Education

• B.Sc. Biology. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 1994.
• Ph.D. Biotechnology. Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados. 2002.

Current research

• Microoroganism Biotechnology

ONGOING PROJECTS

• Rhizospheric microbial communities associated with ciricote. (CONACYT)
• Study of the composition of genital microbiota in men and its relation to human papillomavirus infection: Generating cutting-edge knowledge with an impact on health. (CONACYT)
• Microbial communities in the honey of native bees.
• Microbial communities in the air.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Álvarez-Rivera OO, Estrada-Medina H, Jiménez-Osornio JJ, O’Connor-Sánchez IA, Navarro-Alberto JA, Ferrer MM, Canto-Canché B, Tzec-Gamboa MDC . Differences in oxalate–carbonate pathway of Brosimum alicastrumin in karst homegarden and forest soils. Soil Biol Biochem , (2021). https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20228.
• Lara-Pérez LA, Oros-Ortega I, Córdova-Lara I, Estrada-Medina H, O’Connor-Sánchez A, Góngora-Castillo E, Sáenz-Carbonel L. Seasonal shifts of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in Cocos nucifera roots in Yucatan. Mexico. Mycorrhiza, 30: 269-283, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-020-00944-0.
• Góngora-Castillo E, López-Ochoa LA, Apolinar-Hernández MM, Caamal-Pech AM, Contreras-de la Rosa PA, Quiroz-Moreno A, Ramírez-Prado JH, O’Connor-Sánchez A. Data mining of metagenomes to find novel enzymes: a non-computationally intensive method. 3 Biotech, 10: 78, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-019-2044-6.
• Marfil-Santana M, O’Connor-Sánchez A, De los Santos-Briones C, López-Aguiar LK, Ramírez-Prado JH, Rojas-Herrera R, Prieto-Davó. A computationally simplistic poly-phasic approach to explore microbial communities from the Yucatán aquifer as potential sources of novel natural products. J Microbiol, 54(11): 1-9, (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-016-6092-x.
• Apolinar–Hernández MM, Peña–Ramírez YJ, Pérez-Rueda E, Canto-Canché BB, De los Santos-Briones C, O´Connor-Sánchez A. Identification and in silico characterization of two novel genes encoding peptidases S8 found by functional screening in a metagenomic library of Yucatán underground water. Gene, 593: 154-161. , (2016). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2016.08.009.