Dr. Arteaga-Garibay is a microbiologist with experience in research and teaching in the medical, veterinary, industrial, food and phytopathology microbiology fields. He is a Specialist in management, identification, characterization and conservation of microorganisms by phenotypic and genotypic methods. An area of interest is the design and implementation of microbiological and molecular techniques. He is a Chemical Bacteriologist and Parasitologist with a Master and Doctorate of Science in Biomedicine and Molecular Biotechnology, with specialty in Microbiology, from the National Polytechnic Institute. He is a Senior Researcher at the National Center for Genetic Resources of INIFAP. Head of the Microbial Genetic Resources laboratory and Curator of the collection of Microorganisms of the CNRG, First international deposit authority in Mexico. He has experience in research related to the phenotypic and genotypic microbial characterization and identification and conservation of Microbial Genetic Resources. He is a Coordinator of the Subcommittee on Microbial Genetic Resources and Invertebrates for Food and Agriculture SADER. He is the author of 47 scientific articles including 20 JCR, 10 book chapters and 2 books, and the Director of 40 theses at the undergraduate level and 7 at the postgraduate level. He has participated in more than 50 national congresses and more than 30 international congresses, and is a member of the national system of Researchers, level I, since 2015.