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Group

Cancer Genomics and Bioinformatics

Dr. Christian Molina-Aguilar

Staff Technical Support

Dr. Christian Molina Aguilar is a biologist with a PhD in biomedical sciences from UNAM. He currently works as an academic technician at the Institute. He has experience in laboratory techniques such as, cell culture, handling and care of laboratory mice and rats, PDX models of melanoma, histology, and molecular biology techniques. Dr. Molina also works as a wet lab´s projects manager.

He is interested in animal models of liver diseases such as MASLD, fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular cancer, as well as in the study of the epistatic relationship between genes associated with the induction of liver pathologies and genes with protective effects against damage.

Articles

2026

LIIGH, research, mammoths, palaeogenomics

Ancient mammoth DNA from Mexico reveals an unexpected lineage—and a more complex evolutionary story

A new study in Science, led by LIIGH researchers, has recovered mitochondrial genomes from..

02-01-2026

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People

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M. Sc. Patricia Basurto-Lozada

PhD candidate studying the somatic genomic profile of acral melanoma in Mexican patients. ..

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Dra. Lucía Morales

Dr. Lucía Morales leads the Genome Evolution group at the International Laboratory for Hu..

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B.Sc. María Fernanda Talavera-Cruz

Fer completed her bachelor’s thesis at the CGBioLab (LIIGH-UNAM), where she investigated..

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Postdoctoral researcher Maritrini Colón González

Maritrini is a postdoctoral researcher who has been working with yeast since her PhD. Her ..

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