2nd International Conference on
Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine

Keyana’s expertise in veterinary medicine has sparked her interest in continuing to provide education on how to better provide quality care amongst many animal species. She has been in veterinary medicine for 10 years and has been practicing as a licensed veterinary technician for 2.5 years now.

Veterinary Medicine

Nidia Arechiga-Ceballos holds a degree in Biology from the School of Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. She completed her Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Biochemical Sciences at the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas of the Instituto Politecnico Nacional. She has been a guest researcher at different institutions, including: Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas; the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France; and the Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, in the Poxvirus and Rabies Branch of the USA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta, Georgia. She completed a post-doc at the Unit for Viral Isolation and Detection of the National Center for Microbiology at the Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Madrid, Spain. In 2012, she won Mexico’s national prize for Scientific Journalism and Outreach. She belongs to the Mexican Network of Virology and the Latin American Society for Vector Ecology. She is currently technical support at the Diagnosis and Reference Direction of the Mexican Reference Laboratory InDRE, formerly she was the Chief of the Rabies Laboratory and coordinated the National Network of Public Health Laboratories for Rabies Diagnosis. Her research is focused on viral diseases in wildlife, particularly in bats and procyonids.

Zoonosis, Molecular Epidemiology, Wildlife diseases