Laura Guzmán Dávalos (born 1961) is a Mexican mycologist, biologist and lichenologist.
From 2007 to 2014, she served as the general coordinator of the UdeG doctoral program in ecology, biosystematics, and natural and agricultural resources management.
Guzmán-Dávalos was born in Mexico City in 1961,[1] and is the daughter of the well-known ethnomycologist, Gaston Guzmán (1932–2016)[2][3] who devoted his life and research to mushrooms of the genus Psilocybe, and their medicinal and divinatory uses of mushrooms by various Indigenous peoples of Mexico.
[5][6] Guzman-Davalos' mycological research[7] includes the genera Ganoderma, Psilocybe, Pluteus and Gymnopilus (Cortinariaceae).
[9][10] She has conducted mycological and lichenological exploration and field work in Belgium, China, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Guatemala, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom the United States and Venezuela.