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
MORELL, M.; Reichmuth, C.; Rojas, L.; Sills, J.; Duignan, P.; Busse, B.; Failla, A. ; Siebert, U., 2024. Correlation Between Cochlear Damage and Noise-induced Hearing Loss in a Harbor Seal. talk, 25th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, 11-15 Nov 2024, Perth, Western Australia. 2024
Rojas, L., Moosmann, J., Beckmann, F., Moysan, L., Siebert, U., IJsseldijk, L., Fiedler, I. A. K., Busse, B., Morell, M. 2024. Suitability of synchrotron-radiation phase-contrast tomography for imaging of inner ear of harbor porpoise. Proceedings Volume 13152, Developments in X-Ray Tomography XV, 1315223 http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.3029198
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). Animals, 12(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/
