February 2024: Congratulations to Liliana who obtained her M.S. degree in Mathematical Engineering from the Autonomous University of Querétaro.
January 2024: We wrote a perspective on the Ancestral Recombination graph on Genome Biology and Evolution.
November 2023: Alan and I wrote a News and Views on Nature on recent research documenting past migrations to California from Northwest Mexico dating to approximately 5,000 years ago.
October 2023: Our lab had a strong presence in MexPopGen6 with talks by Alan and Valeria as well as poster presentations by Sebastián, Abad and Alessandro.
September 2023: Our project “A genome-wide genealogical framework for statistical and population genetic analysis” has been awarded an NIH R01 grant! This project is part of a great collaboration with Charleston Chiang, Christian D. Huber, Michael D. “Doc” Edge, Nicholas Mancuso and Iain Mathieson.
September 2023: Valeria defends her bachelor’s thesis and obtains her bachelor in Genomic Sciences degree!
May 2023: Alessandro defends his dissertation and obtains his master in Biological Sciences degree!
April 2023: Diego joins the editorial board of Genome Biology and Evolution.
September 2022: We organized the virtual meeting “SMBE GS4: Using Ancestral Recombination Graphs (ARGs) to Infer Evolutionary Processes” together with Débora Brandt, Charleston Chiang and Christian Huber. Alan gave an oral presentation of his work on that meeting.
June 2022: Alan passes his oral qualifying exam and becomes a PhD candidate!
April 2022: Diego’s paper on the inference of the distribution of fitness effects using haplotype patterns is out. Diego’s paper was a ‘highlighted article’ on the April issue of 2022 on Genetics.
January 2022: Mashaal Sohail, Jeremy J. Berg and Diego edited the Research Topic “Genetic Architecture and Evolution of Complex Traits and Diseases in Diverse Human Populations“, which is a collection of six review articles and three research studies edited by Mashaal, Jeremy and Diego. You can read our editorial here.
December 2021: Our review “Populations, Traits and Their Spatial Structure in Humans” is out on Genome Biology and Evolution. This review is the product of a great collaboration with Mashaal Sohail and is Alan first first-author paper!
April 2021: Alan presented his work on SMBEv 2021.
July 2021: Diego is part of the organizing committee that has won the bid to organize the SMBE meeting on Puerto Vallarta in 2024. This is the first time that this great meeting will be host on Latin America!
April 2021: Alan presented his work on Probgen21.
December 2020: We contributed to the organization of the very successful and fun MexPopGen5 meeting. Alan presented his research with María Ávila’s lab at the meeting and all the presentations from the meeting are available here.
November 2020: Diego taught a course on Evolution in the Genomic Sciences Undergraduate Program. I tried doing small clips of less than six minutes explaining key class concepts and some of them are now available here.
June 2020: Alan joins the lab as our first PhD student.
January 2020: Valeria joins our group. Welcome!
October 2019: We were awarded a PAPIIT-UNAM grant to study the evolution of alleles under natural selection.
September 2019: Our paper on a new method to infer the distribution of fitness effects from haplotype data is now available on the BioRxiv.
July 2019: We were awarded a UC MEXUS-CONACYT Collaborative Grant to collaborate with Rasmus Nielsen on the development of new computational methods to infer past demographic events and the impact of natural selection jointly using ancient and present-day samples.
June 2019: Diego presented his work on demographic inferences under the isolation migration model using present-day and ancient samples at the Evolution 2019 meeting.
May 2019: Liliana Chavaje and Ximena Vargas join our group. Welcome!
December 2018: Our paper ‘Fst between archaic and present-day samples‘ is now available at Heredity. We developed analytical theory to explain how Fst values depends on both the distance and time separating two sampled genomes, one from the present and one from the past. We explored this under different demographic models that include a partial population replacement and an stepping-stone model. We show an application of our results to data from modern and archaic European human populations.
September 2018: The Computational Population Genetics Group is now open for business.