Graciela Huerta Palacios, PhD in Biological Sciences from UNAM, is a researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) in the academic group Arthropod Ecology and Pest Management. Her research interests are tropical phytopathology, microorganism-plant-pathogen interactions, and microbial control of plant and insect pathogens. She is currently studying the interactions between the natural microbiota of coffee plants and their pathogens. She is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI), level I.