ARECHIGA CEBALLOS, NIDIA GUADALUPE

I hold a degree in Biology from the School of Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. I completed my Master's degree and Ph.D. in Biochemical Sciences at the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional. I have served as a guest researcher at various esteemed institutions, including Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas; the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France; and the Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology at the Poxvirus and Rabies Branch of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Unit for Viral Isolation and Detection of the National Center for Microbiology at the Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Madrid, Spain.

In 2012, I was honored with Mexico's national prize for Scientific Journalism and Outreach. I am a member of the Mexican Network of Virology and the Latin American Society for Vector Ecology. My research focuses on viral diseases in wildlife, particularly in bats and procyonids. I am currently affiliated with the Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos (InDRE) from the Ministry of Health in Mexico and I am a co-founder of Kanan por la Vida Silvestre, a non-profit foundation.