EDUCACIÓN

• Licenciatura: Bióloga, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM
• Doctorado: Doctora en Ciencias con especialidad en Biotecnología de Plantas. CINVESTAV - Irapuato

LÍNEA ACTUAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN

• Análisis de comunidades microbianas mediante tecnología metagenómica.
• Prospección de genes de importancia biotecnológica.

PUBLICACIONES RECIENTES

• Marfil-Santana M, O’Connor-Sánchez A, De los Santos-Briones C, López-Aguiar LK, Ramírez-Prado JH, Rojas-Herrera R, Prieto-Davó (2016) 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. Doi: 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 (2016) 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. Doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2016.08.009.
• Estrada-Medina H, Canto-Canché BB, De los Santos-Briones C, O’Connor-Sánchez A (2016) Yucatán in black and red: Linking edaphic analysis and pyrosequencing-based assessment of bacterial and fungal community structures in the two main kinds of soil of Yucatán State. Microbiol Res 188: 23-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micres.2016.04.007.
• Ledezma-Villanueva A, Adame-Rodríguez JM, O’Connor-Sánchez A, Villarreal-Chiu JF, Aréchiga-Carvajal ET (2015) Biodegradation kinetic rates of diesel-contaminated Sandy soil samples by two different microbial consortia. Ann Microbiol (ISSN 1590-4261) Doi: 10.1007/s13213-015-1096-z.
• O’Connor-Sánchez A, Rivera-Domínguez AJ, De los Santos-Briones C, López-Aguiar L, Peña-Ramírez YJ, Prieto-Davo A (2014) Acidobacteria appear to dominate the microbiome of two sympatric Caribbean Sponges and one Zoanthid. Biol Res 47: 67 (ISSN 0717-6287) Doi: 10.1186/0717-6287-47-67.