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I actively work on many other Evolutionary Ecology projects associated to the Funk Lab at CSU, as well as some other "solo" projects that I've been developing. One of the most prominent ongoing projects is a multi-disciplinary NSF-funded project that attempts to understand the disease dynamics of the mountain lion, Puma concolor, studying varied aspects such as landscape genomics, viral/host co-evolution, and disease modeling! Four manuscripts resulting from this collaboration are currently under review, one has been accepted into Molecular Ecology, another has been published in BioRxiv, and more are in the works for submitting in the upcoming months/years! 

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I have also worked on a research project studying gender representation in Ecology, both within and outside Latin America, which was recently published in PLoS ONE! This work was done in collaboration with two former Colorado State University postdocs, and a collaborator from Quito, Ecuador. As a result of this collaboration, we also organized a symposium in Women in Herpetology - as part of the XI Latin American Congress of Herpetology held in Quito, August 2017 - and we plan to continue working on other similar ptojects to this, in order to help contribute to our understanding of the complexities of privilege, diversity, and inclusion in academia.

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I have also become a self-taught bioinformatician in recent years, as a by-product of working on genomics data, and aside from the many informal workshops and training I've held at various institutions (Universidad de Los Andes Bogotá, Colorado State University, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador) I have also co-taught together with Dr. RD Tarvin a formal six-day workshop on intro bioinformatics and RADseq (as part of the South American Congress of Herpetology), and another one-day workshop titled: Genomics of Biodiversity: A Crash Course on How and Why (as part of the International Biogeography Conference).

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