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.
PhD Co-Advisor
Blanca Erika Medina Salazar
Biologist from the Universidad Veracruzana. My interest lies in understanding how dietary guilds, altitude, and vegetation structure in central Veracruz affect the microbiome within a fruit bat assemblage.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.