Education

• B.S. Industrial Chemistry. Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. 2004.
• Ph.D. Biological Sciences. Centro de Investigación de Yucatán. 2009.

Current research

• Bioenergy

ONGOING RESEARCH

• Study of freshwater microalgae to produce triacylglycerides.
• Biological production of hydrogen from freshwater microalgae. (SENER-CONACYT)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Ruby Valdez-Ojeda, Maria Guadalupe del Rayo Serrano-Vázquez, Tanit Toledano-Thompson, Juan Carlos Chavarría-Hernández, Luis Felipe Barahona-Pérez. Effect of Media Composition and Culture Time on the Lipid Profile of the Green Microalga Coelastrum sp. and Its Suitability for Biofuel Production. Bioenergy Research, 14241-253:(2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12155-020-10160-5.
• Suárez-Moo P, Lamelas A, Garcia-Bautista I, Barahona-Pérez LF, Sandoval-Flores G, Valdes-Lozano D, Toledano-Thompson T, Polanco-Lugo E, Valdez-Ojeda R. 2020. Characterization of sediment microbial communities at two sites with low hydrocarbon pollution in the southeast Gulf of Mexico. PeerJ 8: e10339, (2020). https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10339.
• Jessica Suastes-Rivas, R. Hernández-Altamirano, Violeta Mena-Cervantes, Ruby Valdez-Ojeda, Tanit Toledano-Thompson, Luis R. Tovar-Gálvez, Silvia López-Adrián, Isaac Chairez. Efficient production of fatty acid methyl esters by a wastewater-isolated microalgae-yeast co-culture. Environmental Science and Pollution Research,: 1-10, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-07286-1.
• Odette Castillo‐Gómez, Víctor M. Ramírez‐Rivera, Blondy B. Canto‐Canché, Ruby A. Valdez‐Ojeda. Experimental design of a simple medium for the bioluminescence of Aliivibrio fischeri and mathematical modelling for growth estimation. Luminescence, 34: 859– 869., (2019). https://doi.org/10.1002/bio.3683.
• Erik Polanco-Lugo, José Isabel Martínez-Castillo, Juan Carlos CuevasBernardino, Tania González-Flores, Ruby Valdez-Ojeda, Neith Pacheco, Teresa Ayora-Talavera. Citrus pectin obtained by ultrasound-assisted extraction: Physicochemical, structural, rheological and functional properties. CyTA - Journal of Food, 17: 463-471, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1080/19476337.2019.1600036.

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 2020. Level I. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. CONACYT.