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Research interests

• Behavioral modulation of neuroendocrineimmune interactions
• Disgust and disease avoidant behaviors
• Mechanism of the eating inhibitory effects of gut peptides
• Obesogenic environment and adiposity effects on cognitive performance
• Microbiota-Gut-Brain axis

Profile

Dr. Gustavo Pacheco López is a well-established neuroscientist specializing in Integrative Behavioral Neuroscience. His research focuses on the behavioral modulation of neuro-endocrine-immune interactions, central processing of peripheral immune signals, the microbiota-gut-brain axis, and the neurobiological mechanisms associated with feeding behavior, obesity, and metabolic syndrome.

Using an interdisciplinary approach based on both animal and human models, he has incorporated a wide range of advanced methodologies, including fMRI, µCT, bioimpedance spectroscopy, next-generation DNA sequencing, in vivo indirect calorimetry, biopotential telemetry, and symbolic and nonlinear analysis of physiological signals (such as Poincaré plots and symbolic dynamics applied to cardio-electrohysterographic data).

He is the author of 87 peer-reviewed scientific articles and 10 book chapters and has an H-index of 27, with over 2,300 international citations. He has supervised and graduated 13 PhD students, 13 Master’s students, 10 undergraduate theses, as well as eight postdoctoral researchers and four associate researchers, consolidating a distinguished career in high-level academic mentorship.

His academic training spans Mexico, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, with degrees and research stays at UAM, UNAM, the University of Duisburg-Essen, and international appointments at ETH Zurich and Leiden University. He is proficient in Spanish, English, and German, with professional experience in French- and Dutch-speaking academic contexts.

He currently serves as a Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Lerma Campus, where he also coordinates the CI3M-Mexiquense node, part of the National Laboratory for Research in Instrumentation and Medical Imaging (CI3M). He has also held the position of Vice President of Outreach and International Affairs at UAM’s General Rectorship since March 2023. He previously served as Director of the Division of Biological and Health Sciences (2018–2022) and Founding Chair of the Department of Health Sciences at the same campus (2011–2015).

Internationally, he has maintained active academic collaborations. He has been an Honorary Professor at ETH Zurich since 2012 and a Senior Researcher affiliated with Leiden University since 2014, where he is also a member of the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC). He has participated in international research networks such as the Neuro-Psycho-Biota Consortium and the OBETEEN Consortium, exploring the neurocognitive and microbiological effects of obesogenic environments.

He has received numerous honors, including the State of Mexico Science and Technology Award (2017), the Cleveringa Lecture recognition awarded by Leiden University and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Mexico (2017), as well as Level 3 membership in Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNII, 2021–2026) and PRODEP Desirable Profile designation (2015–2024). He has also been a recipient of academic fellowships from DAAD (Germany) and CONACYT (Mexico).

He has secured research funding from various national and international agencies, including CONACYT, SEP, COMECYT, ETH Zurich, the ETH Foundation, the French National Research Agency (ANR), DAAD, and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), totaling over USD 2,000,000 in extramural support.

He is an active member of several distinguished scientific societies, including:

• PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society (PNIRS)
• Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB)
• New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)
• The Obesity Society (TOS)
• International Society for NeuroImmunoModulation (ISNIM)
• German Endocrine-Brain-Immune Network (GEBIN)
• Mexican Society of Neuroimmunoendocrinology (SMNIE)

His teaching experience spans undergraduate and graduate courses in physiology, neurodevelopment, statistics using R, and neuropsychology, taught at institutions such as UAM, UNAM, CINVESTAV, and ETH Zurich, reflecting his strong commitment to international scientific education.

