Eugenia Zarza
@eugeniazarza.bsky.social
Researcher @ECOSUR, Mexico. Interested in studying biodiversity, evolution, bioinformatics; IUCN Iguana Specialist Group
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🦋Documental | El Retorno de las Ánimas, una producción dirigida por Nicolás Díaz-Magaloni, se adentra en la comunidad mazahua de Crescencio Morales en México, donde la mariposa monarca representa la llegada de las ánimas dozz.es/7p8un4
Documental | Retorno de las Ánimas |
Esta producción dirigida por Nicolás Díaz-Magaloni se adentra en la comunidad mazahua de Crescencio Morales en México, donde la mariposa monarca representa la llegada de las ánimas
dozz.es
November 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
🦋Documental | El Retorno de las Ánimas, una producción dirigida por Nicolás Díaz-Magaloni, se adentra en la comunidad mazahua de Crescencio Morales en México, donde la mariposa monarca representa la llegada de las ánimas dozz.es/7p8un4
Day of the Dead altars in the lab, honouring some of the scientists we lost this and past years. 🇲🇽💀🧪👩🏽🔬
November 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Day of the Dead altars in the lab, honouring some of the scientists we lost this and past years. 🇲🇽💀🧪👩🏽🔬
Worried about the people in Jamaica. I'm also worried about the only surviving wild population of the critically endangered Jamaica rock iguanas (Cyclura collei), I hope they find a place to hide. 🦎🌎🧪
October 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Worried about the people in Jamaica. I'm also worried about the only surviving wild population of the critically endangered Jamaica rock iguanas (Cyclura collei), I hope they find a place to hide. 🦎🌎🧪
Estamos organizando la primera Olimpiada Nacional de Zoología en México, dirigida a estudiantes de licenciatura de Biología y carreras afines. Más info: instagram.com/olimpiadas.zoo www.facebook.com/share/p/1KYD... 🧪🦎🐟🦊🦉🦋🪱🐸🐜🐌🪸🦣
October 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Estamos organizando la primera Olimpiada Nacional de Zoología en México, dirigida a estudiantes de licenciatura de Biología y carreras afines. Más info: instagram.com/olimpiadas.zoo www.facebook.com/share/p/1KYD... 🧪🦎🐟🦊🦉🦋🪱🐸🐜🐌🪸🦣
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Fewer than 150 achoque may survive in the wild, and we need a way to monitor their health and other factors to better protect them.
Good news, though: our scientists have carried out the first ever successful microchipping trial on these salamanders!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWzV...
🧪🌎🦇
Good news, though: our scientists have carried out the first ever successful microchipping trial on these salamanders!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWzV...
🧪🌎🦇
Achoque Salamanders: Microchipping One Of The World’s Rarest Amphibians
YouTube video by IFLScience
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October 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Fewer than 150 achoque may survive in the wild, and we need a way to monitor their health and other factors to better protect them.
Good news, though: our scientists have carried out the first ever successful microchipping trial on these salamanders!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWzV...
🧪🌎🦇
Good news, though: our scientists have carried out the first ever successful microchipping trial on these salamanders!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWzV...
