And that's a wrap for #LIIGH10anniversary colloquium! @paleogenomics.bsky.social gives us emotive closing words and some stats - this has been a fantastic three days of interesting science and interactions! @liigh-unam.bsky.social

Last but not least! The last talk of the #cancer #genomics symposium and our colloquium is by Alfredo Hidalgo, from the National Institute for Genomic Medicine 🇲🇽, and he is telling us about the genomic architecture of #breast #tumours in Mexican patients @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

We are still at the #cancer #genomics session! We are now listening to @dbm003.bsky.social @fredhutch.bsky.social talk about the diverse roles of human endogenous #retroviruses in cancer @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

Now we are listening to @davidjadams.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social who is talking about how to use #saturation #genome editing to understand #genetic #variants of unknown function (with a recap on what the @liigh-unam.bsky.social -trained Mexicans are doing at Sanger!) #LIIGH10anniversary

I gave my talk! Now we are listening to Rich White @ox.ac.uk @ludwigcancer.bsky.social talk about cell fate in #melanoma using #zebrafish 🐟 #LIIGH10anniversary @liigh-unam.bsky.social

We are now listening to @alemedinarivera.bsky.social talk about her lab's projects on the power of community data, the LupusRGMX and #immune cell research in #LatinAmerica @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

The second talk on the #biobank innovations for #genomics and #health #equity is by @sramach.bsky.social at Brown University 🇺🇸, who is telling us about methodological challenges and opportunities generated by relatives in biobanks @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

Day 3 of the #LIIGH10anniversary symposium is underway! We start the #biobank innovations for #genomics and #health #equity session with a presentation by @crisvanhout.bsky.social on how to harness biobank data-scale data for common disease research in Mexico 🇲🇽 @liigh-unam.bsky.social

The last talk of the #gene #regulation and #disease is by Jacques van Helden from @univ-amu.fr, who has been a teacher at LCG-UNAM since its birth 20 years ago! He is telling us about #bioinformatic approaches to decipher cis-regulatory elements @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

We're now listening to Maria Gutierrez @bostonchildrens.bsky.social! We were classmates at the Genome Science program at UNAM. Nice shout out to when we had to paint ourselves with our non-dominant hand! She's talking about B-Cell activation in #Lupus @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

The first talk of the #gene #regulation and #disease session is by @cgonzagaj.bsky.social, who is talking about the horizon of genomics research for #rare diseases in Mexico 🇲🇽 and Latin America @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

The last talk of the #human #genetic #variation session is by Charles Lee @jacksonlab.bsky.social, who is telling us about human structural variants in complex regions of the genome and throughout evolution @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

We are now listening to @mashaals.bsky.social, from CCG UNAM 🇲🇽, talk about the multi-scale complexity of human genetic variation and how to think about classifications of humans @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

We continue with the #human genetic variation and ancient #genomics session! Our next speaker is @delvecchyo.bsky.social, who is telling us about how to use geographical and temporal information to infer the action of natural #selection @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

Now we are listening to Rori Rohlfs, from @uoregon.bsky.social & @sciencewisepod.bsky.social, talk about tandem repeat variant #evolution in #primates 🐒
@liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

The next talk is by @fsanchezquinto.bsky.social, who is celebrating his 1st year anniversary @liigh-unam.bsky.social and also his birthday! 🎉🎈🎂 He is talking about paleo genomics of Mexican 🇲🇽 megafauna and their demographic histories 🦣 #LIIGH10anniversary

We start day 2 of the @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary colloquium! The first session is on ancient genomics and human genetic variation, and is kicked off by @paleogenomics.bsky.social's talk on the history of Mexico 🇲🇽 through a #paleogenomics lens 🧬🔎

Last but not least is PhD student Ana Lau Hernandez from @alemedinarivera.bsky.social's lab, and she is telling us about her project on investigating gene expression changes during tolerance induction in #dendritic cells in women with #lupus @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

The next #flashtalk is by PhD student Laura Carrillo from @paleogenomics.bsky.social's group and she is talking about pathogen diversity and evolution in colonial Mexico City 🇲🇽 using #paleogenomics methods @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

We are now listening to Leonardo Hernandez from @crisvanhout.bsky.social's group talk about his project on method comparison to identify #risk factors for cerebrovascular disease in a Mexico City population 🇲🇽 @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

The next talk is by PhD student Alan Izarraras from @delvecchyo.bsky.social's group, and he is telling us about how to infer the distribution of fitness effects using local genealogies @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

Now our own PhD student Paty Basurto is talking about her project on #acral #melanoma #genomics in 🇲🇽 and her findings regarding genomic subtypes - you can read all about her work here
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Next is Samuel Quiñones from @lumoralesr.bsky.social's group, and is on a transcriptomic analysis of agave-derived #yeast strains in response to lignocellulosic #biomass for bioethanol production @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

Next up is Rigoberto Padilla from @fsanchezquinto.bsky.social's group on how the autosomal genome informs us about the evolutionary history of Columbian mammoths 🦣 in Mexico 🇲🇽 @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

Now the flash talks of @liigh-unam.bsky.social students! First up Natalia Said from @surh.bsky.social 's group on the responses of the Rhizosphere bacterial communities to global warming #LIIGH10anniversary

The last talk on the biological and molecular systems session is by @planaria1.bsky.social @stowersinstitute.bsky.social, who is talking about approaches to understand the source of regenerative capacities in animals @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

Celebrating #LIIGH10anniversary!! So proud of being part of @liigh-unam.bsky.social community, and thankful for the opportunity to present our work today to this amazing audience.

We are now listening to Luis Larrondo from U. Católica 🇨🇱 talk about #optogenetics circuits and how to map transcriptional responses and population dynamics in #fungi @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary

We start the second session on biological and molecular systems #LIIGH10anniversary! @mgschiavon.bsky.social is giving a great talk on approaches to understand #feedback #control in biological systems @liigh-unam.bsky.social

The last talk in the #Ecology and #Evolution session is by Gabriela Olmedo from CINVESTAV 🇲🇽, who is talking about the evolution of microbial rivalries in sediment bacterial communities @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGH10anniversary