Dra. Ana Karenth López-Meneses is a postdoctoral researcher at the Departamento de Investigación y Posgrado en Alimentos and an adjunct professor at the Departamento de Ciencias Químico-Biológicas, Universidad de Sonora. She completed her PhD at the Universidad de Sonora and received honorable mentions for her bachelor's, Master's, and PhD degrees. She has recently collaborated on several projects and has supervised both bachelor's and Master's theses. Dra. López-Meneses has published nine papers in various journals, which have received a total of 287 citations. Her teaching areas include microbiology, parasitology, and food science. Her research interests focus on polymers, chitosan, nanoparticles, and microorganisms.