Education

• B.S. Agricultural Engineering. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur. 1988.
• M.S. Plant Biotechnology. Instituto Tecnológico de Mérida – Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán. 1993.
• Ph.D. Science and Plant Biotechnology. Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán. 1999.
• Post-Doctorate. Molecular Virology. University of California, Berkeley. 1999-2001.

CURRENT RESEARCH

• Plant-Environment Interaction

ONGOING PROJECTS

• Generation of scientific-technological strategies with a multidisciplinary and inter-institutional approach to face the threat posed by ambrosial complexes in the agricultural and forestry sectors of Mexico. (FORDECYT)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• G. Rosiles-Gonzalez, G. Avila-Torres, O.A. Moreno-Valenzuela, C. Chaidez-Quiroz, C.I. Hernandez-Flores, G. Acosta-Gonzalez, J.K. Brown, W.Q. Betancourt, C.P. Gerba and C. Hernandez-Zepeda. NOROVIRUS AND HUMAN ADENOVIRUS OCCURRENCE AND DIVERSITY IN RECREATIONAL WATER IN A KARST AQUIFER IN THE YUCATAN PENINSULA, MEXICO. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 127: 1255-1269, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1111/jam.14385.
• Sandra Iliana Torres-Herrera, Angélica Romero-Osorio, Oscar Moreno-Valenzuela, Guillermo Pastor-Palacios, Yair Cardenas-Conejo, Jorge H. Ramírez-Prado, Lina Riego-Ruiz, Yereni Minero-García, Salvador Ambriz-Granados and Gerardo R. Argüello-Astorga. A LINEAGE OF BEGOMOVIRUSES ENCODE REP AND AC4 PROTEINS OF ENIGMATIC ANCESTRY: HINTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF GEMINIVIRUSES IN THE NEW WORLD. Viruses, 11: 644, (2019). https://doi.org/10.3390/v11070644.
• Isabel García-Cámara, Raul Tapia-Tussell, Anuar Magaña-Álvarez Oscar Alberto Moreno-Valenzuela, Alberto Cortes-Velazquez, Rodolfo Martín-Mex, and Daisy Pérez-Brito. EMPOASCA PAPAYAE (HEMIPTERA: CICADELLIDAE)-MEDIATED TRANSMISSION OF PAPAYA MELEIRA VIRUS-MEXICAN VARIANT IN MEXICO. . Plant Disease, 103: 2015-2023, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-06-18-1101-RE.
• Isabel García-Cámara, Daisy Pérez-Brito, Oscar Alberto Moreno-Valenzuela, Anuar Magaña-Álvarez, Patricia M. B. Fernandes, and Raul Tapia-Tussell. MOLECULAR AND EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF WATERMELON (CITRULLUS LANATUS) AS HOST OF THE MEXICAN VARIANT
OF PAPAYA MELEIRA VIRUS. European Journal of Plant Patthology, 151: 117-123, (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-017-1357-8.
• Blancka Yesenia Samaniego-Gámez, RenéGarruña, José M. Tun-Suárez, Oscar A. Moreno-Valenzuela, Arturo Reyes-Ramírez, Raúl Enrique Valle-Gough, Carlos Enrique Ail-Catzin and Lydia Toscano-Palomar. Healthy Photosynthetic Mechanism Suggests ISR Elicited by Bacillus spp. in Capsicum chinense Plants Infected with PepGMV. Pathogens, 10: 455, (2021). https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10040455.

PATENTS OR TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

• Luisa Alhucema López-Ochoa; Oscar Alberto Moreno-Valenzuela; Emily Zamudio-Moreno. Secuencia Parcial y Método de Diagnóstico por RT-PCR del Virus de la Meleira de la Papaya. 350792. México. (2017).

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 2006. President, American Phytopathological Society - Caribbean Division. American Phytopathological Society.
• 2009. American Phytopathological Society Foundation International Travel Award. American Phytopathological Society.