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Open Access	References	UN SDGs
OA	García-Gómez, L., Romero-Rebollar, C., Ferreira, G. and 18 more (...) (2026).Adolescents Who Are Overweight or Obese Exhibit Weaker Spatial and Verbal Working Memory Compared with Healthy-Weight Peers. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology,41(3)	\| 3 \|
OA	Ackerman, J.M., Samore, T., Fessler, D.M.T. and 112 more (...) (2025).I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity,128737-750	\| 3 \|
OA	Osorio-Gómez, D., Perez, C.I., Salcedo-Tello, P. and 7 more (...) (2024).Early-life and chronic exposure to high-fat diet alters noradrenergic and glutamatergic neurotransmission in the male rat amygdala and hippocampus under cognitive challenges. Journal of Neuroscience Research,102(6)	\| 3 \|
	López-Troncoso, Ó.J., Reyes-Lagos, J.J., Hadamitzky, M. and 5 more (...) (2024).Assessing the effects of oxytocin in changes of core body temperature during LPS-induced endotoxemia: A novel approach using Extended Poincaré Plot Analysis. Journal of Thermal Biology,119
OA	Pérez-Morales, M., Bello-Medina, P.C., González-Franco, D.A. and 3 more (...) (2024).Steering the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis by Antibiotics to Model Neuro-Immune-Endocrine Disorders. NeuroImmunoModulation,31(1) 89-101	\| 3 \|
OA	Santoyo-Zedillo, M., Andriot, I., Lucchi, G. and 4 more (...) (2023).Dedicated odor-taste stimulation design for fMRI flavor studies. Journal of Neuroscience Methods,393
OA	Ferraretto, A., Donetti, E., García-Mena, J. and 1 more (...) (2023).Editorial: The gut-skin-brain axis in human health and disease. Frontiers in Nutrition,10
	Hernández-Ramírez, S., Salcedo-Tello, P., Osorio-Gómez, D. and 5 more (...) (2022).Voluntary physical activity improves spatial and recognition memory deficits induced by post-weaning chronic exposure to a high-fat diet. Physiology and Behavior,254	\| 3 \|
	Vargas-Rodríguez, I., Reyes-Castro, L.A., Pacheco-López, G. and 4 more (...) (2022).Postnatal exposure to lipopolysaccharide combined with high-fat diet consumption induces immune tolerance without prevention in spatial working memory impairment. Behavioural Brain Research,423	\| 3 \|
	González-Sánchez, A., Reyes-Lagos, J.J., Peña-Castillo, M.A. and 3 more (...) (2022).Vaginal Microbiota Is Stable and Mainly Dominated by Lactobacillus at Third Trimester of Pregnancy and Active Childbirth: A Longitudinal Study of Ten Mexican Women. Current Microbiology,79(8)
OA	Romero-Rebollar, C., García-Gómez, L., Báez-Yáñez, M.G. and 2 more (...) (2022).Adiposity affects emotional information processing. Frontiers in Psychology,13	\| 3 \|
OA	Pinacho-Guendulain, B., Montiel-Castro, A.J., Ramos-Fernández, G. and 1 more (...) (2022).Social complexity as a driving force of gut microbiota exchange among conspecific hosts in non-human primates. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience,16
OA	Reyes-Lagos, J.J., Abarca-Castro, E.A., Echeverría, J.C. and 3 more (...) (2021).A Translational Perspective of Maternal Immune Activation by SARS-CoV-2 on the Potential Prenatal Origin of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The Role of the Cholinergic Anti-inflammatory Pathway. Frontiers in Psychology,12	\| 3 \|
OA	Skvortsova, A., Veldhuijzen, D.S., Kloosterman, I.E.M. and 2 more (...) (2021).Food anticipatory hormonal responses: A systematic review of animal and human studies. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews,126447-464	\| 3 \|
OA	Pacheco-López, G., Pérez-Morales, M., Guzmán-Ramos, K.R. and 3 more (...) (2021).Editorial: Obesogenic Environmental Conditions Affect Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration. Frontiers in Neuroscience,15	\| 3 \|
	Tepichín-Castro, C.A., Ledesma-Ramírez, C.I., Peña-Castillo, M.Á. and 3 more (...) (2021).Joint symbolic dynamics identifies differences in the maternal-fetal cardiac coupling between nonlaboring and laboring women. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control,68
OA	Naneix, F., Bakoyiannis, I., Santoyo-Zedillo, M. and 4 more (...) (2021).Chemogenetic silencing of hippocampus and amygdala reveals a double dissociation in periadolescent obesogenic diet-induced memory alterations. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory,178	\| 3 \|
OA	Bello-Medina, P.C., Hernández-Quiroz, F., Pérez-Morales, M. and 5 more (...) (2021).Spatial Memory and Gut Microbiota Alterations Are Already Present in Early Adulthood in a Pre-clinical Transgenic Model of Alzheimer’s Disease. Frontiers in Neuroscience,15
OA	Skvortsova, A., Veldhuijzen, D.S., Pacheco-Lopez, G. and 11 more (...) (2020).Placebo effects in the neuroendocrine system: Conditioning of the oxytocin responses. Psychosomatic Medicine,82(1) 47-56
OA	Montalvo-Jaramillo, C.I., Pliego-Carrillo, A.C., Peña-Castillo, M.Á. and 9 more (...) (2020).Comparison of fetal heart rate variability by symbolic dynamics at the third trimester of pregnancy and low-risk parturition. Heliyon,6(3)
OA	Skvortsova, A., Veldhuijzen, D.S., de Rover, M. and 6 more (...) (2020).Effects of oxytocin administration and conditioned oxytocin on brain activity: An fMRI study. PLoS ONE,15(3)
OA	Meeuwis, S.H., van Middendorp, H., van Laarhoven, A.I.M. and 5 more (...) (2020).Placebo and nocebo effects for itch and itch-related immune outcomes: A systematic review of animal and human studies. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews,113325-337
OA	García-Gómez, L., Romero-Rebollar, C., Hartmann, C. and 5 more (...) (2020).Food Disgust Scale: Spanish Version. Frontiers in Psychology,11
OA	Reyes-Lagos, J.J., Pliego-Carrillo, A.C., Ledesma-Ramírez, C.I. and 4 more (...) (2020).Phase entropy analysis of electrohysterographic data at the third trimester of human pregnancy and active parturition. Entropy,22(8)
OA	Montero-Nava, J.E., Pliego-Carrillo, A.C., Ledesma-Ramírez, C.I. and 4 more (...) (2020).Analysis of the fetal cardioelectrohysterographic coupling at the third trimester of gestation in healthy women by Bivariate Phase-Rectified Signal Averaging. PLoS ONE,15(7)
	Esquivel-Arizmendi, C.G., Ledesma-Ramírez, C.I., Pliego-Carillo, A.C. and 4 more (...) (2020).Analysis of the Maternal Cardio-Electrohysterographic Coupling During Labor by Bivariate Phase-Rectified Signal Averaging. IFMBE Proceedings,7521-27
OA	Flores-Duarte, I.M., Pliego-Padilla, A.C., Ledesma-Martínez, C.I. and 4 more (...) (2020).Comparison of linear and nonlinear algorithms for detection of cardiorespiratory uncoupling in endotoxemic rats. Revista Mexicana de Ingenieria Biomedica,41(1)
	Hadamitzky, M., Lückemann, L., Pacheco-López, G. and 1 more (...) (2020).Pavlovian conditioning of immunological and neuroendocrine functions. Physiological Reviews,100(1) 357-405

