[2] His career experience includes the milling of grain and oil-producing seeds, the making of bread and tortillas, soft drink production, development of pharmaceuticals, and book reviews.
[4] He has worked and consulted for Mexican and international businesses and agencies such as the National Food Research Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, SUSTAIN (US Agency for International Development), Gamesa, GIMSA, Química SUMEX, Omega Tech and other organizations related to food and nutrition.
[1][2] Serna permanently returned to Mexico under a repatriation program for Mexican scientists sponsored by the federal agency CONACyT and worked as a professor at the University of Sonora before his current position.
[2] His research specialties are the processing of cereals and oil-producing seeds, the extraction of phytochemicals for medicinal use and fermentation enzyme biotechnology.
[2] Serna is a holder of two patents in the United States: agave syrup extract having anticancer activity (US 20130209588), with Janet Alejandra Gutierrez Uribe and Liliana Santo Zea; and a method for obtaining bioethanol from sorghum grain (sorghum bicolor L. Moench) comprising steps involving decortication and hydrolysis with proteases (20110014671) with Esther Perez Carrillo and Mario Moises Alvarez.