Researchers

Responsible for the Laboratory of Physiology and Molecular Biology, I am a graduate of the Bachelor of Biochemical Engineering of the Instituto Tecnológico de Acapulco, and the Master and Doctor in Sciences of CIAD, AC. I have over 40 publications (Check PUBMED, Google Academic and Web of knowledge as Soñanez-Organis JG), and until march 2025 I have more than 800 citations. I have supervised 15 Bachelor’s, 8 Master’s and 2 Ph.D. Theses. I have been responsible for research projects funded by the Universidad de Sonora (2015, 2018, 2019 and 2020), CONACYT (Basic Scientific Research 2014 and Infrastructure 2013), UCMexus CONACYT (2014 and 2019) and AlianzaMX (2024). Manuscript reviewer for the journals Cardiovascular Diabetology, Fish and sellfish immunology, Frontier Phisiology, Gene, Aquaculture reasearch, Biomolecules, Food Science and Technology, Molecules, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Viruses, Pathogens y Frontiers in Marine Science. In April 2010 I did a 7-month postdoc at CIAD Hermosillo, and from November 2010 to December 2012 a postdoc at the School of Natural Sciences of the University of California Merced, California, USA. I belong to the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores de México 2012 to date. I have received on 4 occasions the Annual Distinguished Researcher Award from the Universidad de Sonora Unidad Regional Sur. I currently participate in research projects with the Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, Universidad de Guadalajara, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CIAD and the University of California (Merced).

RESEARCH AREAS: Regulation of genes and proteins involved in energy metabolism. Research related to the mechanisms of metabolic regulation during infection with white spot syndrome virus and hypoxia in white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei. We also conduct research on elucidating the molecular mechanisms by which transcription factors such as HIF or PPPARG and pyrilipins regulate lipid storage and metabolism in models of physiological (pregnancy) and pathological (type 2 diabetes) cardiac hypertrophy.