María del Rocío Reyes Montes has been a professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) since 1997. She received her degree in pharmacobiological chemistry in 1977, her MD (immunology) in 1982, and a doctorate in biomedical sciences in 1993 from the UNAM. Her research with fungi has focused on the molecular epidemiology of pathogenic fungi, obtaining molecular markers for the identification and typification of pathogenic fungi, and the molecular diagnosis of pathogenic fungi, especially with Aspergillus, Coccidioides, and Dermatophytes.