Courses taught by the professor in recent trimesters

*Courses are conducted in spanish

Num.	Trim.	Course Name	Level
1	26I	Trabajo de Redacción de Tesis I	Posgrado
2	25O	Seminario VII	Posgrado
3	25O	Trabajo de Investigación IX	Posgrado
4	25P	Trabajo de Investigación VIII	Posgrado
5	25P	Trabajo de Redacción de Tesis I	Posgrado
6	25I	Trabajo de Investigación VII	Posgrado
7	24O	Seminario VI	Posgrado
8	24O	Seminario VII	Posgrado
9	24O	Trabajo de Investigación IX	Posgrado
10	24O	Trabajo de Investigación VI	Posgrado
11	24P	Seminario V	Posgrado
12	24P	Trabajo de Investigación VIII	Posgrado
13	24P	Trabajo de Investigación V	Posgrado
14	24P	Proyecto Terminal de Psicología Biomédica II	Licenciatura
15	24I	Proyecto Terminal de Psicología Biomédica I	Licenciatura
16	24I	Seminario IV	Posgrado
17	24I	Trabajo de Investigación IV	Posgrado
18	24I	Trabajo de Investigación VII	Posgrado
19	23O	Trabajo de Investigación VI	Posgrado
20	23O	Trabajo de Investigación III	Posgrado
21	23O	Seminario III	Posgrado
22	23O	Seminario VI	Posgrado
23	23P	Seminario II	Posgrado
24	23P	Seminario V	Posgrado
25	23P	Trabajo de Investigación II	Posgrado
26	23P	Trabajo de Investigación V	Posgrado
27	23I	Seminario I	Posgrado
28	23I	Seminario IV	Posgrado
29	23I	Trabajo de Investigación I	Posgrado
30	23I	Trabajo de Investigación IV	Posgrado
31	22O	Fisiología de la Conducta	Licenciatura
32	22O	Trabajo de Investigación III	Posgrado
33	22O	Sensopercepción	Licenciatura
34	22O	Seminario III	Posgrado
35	22O	Normativa y Regulaciones en la Experimentación Clínica	Licenciatura
36	22P	Seminario II	Posgrado
37	22P	Trabajo de Investigación II	Posgrado
38	22I	Proyecto Terminal de Psicología Biomédica I	Licenciatura
39	22I	Seminario I	Posgrado
40	22I	Trabajo de Investigación I	Posgrado

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