ACADEMIC STAFF

FULL TIME PROFESSOR LAGC RESEARCH LINES
Dra. Katiushka Arévalo Niño
UANL
SNI II
PROMEP
  • Generation of microbial bioremediation processes.
  • Microbial enzymes which degrade persistent organic compounds.
  • The usage of bioadsorbent material in order to remove contaminants.
  • Having subproducts (biopolymers, antioxidants, antimicrobials) with high value to develop functional ingredients.
  • Development of processes and products to use of agricultural waste.
  • Development and evaluation of bioinsecticides formulated of Bacillus thuringiensis and other entomopathogenic microorganisms.
  •  Analysis of compounds in plants which influence in growth of pathogenic microorganisms.
Dra. María del Socorro
Flores González
IPN
PROMEP
  • Development of diagnostic systems to cure infectious ills.
  • Having microbiologic products very important to human or animal health.
  • Isolation and biochemical characterization of proteins.
Dr. Luis J. Galán Wong
UANL
SNI II
 

  • Development, optimization and scaling of bioprocesses in order to produce bioinsecticides through Bacillus thuringiensis and entomopathogenic fungi.
  • Isolation, identification and characterization of microorganisms in order to develop processes of biologic control of pests, emphasizing in agricultural, forest and public health.
  • Development and evaluation of bioinsecticides of Bacillus thuringiensis and other microorganisms.
  • Obtaining microbiologic products very important to human health.
Dra. Martha Guerrero Olazarán
Universidad de Heidelberg, Alemania
SNI II
PROMEP
 

  • Bioengineering of microorganisms emphasizing in methylotrophic yeast.
  • Genetic molecular characterization and genome function of organisms.
  • Engineering of proteins and enzymology.
  • Bioprocesses in order to produce recombinants proteins.
Dra. Yolanda Gutiérrez Puente
UANL
SNI I
PROMEP
 

  • Identification and production of compounds with antitumor activity.
  • Having microbiologic products really important to human or animal health.
Dr. Hugo A. Luna Olvera
UANL
SNI I
PROMEP
 

  • Development of processes to operational improvement of reactors of wastewater.
  • Generation of microbial bioremediation processes.
  • Techniques to produce renewable fuels.
  • Development of processes and products to use of agricultural waste.
  • Usage of microorganisms (filamentous fungi principally) and their enzymes in industrial processes from renewable resources.
  • Structural and functional genomics of yeasts.
Dra. Lilia H. Morales Ramos
UANL
SNI I
PROMEP
  • Isolation, identification and characterization of microorganisms in order to develop process to biologic control of pest in agricultural forest and public health area emphasizing in Bacillus thuringiensis
  • Development and evaluation of bioinsecticides formulated by Bacillus thuringiensis and other entomopathogenic microorganisms.
  • Development, optimization and scale of bioprocesses in order to produce bioinsecticides from Bacillus thuringiensis and entomopathogenic fungi.
  • Generation of processes of microbian bioremediation.
Dra. Isela Quintero Zapata
UANL
SNI I
PROMEP
 

  • Isolation, identification and characterization of microorganisms in order to develop processes to biologic control of pests in agricultural, forest and public health area, emphasizing in entomopathogenic fungi.
  • Development and evaluation of bioinsecticides formulated by Bacillus thuringiensis and other entomopathogenic microorganisms.
  • Generation of microbial bioremediation processes.
Dr. Benito Pereyra Alférez
UANL
SNI I
PROMEP
 

 

  • Usage of microorganisms (filamentous fungi principally) and their enzymes in industrial processes from renewable resources.
  • Structural and functional genomics and other entomopathogenic Bacillus thuringiensis or industrially important microorganisms.
  • Development of molecular methods for the detection of GMOs and health of agricultural origin.
  • Obtaining microbiologic and potentially important to microbiologic products.
  • Identification and production of microbial compounds which have antitumor activity.
Dr. José M. Viader Salvadó
Universidad Ramón Llull, Barcelona, España
SNI II
PROMEP
 

