Biography

I grew up in Ciudad Victoria, a small city located in northeastern Mexico. I moved to do my B.Sc. in biotechnology engineering at the Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Guadalajara in the center west of the country. During that time, I was able to collaborate on different research projects related to environmental biotechnology. I had the opportunity to come to Canada for a research internship during this time and I decided to do my graduate studies here. In 2019 I started my M.Sc. in molecular and cellular biology at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières under the supervision of Isabel Desgagné-Penix. In 2020, I fast-tracked to my Ph.D. to continue the project of the characterization of an enzyme involved in plant-specialized metabolism in Phaeodactylum tricornutum. This project, together with previous findings, contributed to the characterization of the episomal expression in transconjugants of P. tricornutum. In 2025, I joined the Landry lab to learn about other ways to engineer microorganisms.

Research interests

My interests include using bioengineering to learn about biological systems by combining bench work and computational biology. I will optimize base editors in yeast pathogens to contribute to unraveling the mechanisms behind AMR.