Education

• B.Sc. Chemistry. Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. 1990.
• M.S. Plant Biotechnology. Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán - Instituto Tecnológico de Mérida. 1993.
• Ph.D. Plant Biotechnology. Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán. 2000.
• Post-doctorate. Institute de Recherche pour le Development (IRD), Montpellier, France. 2001.

Current research

• Agrobiotechnology
• Microoroganism Biotechnology

ONGOING PROJECTS

• Insect-born procaryotes associated with tropical and subtropical perennial diseases. (European Community)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Pedro Osorio-Montalvo, Clelia De-la-Peña, Carlos Oropeza, Geovanny Nic-Can, Iván Córdova-Lara, Eduardo Castillo-Castro, Luis Sáenz-Carbonell. A peak in global DNA methylation is a key step to initiate the somatic embryogenesis of coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L). Plant Cell Reports, 39(10): 1345-1357, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-020-02568-2.
• Luis A. Lara-Pérez, Iván Oros-Ortega, Iván Córdova-Lara, Héctor Estrada-Medina, Aileen O’Connor-Sánchez, Elsa Góngora-Castillo4, Luis Sáenz-Carbonell. Seasonal shifts in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in Cocos nucifera roots in Yucatan, Mexico. Mycorrhiza, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-020-00944-0.
• Karla Gisel Carreón-Anguiano, Luis Sáenz-Carbonell, Ignacio Islas-Flores, Julio Vega-Arreguín and Blondy Canto-Canché. EffHunter: A Tool for Prediction of Effector Protein Candidates in Fungal Proteomic Databases. Biomolecules, on line: (2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10050712.
• I. Córdova, C. Oropeza, N. Harrison, S. Ku-Rodríguez, C. Puch-Hau, M. Narvaez and L. Sáenz. Simultaneous Detection of Coconut Lethal Yellowing Phytoplasmas (Group 16SrIV) by Real-Time PCR Assays Using 16Sr- and GroEL-Based TaqMan Probes. Journal of Plant Pathology, 101: 609-619, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42161-019-00249-y.
• Pedro Osorio-Montalvo, Luis Sáenz-Carbonell and Clelia De-la-Peña. 5-Azacytidine: A Promoter of Epigenetic Changes in the Quest to Improve Plant Somatic Embryogenesis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 19(10): 3182, (2018). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms19103182.

PATENTS OR TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

• Luis Sáenz, Iván Córdova, Carlos Oropeza. Method for detection of LY-phytoplasma by real-time PCR. Patent title No. 339891. Mexico. (2016).
• Blondy Canto Canche, Roberto Vázquez Euan, Ignacio Islas Flores, Yasmin Sánchez Rodríguez, Inocencio Higuera Ciapara, Luis Sáenz Carbonell. Method for detection of Mycosphaerella fijiensis fungus by real-time PCR. 015128. Mexico. (2019).