  • Bioengineering of microorganisms emphasizing in methylotrophic yeast.
  • Characterization of molecular-genetics and functional-genomics organisms.
  • Engineering of proteins and enzymology.
  • Bioprocesses in order to produce recombinant proteins.
Dr. Hamlet Avilés Arnaut
CINVESTAV IPN
SNI C
 

  • Isolation, identification and characterization of microorganism in order to develop processes to biologic control of pests in agricultural, forest and public health area.
  • Identification and production of microbial compounds with antitumor activity.
  • Genetic transformation of plants.
  • Interactions, symbiosis and plant defense.
Dra. Susana de la Torre Zavala
CINVESTAV IPN
SNI C
 

  • Obtaining microbiological products important to human or animal health.
  • Biotechnology and microbial genomics.
Dra. Myriam Elías Santos
UANL
SNI C
PROMEP
 

  • Isolation, identification and characterization of microorganisms in order to develop processes in biologic control of pests in agricultural, forest and public health area.
  • Development of processes and products in order to use of agricultural waste.
  • Development and evaluation of formulated bioinsecticides of Bacillus thuringiensis and entomopathogenic fungi.
  • Development, optimization and scale of bioprocesses in order to produce bioinsecticides from Bacillus thuringiensis and from entomopathogenic fungi.
  • Development of processes in order to improve operational reactors of waste water treatment, oil soluble systems and cooling towers.
  • Technologies in order to produce renewable fuels.
PART-TIME TEACHERS LAGC RESEARCH LINES
Dra. Verónica Almaguer Cantú
UANL
SIN C
  • Isolation, identification and characterization of microorganisms in order to develop processes in biologic control of pests in agricultural, forest and public health area.
  • Development, optimization and scaling of bioprocesses in order to produce bioinsecticides from Bacillus thuringiensis and entomopathogenic fungi.
  • Generation of microbial bioremediation processes.
Dra. Elizabeth Alemán Huerta
CINVESTAV IPN
SNI C

  • Isolation, identification and characterization of microorganism in order to develop processes to biologic control of pests in agricultural, forest and public health area.
  • Identification and production of microbial compounds with antitumor activity.
  • Genetic transformation of plants.
  • Interactions, symbiosis and plant defense.
Dra. Lucía Elizabeth Cruz Suárez
Universite de Bretagne Occidental, Brest.
SNI II
PROMEP
 

  • •Chemical characterization and nutritional evaluation of additives, biotechnological products and other nutritional ingredients.
  • Development and application of biotechnological products (enzymes and additives) in shrimp nutrition.
Dr. Sergio A. Galindo Rodríguez
Universidad de Lyon I, Francia
PROMEP
 

 

  • Design, development, characterization and biologic evaluation in vitro and in vivo of formulations of polymeric nanoparticles with agents which have a specific biologic activity, including
  • Drugs and plant extracts with tuberculosis and antifungal activity (i.e. dermatophytes).
  • Essential oil and plant extracts used as repellents or insecticides
  • Antioxidants of natural origin for oral and dermal application
  • Antiseptics for dental application.
Dra. Ma. Guadalupe Maldonado Blanco
UANL
PROMEP
 

  • Isolation, identification and characterization of microorganisms in order to develop processes in biologic control of pests in agricultural, forest and public health area.
  • Development of processes and products for the use of agricultural waste.
  • Development and evaluation of bioinsecticides formulated by Bacillus thuringiensis and other entomopathogenic microorganisms.
  • Development, optimization and scale of bioprocesses in order to produce bioinsecticides from Bacillus thuringiensis and from entomopathogenic fungi.
Dra. María Julia Verde Star
ITESM
SNI II
PROMEP
 

  • Isolation and identification of natural products with biologic activity.

Plant tissue culture and production biodirected of secondary metabolites

Dra. Azucena del Carmen González
Dra. Aida Rodríguez García
  • Biomateriales aplicables en Odontología y Medicina.
  • Nanotecnología y Nanomedicina.
  • Ingeniería tisular.
  • Regeneración guiada de tejidos.
  • Identificación de nuevos compuestos de origen microbiano y vegetal con actividad antimicrobiana y anti-cáncer.