Lab members
Francisco Neptalí Morales-Serna
(Principal Investigator)
B.Sc. in Biology (2004), Instituto Tecnológico Agropecuario de Oaxaca No. 23 (ITVO), Mexico. MSc (2006) and Ph.D. (2010), Posgrado en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, UNAM. Postdoctoral fellow (2010-2012), Instituto de Biología, UNAM. Postdoctoral fellow (2013-2014), Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD), A.C. Unidad Mazatlán. Neptalí was a CONACYT Research Fellow (programa Cátedras) at CIAD-Mazatlán from September 2014 to January 15th 2021.
Dra. Citlalic Pimentel Acosta
Postdoc
Biology of parasitic copepods
Juan Manuel Osuna Cabanillas
Ph.D. student (2021-2025)
Ecology of fish ectoparasites . He is part of the postgraduate program of FACIMAR-UAS.
Víctor Hugo Caña-Bozada
Ph.D. student (2020-2024)
Interested in molecular biology of monogeneans (Platyhelminthes). He is part of the Postgraduate Program of CIAD, A.C.
Selena Camacho Zepeda
MSc. student (2021-2023)
Fish parasites as indicators of aquatic pollution. She is part of the postgraduate program of FACIMAR-UAS.
Luis Eduardo Cabanillas Tapia
B.Sc. student (2022)
Prevalence and intensity of parasitic copepods on Caranx caninus.
Saúl García Labrador
B.Sc. student (2022)
Morphometric analysis of parasitic crustaceans
Ireri Zacilha Renteria Caballero
B.Sc. student (2022)
Ecology of fish parasites
Former students
Dania López Moreno
MSc. (2018-2020). Inmunología del robalo Centropomus viridis infectado por el monogéneo Rhabdosynochus viridisi
Lorenia Olivas
B.Sc. (2020-2021). Temporal variation of prevalence and intensity of infection of parasitic copepods on a marine fish species
Martha Chapa López
MSc. (2018-2020). In silico analysis of the secretome of monogeneans. Co-supervised by Dr. Guillermo de Anda Jáuregui