Laboratorio de Ecoinmunología y Fisiología de la Conservación

Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse
Principal Investigator
karina.acevedo.whitehouse@uaq.mx
Tel. +52 558 421 8025
Posdoctoral Research Fellow - Wildlife Epidemiology. Institute of Zoology (UK)
PhD - Immunogenetics. University of Cambridge (UK) 2005
MSc - Disease Ecology. CICESE (Mexico) 2001
BVMS - UNAM (Mexico) 1999.
Member of the National System of researchers of Mexico since 2010 (Level III)



Students
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Ana Itzel Montesinos Laffont
PhD student
Importance of chronic inflammation, nutritional status and diet for the transformation of sea lion cervical epithelium

Yara Juárez Campusano
PhD student
Ontogeny of neonatal enteric immunity of Northern elephant seals in the context of their microbiome

Karen Ahlem Esper Reyes
PhD student
Conservation physiology of howler monkeys
Codirector: Nicolás Lara Ramos


Ana Gómez Noriega
MSc student
Sexual selection, honest signals and immunogenetics of the California sea lion, Zalophus californianus

Fernanda Félix Huergo
MSc student
Blue whale bacterial resistome: a biogeographical approach

Aldo Franco Díaz
MSc student
Genetic characterization of the PrPSc protein in marine mammals

Juan Pablo Quintana G.
Undergraduate
Molecular survey of antibiotic resistance in elasmobranchs from Tamaulipas

Zoe Rodríguez Miranda
Undergraduate
Antibiotic resistance genes in the skin of free-ranging manatees from Chetumal

Mara Barrero Oropeza
Undergraduate
Antibiotic resistance in fecal bacteria of the Caribbean manatee

Ariadna Guzmán Solis
Undergraduate
Alopecia and health status of juvenile Guadalupe fur seals

Mónica Valdez Lugo
Undergraduate
Differential gene expression in the genital epithelium of adult California sea lions

Brandon García Álvarez
Undergraduate
Fluctuating asymmetry and health of California sea lion pups: a biogeographical approach

Andrea Hernández Trejo
Undergraduate
Geographical variation in serum inhibition of bacterial growth in adult California sea lions from the Gulf of California