Dr. María Esther Macías-Rodríguez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacobiology at the University of Guadalajara. She is a Doctor of Sciences in the Use, Management, and Preservation of Natural Resources with a focus on Biotechnology. Her main research interests include the use of probiotics in animal production, use of beneficial microorganisms for the biocontrol of pathogens in plant and aquaculture foods, molecular detection of pathogens in food, and functional genomics of organisms of aquaculture importance.