Researcher at
@cinvestav
Mexico 🇲🇽, Cochair
@LatinGenomes
, Executive Committee member
@ICDAbio
. Population genetics, human diversity, Latin American genomics.
The
@moreno_lab
retreat after
#SMBE2024
was a blast! So fortunate and grateful to get to work with this amazing team of bright and young scientists from LATAM! 📢 Interested in joining the lab and enjoying wonderful retreats? 🌴😎 Send us a DM! ✉️
First time I get the cover of a magazine and it's in
@Nature
! Had this idea to illustrate the diversity captured by the MX Biobank across Mexico and brilliant designer
@mauguz33
brought it to life inspired by indigenous Huichol art from near my home town.
The MX Biobank paper is out today in
@Nature
! This is the first national-scale genomic database in Mexico and the largest independent project led by my lab
@cinvestav
since I returned to my home country to help building local capacity.
Big news from the
@moreno_lab
in Mexico: our Easter Island paper is out today in Nature! 🗿 Incredible work by
@alexGioannidis
and
@JavierBioBlanco
along an amazing collaborative network across 🇲🇽🇨🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸🇳🇴and local communities in LatAm and the Pacific!
You don't get this kind of Emails very often, and less so for submissions coming from Latin America. The news from this Mexico-led international effort are a balm in harsh times with a government downplaying the role of scientists
@ProCienciaMx
@red_mpc
@Conacyt_MX
#SiSePuede
#Infograf
ía| A partir de perfiles genéticos se obtiene un mapa de coordenadas de todos los
#cromosomas
, así es posible capturar la huella de los
#ancestros
de cada persona.
For those who haven’t heard yet,
#SMBE2024
is going to be held in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico! I’m tempted to start packing now. I mean, somebody has to go check it out, right?
@OfficialSMBE
#SMBEv2021
Our paper on Native American exomes is out! Includes demographic model for pops within Mexico and candidate genes underlying pop-specific differentiation. Congrats to
@paleogenomics
for taking the lead and the team for crucial contributions!
@LIIGH_UNAM
@langebiomx
@StanfordCEHG
Not only a beautiful cover but also a game changing moment to have Mexican Genomics highlighted in the cover of
@Nature
as it brings the spotlight to Latin America and the Global South towards a more inclusive and locally led research in underrepresented regions of the world 🌎✊
Brand new Sequel instrument from
@PacBio
ready to be installed at
@langebiomx
to sequence Mexican crop genomes and provide long-read seq services for the 1st time in Mexico! Effort led by
@cinvestav
Prof. Alfredo Herrera & sponsored by
@SAGARPA_mx
This is one of the coolest results from the
@moreno_lab
and it's out today! We found Southeast Asian ancestry from Indonesia and the Philippines in Mexico consistent with the activity of the Manila Galleon 390 years ago.
Honored to be at the very home of human genome research
@genome_gov
! Hopefully soon this home will also support the diversification of genomes studied outside the US. An H3-like program in Latin America is timely and needed to scale efforts up!
@LatinGenomes
@ICDAbio
@NIMHD
When you run a genomics core facility in a developing country your No.1 fear is "will there be enough users in the region to keep up with technology updates and justify the huge investment on equipment?" Here's an example from Mexico
@langebiomx
@labsergen
@cinvestav
1/6
Who is Latin American, has experience in human GWAS, and wants to help/lead a multi-trait GWAS on Latin American populations? physical relocation to
@moreno_lab
in 🇲🇽 is preferred but compensated remote work is also a possibility. DM if interested! Thanks!
#GWAS
@LatinGenomes
New Research: Imputation Performance in Latin American Populations: Improving Rare Variants Representation With the Inclusion of Native American Genomes: Current Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) rely on genotype imputation to increase…
#Genetics
We cite Heyerdahl, along with others, but we do not support his broad theory. We describe 2 possibilities: Native Americans, whose coastal voyaging is little appreciated, but did exist, drifted west, or Polynesians, whose voyaging prowess we describe, sailed east & returned. 4/5
Best birthday present ever: my students surprised me with a cake with the
@moreno_lab
logo! 🎂 Really grateful for the support from everyone in the lab and the family! ❤️
Científicos nacionales y extranjeros obtuvieron el mapa genómico más completo de los mexicanos y publicaron el estudio en la revista
@Nature
. Sobre el tema nos habla el Dr. Andrés Moreno Estrada (
@morestrada
), autor corresponsal del artículo, en
#ElFinancieroTV
con
@JimenezLandin
Happy to be back at Stanford and bike around campus again! Will be on sabbatical reconnecting with friends and collaborators of the
@moreno_lab
. Looking forward to it!
En Español: El Biobanco mexicano captura la diversidad genética y la variación de rasgos biomédicos a nivel nacional, reflejado en un colorido mapa inspirado en el arte indígena huichol, donde las hebras de ADN conectan diversas regiones a lo largo de todo México y más allá.
