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Karina Gutierrez-Garcia, Ph.D. - (she/her)
Karina Gutierrez-Garcia, Ph.D. - (she/her)
Assistant professor
Karina earned her B.S. in Chemistry and Biology from the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, her M.S. in Applied Biotechnology from the National Polytechnic Institute, and her Ph.D. in Biotechnology from CINVESTAV/LANGEBIO (Mexico). She completed her postdoctoral training at Carnegie Science (MD, USA) and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona.
Her research focuses on microbiota–host interactions, with an emphasis on bacterial natural products and their biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs).
Jose Luis Steffani Vallejo
Jose Luis Steffani Vallejo
Research Professional I
Research Professional I
José Luis Steffani Vallejo is a Research Professional dedicated to supporting research across the laboratory. His interests include molecular biology, microbiology, host–microbe interactions, and developing efficient workflows that enable successful scientific projects.
José Luis Steffani Vallejo is a Research Professional dedicated to supporting research across the laboratory. His interests include molecular biology, microbiology, host–microbe interactions, and developing efficient workflows that enable successful scientific projects.
Sarhana Shrestha
Sarhana Shrestha
PHIRE Scholar – Undergraduate Student, Bioinformatics Major
Sarhana Shrestha is a junior in the W.A. Franke Honors College at the University of Arizona, majoring in Bioinformatics and minoring in Population Health Data Science. As a PHIRE scholar in the Gutierrez Lab, she works on bacterial genome databases, metadata curation, and bioinformatics workflows for large-scale genomic analyses. She is interested in computational biology and developing reproducible research tools for microbial systems.
Former Lab Members
Anthony Aaron Michael, Assini. Undergraduate researcher in the lab. B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Jan 2026–May 2026)
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