SANTIAGO LAB

LAB NEWS

1) Congratulations to Indira for finishing her M.Sc. degree, where she studied the hematology and blood parasites of global populations of the ubiquitous House Sparrow, good job! We wish you all the best in your next chapter. God Bless!

2) Congratulations to Héctor for the recent publication of his first dissertation chapter, developing the first general quantum theory of genomics to improve our understanding of how mutations are generated:

Mejía-Díaz H, Santiago-Alarcon D, Venegas-Andraca SE. 2025. A proposal for the quantum mechanical study of genomic mutations driven by environmental stressors. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 481: 20240439. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2024.0439

3) Congratulations to Oscar for the recent publication of his first dissertation chapter, studying the avian haemosporidian assemblages at large geographical scales:

Hernandes Córdoba OD, Torres-Romero EJ, Villalobos F, Chapa-Vargas L, Santiago-Alarcon D. 2024. Energy input, hábitat heterogeneity and host specificity drive avian haemosporidian diversity at continental scales. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 291: 20232705. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2705

4) Congratulations to Yeraldi for the publication of her first dissertation chapter, where she studied the mosquito vector diversity across seasons and years and how it is affected by temperature and precipitation:

Guillén-Rodríguez YG, Chapa-Vargas L, Ibarra-Juárez LA, Ibáñez-Bernal S, Santiago-Alarcon D. 2024. The influence of humidity and temperature on the vertical richness and abundance of blood-sucking flies (Culicidae and Ceratopogonidae) in a montane cloud forest from Mexico. Journal of Vector Ecology 49: 1-14.