Education

• B.S. Instituto Superior de Ciencias Agropecuarias de La Habana. Cuba. 1980.
• Ph.D. Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Agrícolas. Cuba. 1993.

Current research

• Morphogenesis and Gene Regulation
• Plant Genetics

ONGOING PROJECTS

• Biochemical and molecular studies on the somatic embryogenesis of Capsicum chinense. Factors involved in the recalcitrance of the genus Capsicum. (CB-CONACYT)
• Obtaining more tolerant and more productive varieties of habanero chili from the genetic diversity of the species in Yucatan. (FOMIX)
• Capacity building in development of sustainable hot pepper production in Suriname and Trinidad & Tobago. (SRE-AMEXCID)
• Study of Biochemical, Morphological and Molecular Factors Related to the Development of Somatic Embryos of Capsicum spp. and its Conversion into Plants In Vitro. (CB-CONACYT)
• Establishment of a Technology That Allows the Efficient Production and Establishment in the Field of Pineapple Propagules (Anana comosus Berk.) of High Quality, Integrating Biotechnological Methods with Traditional Crop Management Methods Used in Production Areas. (PN-CONACYTSRE)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Liliana S. Muñoz-Ramírez 1,† , Laura P. Peña-Yam 1,†, Martha A. Álvarez-Gil 2, Lourdes G. Iglesias-Andreu 3, Susana A. Avilés-Viñas 1, Adriana Canto-Flick 1, Adolfo Guzmán-Antonio 1 and Nancy Santana-Buzzy 1,*. Selection of Habanero Pepper F1 Hybrids (Capsicum chinense Jacq.) at the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico with a High Potential for Different Markets. Agriculture, 10: 18, (0000). https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture10100478
• Jacobo Pérez-Pastranaa, Pilar S. Testillanoc, Ivett Baranyc, Adriana Canto-Flicka, Dulce Álvarez-Lópezb, Gema Pijeira-Fernándeza, Susana A. Avilés-Vinasa, Laura Pena-Yama, Liliana Mu˜noz-Ramíreza, Sara Nahuat-Dzibd, Ignacio Islas-Floresa,*, Nancy Santana-Buzzya,* . Endogenous auxin accumulation/localization during zygotic and somatic embryogenesis of Capsicum chinense Jacq. Journal of Plant PhJournal of Genetics physiology , 258: 15, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2020.153333.
• CARLOS F. REGLA-MÁRQUEZ, SUSANA A. AVILÉS-VIÑAS, ADRIANA CANTO-FLICK, LILIANA S. MUÑOZ-RAMÍREZ, LAURA P. PEÑA-YAM, RAÚL E. VALLE-GOUGH, PEDRO M. OSORIO-MONTALVO, JACOBO PÉREZ-PASTRANA and NANCY SANTANA-BUZZY∗. Genes involved in the deformations of the shoot apical meristem in somatic embryos of Capsicum chinense Jacq. Journal of Genetics, 98: 8, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-019-1117-y.
• Carlos Fernando Regla-Márquez1 • Adriana Canto-Flick1 • Susana Alejandra Avilés-Viñas1 • Raúl Enrique Valle-Gough1 • Jacobo Pérez-Pastrana1 • Francisco Javier García-Villalobos1 • Nancy Santana-Buzzy1. Cadaverine: a common polyamine in zygotic embryos and somatic embryos of the species Capsicum chinense Jacq. Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult: 12, (2016). https://www.doi.org/10.1007/s11240-015-0889-x.
• Laura P. Peña-Yam, Liliana S. Muñoz-Ramírez, Susana A. Avilés-Vinas, Adriana Canto-Flick, Jacobo Pérez-Pastrana, Adolfo Guzmán-Antonio, and Nancy Santana-Buzzy1. Analysis of Genetic Parameters of Habanero Pepper (Capsicum chinense Jacq.) in the Yucatan, México. HORTSCIENCE, 54: 5, (2019). https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI13710-18

PATENTS OR TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

• Nancy Santana-Buzzy, Adriana Canto-Flick, Eduardo Balam-Uc. Mayan Kiin. 0823. México. (2012).
• Nancy Santana-Buzzy, Adriana Canto-Flick, Eduardo Balam-Uc. Mayan Ek. 0822. México. (2012).
• Nancy Santana-Buzzy, Adriana Canto-Flick, Eduardo Balam-Uc. Mayan Boox Iik. 1368. México. (2015).
• Nancy Santana-Buzzy, Adriana Canto-Flick, Susana Avilés-Viñas. Kisin. 2169. México. (2019).

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 2019. Caso de Éxito. CONACYT.