Grey seals, seals in the water, harbour porpoise under Water, Grey seal at the beach
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Laura Rojas Cortes
Laura Rojas Cortes

PERSONAL PROFILE

  • Bachelor’s degree in Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics, Master’s degree in Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics of wildlife with practical experience in monitoring and conservation of marine mammals.

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

  • NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO, Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics Faculty
    -Bachelor’s degree in Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics – 2013-2019
    -Master’s degree in Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics of wildlife- 2019-2022

WORKING EXPERIENCIE

  • Master’s degree activities
    - Knowledge and application in Geometric morphometrics data
    - Anatomical descriptions of the inner ear

Professional Stay, Colima University, University marine mammal research group. UdeC, GUIMM/ 6 months (November 2018-April 2019)
- Photo ID-cetaceans
- Acoustic recordings
- Skin sampling

Internship (Social service in research area) Disease Ecology and One Health Laboratory, UNAM FMVZ / 6 months (August 2017-February 2018)

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

  • Monitoring and conservation of wild cetaceans
  • Inner ear anatomy in harbor seal
  • Data analysis
  • Geometric morphometrics 

PUBLICATIONS & APPEAREANCES

Rojas, L., Haulena, M., Reichmuth, C., Busse, B., Ramos-Garduño, L. A., Rico-Chávez, O., Siebert, U., & Morell, M. (2023). Ultrastructure of the organ of Corti in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina). Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1211556

Morell, M., Rojas, L., Haulena, M., Busse, B., Siebert, U., Shadwick, R. E., & Raverty, S. A. (2022). Selective Inner Hair Cell Loss in a Neonate Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina). Animals12(2), 180

Science outreach article “Cetaceans also suffer of noisy neighbours”, ¿Cómo ves? UNAM No.255

Blog post- Disease Ecology and One Health Laboratory “whales, easy to love them but how to study them? https://ecologiaenfermedades.home.blog/2019/03/04/ballenas-facil-amarlas-pero-como-estudiarlas/