Pacheco-Moscoa, Adriana

Dr. Adriana Pacheco obtained her PhD in Environmental Engineering Sciences at the University of Florida (FL, USA), where she worked on bioremediation of chlorinated compounds by methanotrophic bacteria. She did a one-year postdoctoral position (University of Florida) in biosynthesis of essential cofactors from methylotrophic organisms. In January 2008, she joined the Department of Biotechnology at Tecnológico de Monterrey (Monterrey Campus). As a full-time research professor, Dr. Pacheco studies CO2 capture by microalgae as a promising greenhouse gas mitigation strategy. Currently, she studies the genomes, transcriptomes, and metabolomes of microalgae adapted to high CO2 to elucidate adaptation strategies and generation of byproducts of commercial interest. In this way, incorporate a biorefinery scheme that offers various products or services and, at the same time, revalues waste products to achieve profitable and successful mitigation systems. She also investigates other relevant microbial processes for the environment (e.g., biogas production, beneficial plant-microbe interactions). In 2014 she was promoted to associate professor and is a member of the National System of Researchers Level 2 (SNI Level 2).

Research Professor in Environmental Biotechnology (microbial ecology and bioremediation).