Random notes from my 7yr old daughter while listening me taking interviews at home about our recent paper. Some tech stuff she got right! (eg., “fragments of Polynesian chromosomes”😲), and I just loved her depiction of Moais in Rapa Nui🗿
#ScienceDuringLockdown
#homeschooling
Really nice piece by
@lizzie_wade
from
@sciencemagazine
on Latin America’s lost histories. It’s amazing how genetics can help uncover what politics and colonialism tried to hide and homogenize...
Dr. Antonio Lazcano (center) is one of the most prominent Mexican biologists ever, it was such an honor and so enjoyable to share a symposium on genes & languages together with
@paleogenomics
and
@FSanchezQuinto
at
@ColegioNal_mx
in Mexico City. Thank you!
Proud to be leading the only funded proposal (1 out of 16 awards) where the coordinating institution (
@cinvestav
, Mexico) is outside the
#GlobalNorth
. Such a big opportunity for Latin America! Our team is 100% Latinx and ready to go! 🇲🇽🇧🇷🇨🇱🇵🇪🇨🇴🇺🇸
People of European ancestry account for about 16% of the world’s population yet 80% of participants in genetic studies of disease.
@cziscience
is supporting 16 teams of researchers to help make the
@humancellatlas
more representative of the world:
No more lab retreats during the pandemic? No! Just get masked and meet in outdoor amazing places! Mexico is fantastic, Mexico is great science 🧬 honored to see the lab growing & succeeding!
@moreno_lab
retreat 2021
Stellar postdoc
@mitoPR
saying goodbye to the
@moreno_lab
in her last seminar
@langebiomx
. So sad to see her leaving but happy for her successful future ahead in her new job position. So grateful for your contributions to build our lab. Thank you Maria!
new collaborative initiative is born: "Latin American Alliance for Genomic Diversity" is set to respond to
@ICDAbio
recommendations of increasing diversity of biobanks. Stay tuned for more here: . Registration is open and free! 🇨🇱🇲🇽🇦🇷🇧🇷🇵🇪🇺🇾🇺🇸 and more!
1/2 In this new paper we opted for Nature's open policy of reviews so they are publicly available! Honored to have had multi-disciplinary experts as referees like
@benmpeter
(Psi statistic pioneer) and Patrick Kirch (renowned archaeologist)
¡Qué divertido y qué honor aparecer en la Lotería Mexicana de fin de año en este intenso 2023! Gracias
@EjeCentral
por resumir los acontecimientos del año y preservar las tradiciones mexicanas como el juego de la lotería. Faltó
@SChecoPerez
!
@red_mpc
From the start, we sought engagement with the Rapanui community and the indigenous American communities sampled in this study; we returned to Rapa Nui to personally give participants results before publishing 2/5
We have moved!
@moreno_lab
is now sharing lab space with the amazing
@SelFdz
and enjoying new panoramic views of
@langebiomx
. Proud and honored to have a great team and wishing everyone a happy winter break!! 🎄 🪅
Full Caption & Credit: The MX Biobank captures Mexico's genetic diversity and trait variation nationwide. DNA strands connect diverse ancestries, reflecting the intricate threads that bind us across Mexico and beyond. Credit: Mauricio Guzmán Araiza, Altamira studio. 🇲🇽
I will have one, probably two, postdoc positions open in my lab
@moreno_lab
,
@uga_langebio
, Mexico. Flexible starting window, Oct 2022 or Jan 2023. Projects range from popgen in Latam and the Pacific to medical genomics and biobank data. Please RT and send me a DM if interested!
Our work was reviewed by an experienced archeologist, acknowledged in Nature's peer review information, and we reflected possible views from multiple disciplines to contextualize our genetic evidence, which cannot itself determine who undertook the voyage. 5/5
Mañana se cumplen NUEVE meses de haber solicitado prórroga de proyecto (sin costo) a
@Conacyt_MX
y seguimos sin recibir respuesta. Fondos sin ejercer están congelados y la falta de luz verde pone en riesgo compromisos internacionales con
@UniofOxford
y
@NewtonFund
.
@ProCienciaMx
2/3) Los ciencia debería ser prioridad ante una pandemia y los científicos esperaríamos mecanismos ágiles de
@Conacyt_MX
para continuar nuestro trabajo. Llevo 8 meses (OCHO) esperando respuesta a solicitud de prórroga para proyecto sobre la genética de enfermedades infecciosas.
📢Two-year postdoctoral position available immediately at
@moreno_lab
@uga_langebio
Mexico. Salary above national fellowship avg plus employee benefits (a rare find!) Interested in human genomics on LatAm pops? Send cover letter & CV before Feb 15: morenolab.langebio
@gmail
.com 🙏
Two highlights I'm really proud about this project: 1) Local leadership was ensured through all research stages (including community engagement, sampling, data generation, data analysis, and publishing), so lots of training occurred along the way;
@LatinGenomes
@ICDAbio
.
This is why I enjoy working
@langebiomx
, as human geneticist I may know nothing about avocados 🥑, but in campus we speak a common language about the evolutionary history of multiple species, all part of 🇲🇽
#biodiversity
. Today Mexico-led Intl. team published the avocado genome!
