ERIA A. REBOLLAR

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

I am a microbial ecologist interested in symbiotic relationships between hosts (animals) and microbial communities. My line of research focuses on analyzing the symbiotic communities of amphibians (microbiomes) from an ecological and evolutionary perspective. I also participate in projects on the diversity and function of aquatic and soil microbiomes.

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M.Sc. Luis Enrique Soto Cortés

PHD STUDENT 2021-PRESENT

I am interested in understanding the influence of host-associated factors, such as host genetic variation, on the diversity and structure of microbial communities that inhabit the skin of mole salamanders.

Francisco Maximiliano González Serrano

PHD STUDENT 2021-PRESENT

I'm looking for metabolic pathways related to antimicrobial activity, particularly antifungal, on Neotropical frog's skin bacterial isolates and Ambystoma microbiomes

Diana F. Jacinto Castillo

PHD STUDENT 2023-PRESENT

My Ph.D. research aims to understand the role of the peptides as an innate immune response of the skin of the Ambystoma mexicanum, or Mexican axolotl, through experimentally identifying these peptides that have antimicrobial activity against the amphibian pathogenic fungus Bd, and bacteria.

Juan Orihuela Buenosaires

UNDERGRADUATE 20XX-PRESENT

My research project consists of analyzing the prevalence and intensity of Bd (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) infection and the genetic diversity of the MHC IIB gene in four populations of Ambystoma mexicanum. To evaluate the correlation between the immunogenetic diversity of the host with the intensity of infection by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.

Francisco Elohim Cárdenas

UNDERGRADUATE August 2022-PRESENT

My project focuses in the isolation and classification of culturable bacteria present in the skin of the caecilian Dermophis mexicanus in three different microhabitats, and to compare the culturable bacterial diversity with databases of the amphibian orders Anura and Caudata.

Alberto H. Orta

MASTERS STUDENT 2021-PRESENT

The objective of my master's project is to know through an experimental study the effect of warming on the microbiota of the skin during the development of the  frog Hyla arenicolor in a context of climate change.

Gabriela Sandoval García

UNDERGRADUATE 2021-PRESENT

The aim of my project is to explore the antifungal capacity of skin symbiotic bacteria isolated from Ambystoma altamirani. In particular I will use in vitro competition assays to evaluate the capacity of 250 bacterial strains to inhibit the fungal pathogen Bd, which is responsible for the emerging disease called chytridiomycosis.

Paulina Cruz Bernal

UNDERGRADUATE

My project aims to evaluate the antifungal capacity of culturable bacteria from the skin of Ambystoma altamirani. I want to correlate the capacity of these bacteria to inhibit the growth of the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis with Bd infection status across a seasonal gradient.

Ariadna Jessamyn Ramírez Albino

UNDERGRADUATE 2023-PRESENT

My project is about the Characterization of the bacterial microbiome of the skin of Crab in the Strait. of Magallanes in collaboration with Dr. Paola Acuña with CEQUA and ANID. The research is from the Magallanes region and Chilean Antarctica, it is about making a correlation of the microbiome with the physiology of Lithodes Santolla with environmental variables. The microbiome is used as a bioindicator of the health of the aquatic ecosystem in a global warming scenario.

Carolina Isabel Huicochea Fernández

UNDERGRADUATE 2023-PRESENTE

My project aims to characterize the bacterial microbiota of the marine surface along the Strait of Magellan and investigate differences in community composition based on geographic location and the season during which the samples were collected. It is a collaborative project with CEQUA.