🧪🌎🦇
We had a great time yesterday in the main Science outreach event in our institution, “ECOSUR a Puertas abiertas”, 🇲🇽. We received around 1000 people! My students were super enthusiastic sharing info about eDNA! 🧬🧪👩🏽🔬
October 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
We had a great time yesterday in the main Science outreach event in our institution, “ECOSUR a Puertas abiertas”, 🇲🇽. We received around 1000 people! My students were super enthusiastic sharing info about eDNA! 🧬🧪👩🏽🔬
I was happy to contribute to this interesting genomic and biochemical study on the powers of Glutamicibacter spp! This strain, isolated from a pristine cenote in Yucatán, is halotolerant and can potentially be used in bioremediation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦠🧬
Sessile culture as a strategy to enhance the production of emulsifying exopolysaccharides by Glutamicibacter sp. XHA18
Pristine environments harbor diverse microbial communities with unique and underexplored metabolic capabilities, including the production of exopolysa…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I was happy to contribute to this interesting genomic and biochemical study on the powers of Glutamicibacter spp! This strain, isolated from a pristine cenote in Yucatán, is halotolerant and can potentially be used in bioremediation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦠🧬
My favourite reptiles: They live in amazing places e.g. Baja California and the Galapagos islands, they’re seed dispersers, some are fragile other very resilient, culturally important but threatened by habitat loss, trafficking, hunting. Today is Iguana awareness day! Photo:IIF 🌎🦎
September 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
My favourite reptiles: They live in amazing places e.g. Baja California and the Galapagos islands, they’re seed dispersers, some are fragile other very resilient, culturally important but threatened by habitat loss, trafficking, hunting. Today is Iguana awareness day! Photo:IIF 🌎🦎
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What we can learn from a mother lode of Mexican mammoths w/ @rpocisv.bsky.social this week on the @science.org podcast
Listen here 🎧 www.science.org/content/podc...
Listen here 🎧 www.science.org/content/podc...
August 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
What we can learn from a mother lode of Mexican mammoths w/ @rpocisv.bsky.social this week on the @science.org podcast
Listen here 🎧 www.science.org/content/podc...
Listen here 🎧 www.science.org/content/podc...
Sharing a video of Catemaco 🇲🇽 for #WorldLakeDay, surrounded by the volcanic Sierra de Los Tuxtlas and some patches of the original rainforest. It’s one of the sampling sites in our eDNA project.
August 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Sharing a video of Catemaco 🇲🇽 for #WorldLakeDay, surrounded by the volcanic Sierra de Los Tuxtlas and some patches of the original rainforest. It’s one of the sampling sites in our eDNA project.
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Here's a really great global/remote job opportunity at IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas. 🌏 #conservation #biodiversity #widlife #nationalparks
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
IUCN WCPA Executive Officer_Call for Applications.docx
Call For Applications Executive Officer — IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Location: Remote; Global About IUCN WCPA IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) is the world’s premier n...
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August 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Here's a really great global/remote job opportunity at IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas. 🌏 #conservation #biodiversity #widlife #nationalparks
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
three bats outside my office! 🦇
August 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
three bats outside my office! 🦇
We heard howling monkeys for days in Palenque 🇲🇽 and we finally saw one! This national park protects amazing nature and impressive Mayan temples. 🐒
July 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
We heard howling monkeys for days in Palenque 🇲🇽 and we finally saw one! This national park protects amazing nature and impressive Mayan temples. 🐒
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The letters by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had been read before the Linnean Society.
OTD in 1858, D abandoned the “Big Species Book” he had been working on and began a short “abstract” of his theory.
It would go on to be published as On the Origin of Species.
🌱🐋🧪🧠🗃️ #HistSTM #EvoBio
OTD in 1858, D abandoned the “Big Species Book” he had been working on and began a short “abstract” of his theory.
It would go on to be published as On the Origin of Species.
🌱🐋🧪🧠🗃️ #HistSTM #EvoBio
July 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Very happy that after travelling 368 km (2x) to the ‘local’ Environment and Natural Resources office +3 months wait, my student got his collection permits approved! We’ll catch Ctenosaura similis for his master’s project on spiny-tailed iguana’s gut microbiome. 🧬🧪🦎🌎
July 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Very happy that after travelling 368 km (2x) to the ‘local’ Environment and Natural Resources office +3 months wait, my student got his collection permits approved! We’ll catch Ctenosaura similis for his master’s project on spiny-tailed iguana’s gut microbiome. 🧬🧪🦎🌎
Happy #WorldSnakeDay! Here is one of my favorite rattlesnakes, Crotalus catalinensis. I took this pic in Serpentario La Paz last year. However, when I was undergrad I was lucky to volunteer in a project on Santa Catalina Island (Gulf of California) where I saw many of them! 🧪🌎🐍
July 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Happy #WorldSnakeDay! Here is one of my favorite rattlesnakes, Crotalus catalinensis. I took this pic in Serpentario La Paz last year. However, when I was undergrad I was lucky to volunteer in a project on Santa Catalina Island (Gulf of California) where I saw many of them! 🧪🌎🐍
Happy to be part of this paper! We studied changes in bacterial communities in wetlands in Southern Gulf of Mexico. I didn't get to sample the fantastic 'Pantanos de Centla', but I learnt how salinity and human activities impact microbial diversity. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪🧬💧🌎👩💻
Salinity Is a Key Factor Shaping Bacteriobenthos in Floodplain Lakes of a Neotropical Coastal Wetland - Wetlands
Despite the key role of bacteriobenthos in the biogeochemistry of coastal wetlands, the drivers controlling their diversity, distribution, and assembly at the freshwater-seawater transition remain unc...
