Originally from Mexico City, I received my Bachelors of Science in biology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2008. I first became interested in microbial ecology in Dr. Valeria Souza and Luis Eguiarte's laboratory. Under the supervision of Dr. Ana E. Escalante I studied the seasonal variation in the diversity of Pseudomonas in an evaporating lagoon in Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico. Puzzled by the evolutionary forces driving the adaptation of these bacteria to stressful environments, I decided to move into the field of experimental evolution.
In 2009, I started my Ph.D. with Dr. Brandon S. Gaut at the University of California Irvine funded by the UC-MEXUS-CONACYT graduate fellowship. I immediately started working in a large-scale experimental evolution project in which 114 replicate populations of Escherichia coli were evolved 2000 generations at 42.2ºC. During this time I closely worked with Olivier Tenaillon, who contributed substantially to the characterization of the diversity of mutation involved in thermal stress adaptation.
This interaction led me to compete for the Chateaubriand Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM); a fellowship grant offered by the Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in the United States. Earning this fellowship allowed me to do 9 months of research in France under the supervision of Olivier in Erick Denamur's group. During this time I learned and developed new techniques in bacterial genetics.
I went back to California at the end of 2012, where I completed my dissertation entitled: "Genetic bases and phenotypic consequences of high-temperature adaptation in Escherichia coli". I successfully hold my defense on December 5, 2014.
I am currently a postdoc at ETH Zürich in Prof. Martin Ackermann's group based at Eawag. During my EMBO Long-Term Fellowship and my ACE Postdoctoral Fellowship I learned new techniques such as time-lapse microscopy and microfluidics.
In 2009, I started my Ph.D. with Dr. Brandon S. Gaut at the University of California Irvine funded by the UC-MEXUS-CONACYT graduate fellowship. I immediately started working in a large-scale experimental evolution project in which 114 replicate populations of Escherichia coli were evolved 2000 generations at 42.2ºC. During this time I closely worked with Olivier Tenaillon, who contributed substantially to the characterization of the diversity of mutation involved in thermal stress adaptation.
This interaction led me to compete for the Chateaubriand Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM); a fellowship grant offered by the Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in the United States. Earning this fellowship allowed me to do 9 months of research in France under the supervision of Olivier in Erick Denamur's group. During this time I learned and developed new techniques in bacterial genetics.
I went back to California at the end of 2012, where I completed my dissertation entitled: "Genetic bases and phenotypic consequences of high-temperature adaptation in Escherichia coli". I successfully hold my defense on December 5, 2014.
I am currently a postdoc at ETH Zürich in Prof. Martin Ackermann's group based at Eawag. During my EMBO Long-Term Fellowship and my ACE Postdoctoral Fellowship I learned new techniques such as time-lapse microscopy and microfluidics.