School of Humanities and Sciences
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Julieta Alvarez-Manjarrez
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
BioSince my bachelor my main interest was the mycology. I did my bachelor thesis with morphology of Coccoloba uvifera's ectomycorrhizas, then my master thesis was about diversity of ectomycorrhizae in the Mexican tropical dry forest, and my PhD thesis was about the effect of the hurricane in soil fungal communities and the mycorrhizal network. I took a postdoc position in the Institute of Geology, where I studied the effect of waste water on agricultural microbial communities. I did two research stays in the University of Florida, and University of Tartu, Estonia.
I taught courses in the Faculty of Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México to undergradute students and one course to gradute students, I had advised four bachelor thesis from diverse topics related with fungi. I was treasurer of the Mycological Society of Mexico (2015-2018).
One of my passions is to paint watercolor and I illustrated a children's book for a Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NAtions (FAO) contest in 2020. -
Zhainib A. Amir
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2020
BioI received my B.S. in Microbiology, and M.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology from San Francisco State University. Currently, I am a Biology Ph.D. student with an emphasis in Cell, Molecular and Organismal Biology at Stanford University. I am interested in a range of topics, from cell biology to cancer immunology, however, my research interests lie primarily in understanding the cellular mechanisms at play in genetic and autoimmune diseases.