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July 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Happy to be part of this paper! We studied changes in bacterial communities in wetlands in Southern Gulf of Mexico. I didn't get to sample the fantastic 'Pantanos de Centla', but I learnt how salinity and human activities impact microbial diversity. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪🧬💧🌎👩💻
Baby spiny-tailed iguanas (Ctenosaura similis) are growing up!❤️🦎
July 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Baby spiny-tailed iguanas (Ctenosaura similis) are growing up!❤️🦎
A beautiful Dione juno on a Roseodendron donnell-smithii leaf. Although their caterpillars ate our plants, it’s nice to see them around! 🦋🐛
July 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A beautiful Dione juno on a Roseodendron donnell-smithii leaf. Although their caterpillars ate our plants, it’s nice to see them around! 🦋🐛
Feliz cumpleaños Xin Xin 🐼 !
🇲🇽 VIDEO: Only panda not owned by China turns 35
The only known giant panda not owned by China, Xin Xin, celebrates her 35th birthday at the Zoo of Chapultepec in Mexico City. She is the last in a line of giant pandas brought to Mexico in 1975.
The only known giant panda not owned by China, Xin Xin, celebrates her 35th birthday at the Zoo of Chapultepec in Mexico City. She is the last in a line of giant pandas brought to Mexico in 1975.
July 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Feliz cumpleaños Xin Xin 🐼 !
Last day of our bioinformatics course! Students learnt about genome assembly, microbiome analysis, creating and documenting code, etc. They’ll apply this knowledge on their research on tropical fish, fungi, iguanas, insect pests. 🧬🧪👩🏽💻
June 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Last day of our bioinformatics course! Students learnt about genome assembly, microbiome analysis, creating and documenting code, etc. They’ll apply this knowledge on their research on tropical fish, fungi, iguanas, insect pests. 🧬🧪👩🏽💻
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Hello Everyone!
We are back for the 2025 edition of the #EvoBioCC 🥳💚✨
Register to our free online course on Evolutionary Biology, focused on supporting the dreams of Global South students hoping to build their careers in the field! Here is the link:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We are back for the 2025 edition of the #EvoBioCC 🥳💚✨
Register to our free online course on Evolutionary Biology, focused on supporting the dreams of Global South students hoping to build their careers in the field! Here is the link:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
EvoBio Crash Course 2025 | Registration Form
The fourth edition of the EvoBio Crash Course has opened registration and we are very happy to have you! We are focusing on delivering a rich course on the basics of evolutionary biology so that stude...
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June 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Hello Everyone!
We are back for the 2025 edition of the #EvoBioCC 🥳💚✨
Register to our free online course on Evolutionary Biology, focused on supporting the dreams of Global South students hoping to build their careers in the field! Here is the link:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We are back for the 2025 edition of the #EvoBioCC 🥳💚✨
Register to our free online course on Evolutionary Biology, focused on supporting the dreams of Global South students hoping to build their careers in the field! Here is the link:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Highway to Tuxtla Gutiérrez was closed. The bus driver had to take the old road crossing La Sepultura natural reserve. It was winding, scary and beautiful. 🌎
May 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Highway to Tuxtla Gutiérrez was closed. The bus driver had to take the old road crossing La Sepultura natural reserve. It was winding, scary and beautiful. 🌎