa, Veracruz.