Projects

2020

"State of Chihuahua COVID-19 interdisciplinary research group" This newly appointed group focus on the collaboration of researchers from various backgrounds, Mathematics, Physics and Immunology-Epidemiology areas to assess the distribution of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the major cities of the state of Chihuahua.

Dr. José Manuel Nápoles. Coordinator, UACH. JRA-G, collaborator. Participating institutions: UACH and Chihuahua Health Secretary.

"State of Chihuahua Committee of Vectors and Zoonoses" (formerly, State of Chihuahua Committee for the eradication of malaria)"

Multidisciplinary project. JRA-G, UACH-FCQ representative from 2017 to date. Participating institutions: State's Health Secretary, through the Preventive Medicine and Health Promotion, Epidemiology, and Zoonoses and Vector Control Departments.

"Promotion of scientific vocations aimed at indigenous girls, boys and young students from basic and middle education in the Sierra Tarahumara, Chihuahua, to promote and foster the knowledge of biomedical sciences"

Multidisciplinary Project. Activities: Carry out activities to promote biomedical sciences through talks aimed at girls, boys and young students from primary and secondary education. Support in the organization and exhibition of conferences both in Ciudad Juárez as well in municipalities of the Sierra Tarahumara. Various outreach activities. Publish results of the project both in Spanish and in native indigenous language. Cancelled due to COVID-19.

Dr. Javier Alfonso Garza Hernández. Coordinator, UACJ. JRA-G, collaborator. Participating institutions: UACJ, UACH, UADY, State's Commission for Indigenous Communities (COEPI, in Spanish), Fund of Economic Culture (FCE, in Spanish), and others.

"Multidisciplinary approach for the generation of indicators of the state of conservation of arid-tropical mangroves and their resilience improvement through engineering of plant-microbiome interaction"

Multidisciplinary project. CA-131. Activities: Sediment collection and evaluation of anthropogenic activities in mangroves from Baja California Sur, Mexico.

Dra. Guadalupe Virginia Nevárez-Moorillón. Coordinator, UACH. JRA-G, collaborator. Participating institutions: CIBNOR, UACH, UABCS, CICIMAR.

"Evaluation of cytokine profiles in patients diagnosed with tick-borne diseases" The project focuses on the evaluation of RMSF, other rickettsiosis, and Lyme disease cytokine profiling in clinical samples from patients living in the state of Chihuahua.

MSc student: Carolina Maynez Prieto. co-PIs: Dr. Jaime R. Adame-Gallegos and Dr. G. Pavel Espino-Solís (LabNalCit, UACH-FM).

"Biodiversity of arthropods of clinical and veterinary interest in vector-borne diseases in two physiographic provinces of the state of Chihuahua" The project focuses on the collection, taxonomic identification, and molecular evaluation of arbovirosis in mosquitoes and bacterial pathogens in ticks, collected throughout the state of Chihuahua.

MSc student: Rodolfo González Peña. co-PIs: Dr. Jaime R. Adame-Gallegos and Dr. Javier Alfonso Garza Hernández (UACJ-ICB).

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