Dr. Evangelina Esmeralda Quiñones-Aguilar received her Master of Science in Soil Science in 2002 with a specialization in Soil Microbiology. She received her PhD in Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology in 2008. From September 2009 to August 2010, she conducted postdoctoral research at CIATEJ (Guadalajara Jalisco). Since 2011, she has been a Researcher at CIATEJ. Her research interest is in the biological control of plant pathogens.