Damar López-Arredondo, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor, of the Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance at Texas Tech University. Damar is a biochemical engineer with a Ph.D. specialized in plant biotechnology by the National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (Langebio-Cinvestav) in Mexico. Her research interests include the genetic improvement of crops and the development of new agricultural technologies by taking advantage of the genetic diversity in microalgae, using high-throughput screening, genetic engineering, genome mining and bioinformatic approaches. Her current projects include research on new compounds with herbicidal and nematicidal effect, and the study of regulatory networks on lipid biosynthesis.