[All-postdocs] Biology Seminar this week: Dr. Alejandra Prieto-Davo, Unidad Académica de Ciencias y Tecnología de la UNAM en Yucatán

[Margot McKlveen]

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**Biology Department Virtual Seminar**

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Thursday, July 29 at Noon

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Dr. Alejandra Prieto-Davo

Profesor Investigador Titular, Facultad de Química, Sisal,

Unidad Académica de Ciencias y Tecnología de la UNAM en Yucatán


Exploring microbial communities from deep caves of the underground river 
in Yucatan for natural product discovery

The karstic geological origin of the Yucatan peninsula creates extremely 
characteristic environments that have not been widely explored. The 
difficulty to access flooded caves that hold the largest underground 
river in the world has left these environments to evolve with little 
human influence. As part of the microbial ecology and natural products 
discovery lab from UNAM, Sisal, we have undertaken the task of exploring 
the microbial communities from sediments in these caves and their 
biotechnological potential. An interdisciplinary approach including 
traditional microbiology, natural product chemistry, microbial ecology 
and metagenomics has allowed us to begin to understand the diversity of 
the microbial populations present in these caves, their prospective 
roles and involvement in biogeochemical cycles, and their potential as 
natural products sources. We believe that microbial populations are 
linked to the unique environmental characteristics created inside each 
cenote and that these populations change as caves meander into the 
system. Caves deeper into the system and influenced by seawater 
intrusions show the greatest potential for natural product discovery.



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