I undertook a BSc in Biology at the Institute of Neuroethology, Universidad Veracruzana (2002) with an undergraduate dissertation under Dr. Miguel Angel Camacho Pernas in the laboratory of Developmental Biology, now the Laboratory of Neuroanatomy. Awarded an undergraduate scholarship from the faculty of Biology and National Student Grant Programme (PRONABES) of the Federal Government of Mexico. My duties included the management of neonatal and adult Wistar rats, various surgical techniques, behavioural recording, nociception techniques, cytological techniques, brain and spinal cord sections in Vibratome and Cryostat (Lab Neurosciences). The Vibratome is a versatile method for cutting fresh or fixed, animal or plant tissues (Paraffin section preparation) and Cryostat is used in medicine to cut histological slides or brain immunohistochemistry, and the temperature can be varied, depending on the tissue being cut. I received honoraries during my two years in this lab.

I completed a Master’s thesis in the same lab with Dr. Apolo A. Carrasco Garcia, Veterinarian Researcher in collaboration with Dr. Pernas. I researched the neurotoxic and developmental effect of Capsaicin on peripheral nervous system in neonatal and adult rats. Capsaicin, the active ingredient in chilli peppers, is a selective neurotoxin that destroys small sensory neurons with unmyelinated and myelinated axons. This ethnobotanical was used as an analgesic by the Aztec culture of Mexico and is a common ingredient in Mexican food. During this MSc I was supported by a CONACYT scholarship (2004-2005).

My PhD thesis was in the area of ​​Endocrinology in the department of Flora and Fauna Wildlife with M. Francisco Garcia Orduna. I was responsible for MSc student admissions and assessor of Masters theses. Also I was worked in the Wildlife Monitoring Program as indicator of habitat quality (January-July 2010, PEMEX Exploration and Production-Federal Government) and the Wildlife Monitoring Program in Magallanes, Veracruz, Mexico (August-December 2010). Furthermore, in collaboration between Universidad Veracruzana and the Steroid Hormone Laboratory of the Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition, Mexico City, I worked in the standardization, validation and quantification of steroid hormones in primate faeces by radioimmunoassay (RIA).

From 2004-2012, I participated in various academic events as speaker at conferences, seminars and workshops-courses. Also, I taught several classes at Undergraduate and Technical level on Microbiology, Conservation, Animal Anatomy and Physiology. In the Popular Autonomous University of Veracruz about Biology I and II, Biogeography, Chemistry I and II, Ecology and Environment. Currently, I am undertaking postdoctoral studies at the University of East London, United Kingdom on the ethnopharmacological activity of the Mexican medicinal plant known as Purple maguey (Rhoeo discolor L.), which is used in medicinal traditional Mexico as, anti -varix, wound healing, antimicrobial, and recently has been characterized as having anticancer properties.