Degrees:
2019
Doctorate Biological Systems and Organisms
Geomicrobiological research in underground environments with particular interest in aquifers
2009
Undergraduate Biological Systems and Organisms
Microbiota of underground environments
Publications resulting from Research
Espino del Castillo, A., Beraldi-Campesi, H., Beltran, H.I. & Le Borgne, S., 2017, Bacterial diversity associated with mineral substrates and hot springs from caves and tunnels of the Naica Underground System (Chihuahua, Mexico). International Journal of Speleology, 47 (2), http://doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.47.2.2161.
Aliaga-Campuzano, M.P., López-Martínez, R., Dávila-Harris, P., Espinasa-Pereña, R., Espino del Castillo, A. & Bernal, J.P., 2017, Timing of speleogenesis of Las Karmidas Cave (Mexico): first description of pseudokarst developed in ignimbrite. International Journal of Speleology, v.46, no. 3, p.331-343. https://doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.46.3.2097
Espino del Castillo, A., Paredes-León, R. & Morales-Malacara, J.B., 2011, Presence of intradermal chigger mite Hannemania hylae (Ewing, 1925) in the troglophile frog Eleutherodactylus longipes at Los Riscos Cave, Qro. Mexico. International Journal of Acarologand, v.37, no. 5, p.427-440. DOI: 10.1080/01647954.2010.525522
Espino del Castillo, A., Castaño-Meneses, G., Dávila-Montes M., Miranda-Anaya M., Morales-Malacara, J.B. & Paredes-León, R., 2009, Seasonal distribution and circadian activity in the troglophile long-footed robber frog, Eleutherodactylus longipes (Anura: Brachyhalcepidae) at Los Riscos. Mexico: Field and Laboratory studies. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies,v. 71, no. 1, p.24-31.
Participation with poster and Flash Talk: Espino del Castillo, A., Beltran, H.I., Beraldi-Campesi, H., Le Borgne, S. "Experimental evidence of bacterially-induced iron oxyhydroxides and gypsum deposits in Naica Caves". Goldschmidt, Barcelona, Spain (2019).
Oral participation: Espino del Castillo, A., Beltran, H.I., Beraldi-Campesi, H., Le Borgne, S. "Bacterial activity in Naica mineral deposits evidenced through XRD, FTIR and SEM-EDS analysis". Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XLI (CSI XLI) & I Latin American Meeting on LIBS (I LAMLIBS), at CU-UNAM, CDMX (2019).