Dr. Edith Ponce Alquicira is a professor of the Department of Biotechnology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry of Macromolecules. Her research interests include the isolation and characterization of peptides with antimicrobial activity and the molecular and genomic characterization of lactic acid bacteria, food biopreservation strategies and the study functional properties of muscle substrates.