Dr. Alejandra Medina Rivera
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Dr. Alejandra Medina Rivera

Alejandra obtained her Ph.D. in 2012 from the Biomedical Sciences Program at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), with a project developed under a cotutorship between Dr. Collado, at UNAM, and Dr. van Helden at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Since her Ph.D., she has been focused on developing bioinformatic tools, and strategies to study gene...

Dr. Lucía Morales
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Dr. Lucía Morales

Lucía Morales received her Ph.D. in molecular genetics and genomics from the University Pierre and Marie Curie and the Pasteur-Paris University International Ph.D. program under the supervision of Dr. Bernard Dujon. During her Ph.D. thesis and postdoc at the Pasteur Institute, she studied the role of genomic rearrangements in the evolution of natural yeast genomes...

Dr. María C. Ávila Arcos
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Dr. María C. Ávila Arcos

María obtained her BSc degree in Genomic Sciences from UNAM (National University of Mexico) in 2009. Soon after that she moved to Copenhagen, Denmark to study a Ph.D. specializing in Paleogenomics at the Centre for GeoGenetics under the supervision of Tom Gilbert. She obtained her Ph.D. diploma in 2013 and stayed an extra year as...

Dr. C. Daniela Robles-Espinoza
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Dr. C. Daniela Robles-Espinoza

Daniela obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK, in February 2015, under the supervision of Dr. David Adams at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. During her PhD and postdoctoral research, she studied the mechanisms of genetic predisposition to the aggressive skin cancer melanoma, and contributed to the development of tools to interpret and...

Dr. V. Diego Ortega del Vecchyo
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Dr. V. Diego Ortega del Vecchyo

Diego obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016 under the cotutorship of John Novembre and Kirk Lohmueller. His graduate research was focused on how demographic history impacts the genetic variation of alleles under natural selection using genomic information from canines and humans. Following his PhD studies, he did a Postdoc...

Dr. Mariana Gómez Schiavón
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Dr. Mariana Gómez Schiavón

Mariana obtained her B.Sc. degree in Genomic Sciences from UNAM (2009), her M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering and Physics from CINVESTAV Monterrey (2011) under the supervision of Dr. Moisés Santillán, and her Ph.D. degree in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics from Duke University (2016) under the supervision of Dr. Nicolas Buchler. Her graduate research explored how...

Dr. Claudia Gonzaga Jauregui
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Dr. Claudia Gonzaga Jauregui

Claudia Gonzaga-Jauregui did her undergraduate studies in Genomic Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She obtained her PhD in Molecular and Human Genetics from Baylor College of Medicine, where she contributed to large population genomic studies such as HapMap 3 and pioneered the analyses of genomic sequencing data for the identification of...

Dr. Cristopher Van Hout
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Dr. Cristopher Van Hout

Cris trained at the University of Michigan, graduating with a M.A. in statistics and Ph.D. in Human Genetics, and a thesis focused on the population genomics of the Old Order Amish of Pennsylvania. He took a postdoctoral position at Cornell University with research topics in applied statistical genetics in human and non-model organisms. Over the years,...

Dr. Sur Herrera Paredes
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Dr. Sur Herrera Paredes

Sur obtained his B.Sc. in Genomic Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2009. In 2017 he obtained his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying the plant microbiome under the co-supervision of Prof. Jefferey L. Dangl and Prof. Corbin D. Jones. Afterwards, he was a postdoctoral fellow...