Biologist graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and I completed a master's in Biochemical Sciences at the same university. I obtained my Natural Sciences PhD in 2013 at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. I am interested in the relationship between immune response and metabolism in vertebrates and invertebrates. During my career, I have worked with immunity in humans and wildlife animals at cellular-molecular and organismic levels. I am interested in bats because they exhibit high viral infection tolerance and have exciting features like powered flight. Although it is clear that bats have unique features in their immune response, we do not know how the bat microbiota can interact with the bats' immune system to shape a protective immune response.