Jaime García-Mena is Director of Research and Principal Investigator in the Laboratory of Environmental Genomics, Departamento de Genética y Biología Molecular at Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (Cinvestav). He received his B.Sc. with a major in Microbiology in 1986 from the “Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas del IPN”, and in 1992 he obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the “Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN”. In 1993 he made a research stay at the “Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique” in Paris, France, and from 1994 to 1997 he received postdoctoral training at the “Department of Microbiology, University of Connecticut Health Center”, USA.