Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Luis Enrique Chavarín GómezKyke obtained his undergraduate degree in Biology in our lab, with the financial support of a SECIHTI scholarship. Subsequently, in september 2016 he was accepted in the MSc program (BIMARENA-UdG) and got his degree in the summer 2018. After this, he Immediately applied for a position in the Doctoral program BEMARENA-UdG and got a place. He finished his degree in 2023. In 2024, he prepared his application to compete for a postdoctoral fellowship from SECIHTI. He was successfully awarded the fellowship and began his postdoctoral position in our group in January 2025. So far, he has three publications in JCR-indexed journals (Pest Management Science [IF=4.1 & Q1]; Insects [IF=3.0 & Q1] and Entomologia Generalis [IF=5.625 & Q1]).
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Graduate Students
Pedro Torres EncisoPhD Candidate
Pit is interested in studying insect predators. He joined our group as a volunteer student. In July 2022, he obtained his undergraduate degree studying the behavior of G. punctipes' males. The results of his undergraduate thesis were included in a research article published in the international scientific journal CABI-Agriculture and Bioscience [IF=2.4 & Q1]. In august 2022 he was accepted at the BEMARENA-UdG doctoral program. He will study the potential of native predators as biological control agents. Based on his contributions to our research group, he is also a co-author of two international publications: one in PLoS ONE [IF=3.7 & Q2] and the other in Pest Management Science [IF=4.1 & Q1].
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Betsabé Montserrat Hernández GonzálezMSc. CandidateSupervisor: Dra. Paola Andrea Palmeros-Suárez
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Gabriel Reinoso FranchinoExternal-Lab PhD Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Pablo Schliserman (CITCA, Argentina) Adviser: Dr. Ricardo Ramirez-Romero Gabriel is studying the interactions between herbivores of Prosopis and their parasitoids under a conservative biological control perspective.
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Cintia Pérez SerranoPhD Candidate
As a biologist, Cintia graduated from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Puebla, Mexico. She began her PhD in our research group in the fall of 2024 in the BEMARENA-UdG program. Her PhD aims to test some assumptions and paradigms regarding the predatory behavior of an omnivorous hemipteran at different trophic levels.
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Undergraduate Students
María Fernanda Ledezma GutiérrezFer is an undergraduate Agronomy student at our university (UDG) and recently began her thesis research in our group, focusing on the predatory capacity of mirid bugs on whiteflies.
Angel Rodrigo Ramírez MartínezRodri is an undergraduate Agronomy student who has joined our group to conduct his thesis research. His study aims to determine whether synergistic or antagonistic interactions occur among native predator species.
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Kevin Alejandro Rodríguez ReynagaKevin is an agronomy student who started volunteering in our laboratory. He is now conducting his undergraduate thesis observations, studying the abilities of native predators.
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Former students
Michel Andrea Saavedra LastraMichel obtained her undergraduate degree in Biology at the University of Sonora (UniSon, Mexico). She started participating with our group in February 2021. In September 2021, she was awarded an MSc scholarship from CONACyT to perform her master's degree in the BIMARENA program with our research group. Andrea completed her master’s degree in 2023, and the article with the results of her thesis is being prepared.
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Hilda Esperanza Casillas OchoaHilda was a volunteer undergraduate student that participated with our group on the FAW project.
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