Lorena María Durán-Riveroll is a researcher from CONACYT at CICESE in Ensenada, Baja, California. She is a Biochemical Engineer and holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Marine Science. Her current work is focused on the marine chemical ecology of microalgae and their metabolites. She maintains a microalgae collection with more than 100 monoclonal cultures, mainly marine dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria.