Dr. Jorge Humberto Ramirez-Prado is a Full Professor at the Biotechnology Unit of the Yucatan Scientific Research Center (Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, A. C.). He completed his PhD studies in Biotechnology at CINVESTAV, and has been accepted as a fellow of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He has published over 40 papers in various journals, and has been thesis advisor for ten grad students, both at the Master's and PhD levels. His teaching disciplines include bioinformatics, phylogenetics, and genomics, and his interests include fungal comparative genomics and genome evolution.