Miguel Betancourt Lozano

AFFILIATION:

Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C.

TEL:* +52 (669) 989 8700 ext 208

EMAIL:* mbl@ciad.mx

WEB: https://www.ciad.mx/coordinaciones/mazatlan/acuicultura-y-manejo-ambiental/personal/dr-miguel-betancourt-lozano

GROUP NAME / RESEARCH INTEREST IN FEW WORDS:

Ecotoxicology Lab / Establish a zebrafish species as our ecotoxicological model

SHORT SUMMARY OF RESEARCH INTEREST (MAX. 200 WORDS):

We introduce novel approaches to understand toxicological mechanisms of aquatic contaminants due we recently acquired a zebrafish husbandry system to establish a zebrafish species as our ecotoxicological model. Also our colleagues are developing projects with metagenomic approach of gut microbiota in the zebrafish and CRISPER/Cas9 edition to understand myostatin role.

LIST OF UP TO FIVE RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS:

1- Sánchez Garayzar AB, Bahamonde PA, Martyniuk CJ, Betancourt-Lozano M, Munkittrick KR. 2016. Hepatic gene expression profiling in zebrafish (Danio rerio) exposed to the fungicide chlorothalonil. Comp Biochem Physiol Part D Genomics Proteomics. 19:102-111. doi: 10.1016/j.cbd.2016.04.004.

2- Lizárraga-Lizárraga D, Martínez-Torres A, Llera-Herrera R, Espino-Saldaña AE, García-Gasca A. 2017. Myostatin Modulates the Heart Rate in Zebrafish Embryos. JSM Biotechnol Bioeng 4(1): 1077.

3- Navarro EJ, Hernández-González C, García-Gasca A, Llera-Herrera R, Goméz-Gil B. Overfeeding a high-fat diet promotes sex-specific alterations on the gut microbiota of the zebrafish (Danio rerio). Zebrafish ACCEPTED

GROUP MEMBERS (NAME, POSITION, EMAIL):*

1- Alejandra García-Gasca, Researcher CIAD, alegar@ciad.mx

2- Raúl A. Llera-Herrera, Researcher ICMyL-UNAM, raul.llera@ola.icmyl.unam.mx

3- Beatriz Yáñez-Rivera, Researcher CONACYT-CIAD, beyariv@ciad.mx

4- Anaguiven Aválos Soriano, Researcher CONACYT-CIAD, anaguiven.avalos@ciad.mx

5- Rubén Darío Díaz, Posdoctoral fellow CIAD, rubendario025@gmail.com

6- Luis Terrazas Salgado, graduate student Ph CIAD, luis.terrazas.dc18@estudiantes.ciad.mx

7- Beatriz Ibarra Mendoza, graduate student Ph CIAD, beatrizibrm@gmail.com

8- Eunice Abigail Barraza Ortega, graduate student MSc CIAD, eunice.barraza.mc18@estudiantes.ciad.mx

9- Ana Graciela Carvajal Peraza, undergraduate student, anitagrace913@gmail.com

FISH FACILITIES (TYPE OF FISH SYSTEM/TANKS, CAPACITY, ETC.)*

Complete system with mechanical and biological filtration with UV sterilizer about 300 L capacity, in controlled temperature room.

FISH LINES KEPT IN STOCK:*

Wild type from local aquarium.

OTHER EQUIPMENT RELATED TO ZEBRAFISH RESEARCH*

Microscopes, inverted microscope, incubator, cell culture and molecular biology facilities.

LAB EXPERTISE AND TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES (RELATED TO ZEBRAFISH RESEARCH)*

Ecotoxicology, Molecular Biology, Cell culture, Metagenomic and transcriptomic approach.