Outreach

Videos

Preserving heirloom potatoes with science

A DW report on my Bitter Potatoes research.

From malaria to gin and tonic: the story of the fever tree

Excited to have recorded (with great help!) a short video about my PhD project.

The quest for Cinchona

The Cinchona collections I work with belong to the Economic Botany collection in RBG Kew, curated by Prof. Mark Nesbitt, who was also my PhD co-supervisor: Economic Botany Collection | Kew

Popular Science

ROOTING OUR LIBERATION

On my time working alongside Indigenous agricultural and botanical experts in the Andean regions of Bolivia and Peru.

How would Darwin do Fieldwork today?

Annual Darwin Debate organised by the Centre for Ecology and Evolution UCL. 12th Feb, 2025.

What is biopiracy? COP16

My take on how biopiracy relates to the autonomy of the Andean and Amazonian communities of Peru.

Allinyachiymanta

A piece on how I heal, what is setting us back from healing, and how we can heal as a community, from my Andean and Amazonian cosmovision.

Principles for Engaging with Traditional Ecological Knowledges in Urban Systems

Collaborative report on crucial terms, principles and pieces around Traditional Ecological Knowledges by Indigenous and Land-Kinned peoples.

The Fever Tree Hunt

"Most heists target gold, jewels or cash. This one targeted illegal seeds".

Bitter Barks ‑ The legacies and futures of the fever tree

A book chapter in "This book is a plant", Wellcome Collection. Also, in Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine, 2022.

Científica peruana obtiene doctorado en Dinamarca sobre el árbol de la quina

Interview about my PhD defence in a Peruvian medium: El Popular. September 19, 2021.

The tree that changed the world map

Interviewed by Vittoria Traverso for BBC travel. May 28, 2020.

No, la corteza del árbol de la quina no es la cura al coronavirus

For Rumbos on April 7, 2020.

Botanists as time travellers

On our Bolivian fieldwork. February 7, 2019.

Kew Orchid Festival 2025

Science Talks. 14th Feb 2025

Preserving the Bitter Potatoes diversity in the Andes

The Natural History Museum of Denmark featured my research on agrobiodiversity of Bitter Potatoes. Dec, 2024.

Entrevista a una genetista de la quina

Interview about my quina work for Paisajes Fantasma

Guardians of Quina

An interview on how Western science and ancestral knowledges can complement each other to find solutions to biodiversity loss and climate crises.

Living Indigenous Encyclopaedias For Health Justice

Interview about my work and experiences in urban spaces as Indigenous and Indigenous Ecological Knowledges for urban setups.

The Roots of a Scientist

A five-story series commissioned by the Wellcome Collection. April‑May, 2022.

La razón por la que hago ciencia es por mi país

Interview about the importance of research in biodiversity in a Peruvian medium specialized in environmental issues: Inforegión. September 27, 2021.

(Dis)placement in the time of the coronavirus

A blog post about my placement at NTNU during the coronavirus outbreak. June 24, 2020.

El árbol de la quina no es cura al coronavirus

Interviewed by Jesica León for La República. April 25, 2020.

No, cinchona bark is not a cure for coronavirus

Our piece on the cinchona bark use for covid. The Conversation UK on March 31, 2020.

Talks

Rooted in Resistance - Agrobiodiversity of Bitter Potatoes. Interdisciplinary Big Ideas at NC State University. 18th April 2025.
Perspectivas paleogenómicas, metabólicas y de archivos de cinchona y papas amargas. Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima-Peru. 9 de abril 2024.
A conversation with art historian Ricardo Kusunoki about Malú Cabellos' exhibition “Árbol de la Fiebre”. Centro Cultural Inca Garcilaso. 31st Aug 2023.
Unleashing the potential of Andean flora: a case study of the fever tree and bitter potatoes. Invited by Multidimensional Dialogues CRASSH/Americas Archaeology Group - University of Cambridge. 25th Jan 2023.
Quinas: bajo el lente paleogenómico, químico e histórico. 2nd International Symposium “Rescuing the fever tree”, Peru. 17th June 2022.
The ethnopharmacology of Cinchona bark and the history of quinine. For the Young Researcher Forum in the International Conference of Society of Ethnopharmacology, Taiwan. 28th-31st May 2022
Quinas: through the palaeogenomic, chemical, and archival glass. Women in Bioinformatics Meeting, Peru. 11th-12th March 2022.
Palaeogenomic perspectives of the biodiversity of historical Cinchona barks. 1st International symposium ”Rescuing the fever tree”, Peru. June 2‑4th, 2021(virtually).
Paleogenomic analysis of Cinchona bark collections. Natural History Museum department, NTNU. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. March 26th, 2020.
Cinchona bark collections: from alkaloids to genomes. Science talks at The Botanics. Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK. Jan 26th, 2020.
Reconectando las colecciones de Cinchona en Madrid y Kew (Real expedición botánica al virreinato del Perú). Synthesys+ presentation, RJB Madrid. Madrid, Spain. October 2nd, 2019.
Semillas históricas del árbol de la quina (Cinchona sp): de leyenda a historia. Simposio Peruano de Diversidad y Taxonomía Vegetal. Lima, Peru. Remotely. September 19th, 2019.
Paleogenomic annotation of historical Cinchona bark samples across time and space. 3rd UK Plant Evolution meeting ‑ Early researchers session. Kew Gardens, London, UK. 3 ‑ 5th of April 2019.