Hi, I am Andrea Elizabeth Vintimilla Rojas. I work as a teaching technician in charge of the Microbiology and Dairy Laboratory. I graduated from veterinary medicine Zootechnics from the University of Cuenca, Ecuador, in 2016. I completed a Master's degree in Animal Production and Health at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Complutense University of Madrid in 2017. Currently, I work at the University of Cuenca in areas such as Microbiology, Lactology, Epidemiology, Public Health, and Infectious Diseases. In the research area, I have projects mainly focused on animal nutrition, microbiology, and molecular biology. At the University of Cuenca I am a member of the research group on "Animal Health and Public Health" where we have published some scientific works.