Check out
@mashaals
for a detailed 🧵on our findings and the piece by
@rpocisv
from
@NewsfromScience
covering our work. This is just the first characterization of a small subset of the MX Biobank, its potential for future discoveries is huge!
@RegeneronDNA
Exciting to be representing Latin America together with
@raverdugos
at the ICDA Scientific Plenary 2022! 🇲🇽🇨🇱 Amazing to share science ideas and fun moments with the
@ICDAbio
community in person!
#icdabio2022
Thanks
@novonordiskfond
for hosting us! 🇩🇰
incredibly proud of the technicians from
@labsergen
at
@langebiomx
who completed
@illumina
genotyping of 6000+ samples with only 10 failing! This is MX biobank (
#MXB
) project’s batch 1 fully completed in
#Mexico
by female team, supporting local capacity building &
#WomeninSTEM
!
We built a high-resolution genetic picture of Mexico with 1.8M SNPs from >6k individuals across ~900 localities nationwide, unraveling demographic histories over time and complex trait architecture from health, demographic, and biochemical data from the MX Biobank.
Our team included an anthropologist (3rd author) having deep experience with indigenous communities, as well as scientists from many of the countries sampled in this study. We tried to cite a breadth of archaeologists and anthropologists (18 refs). 3/5
We are hiring! The
#MXBiobank
project is seeking a bioinformatician to work with genomic datasets from diverse human populations across Mexico. Please RT! Thanks!
This phone call just recorded a historical moment for the popgen field! Hopefully inspirational for many young generations and eye opening for funding agencies and governments about the relevance of human evolutionary genetics! 🧬
#NobelPrize
“The last 40 thousand years is quite unique in human history, in that we are the only form of humans around.”
Take a listen to our interview with 2022 medicine laureate Svante Pääbo who reflects on our relationship to extinct species of early hominins.
Listen here:
Una vergüenza el (poco) apoyo de
@AMEXCID
en un proyecto de cooperación Sur-Sur con 🇨🇴 para el estudio del genoma humano. Instructores de 🇲🇽 que viajaron a 🇨🇴 para entrenar a estudiantes tuvieron que costear sus propios gastos y a 3 meses siguen sin recibir reembolso de viáticos.
Adding some important information in hand writing to ID tag before my talk at the
@jacksonlab
!! Representing
@cinvestav
🇲🇽 at the 63rd McKusick course in genetics and genomics! 🧬
@FulbrightPrgrm
@Comexus
Back in the lab after incredibly engaging fieldwork in Chile 🇨🇱 to enjoy a renovated look of our workspace! 🧬 So privileged to team up with an amazing group of scientists!
@moreno_lab
stronger than ever 👊🏼🤙🏽🗿next stop: fieldwork in Mayan territory!🇲🇽
@LatinCells
#tooMuchGoingOn
.
@morestrada
says
#ICDAbio
is about “providing the opportunity for building local capacity across different regions where local knowledge is key to deliver on the knowledge needed to benefit different populations around the world and close the gap in health disparities.”
¡FELICIDADES! Hace 20 años no había muchas opciones para formarse en ciencias genómicas en México. Hoy los estudiantes tienen mas y mejores ofertas gracias a este exitoso programa y buena parte de la genómica en México lleva sangre puma de la
@lcgunam
. ¡Por muchos años mas! 🥂
🧬¡CELEBRAMOS 20 AÑOS DE LA LICENCIATURA EN CIENCIAS GENÓMICAS🧬
Felicitamos a todas y todos los alumnos, egresados y comunidad LCG.
Que nuestros telómeros no se acorten y tengamos muchos años más.
Les compartimos la nota en la Gaceta UNAM:
Dear international cols. & funders, I may no longer be able to meet our planned (and funded) scientific meetings bc our president will now review & authorize each intl. travel himself! This is outrageous & will bottleneck MX science
@cinvestav
@jmustre
@NewtonFund
@lopezobrador_
In times when underrepresented populations need a voice in Population Genomics, here's a nice piece by
@NatureComms
Celebrating National DNA Day:
#behindthepaper
Contrasting support for science: My co-PI in the UK is offered an extension to continue our joint MX biobank project. In contrast, FIVE months ago I asked for a COVID-related extension to
@Conacyt_MX
but due to admin and gov issues in 🇲🇽 there is no one that can give an answer!
honored to be part of this landmark paper on how the study of diverse populations is improving genomic research! congrats to
@genandgenes
@EimearEKenny
@popgenepi
and the PAGE consortium!
Estoy en una cumbre mundial sobre genética
#ICDAbio
y por primera vez que estoy en el extranjero la noticia que da México no es la violencia, sino los desencuentros del
@Conacyt_MX
con la comunidad científica. Vaya imágen que está dando el pais.
#HowDareYou
@langebiomx
@labsergen
@cinvestav
@illumina
@PacBio
If big corporations like
@illumina
keep measuring all world regions with the same lens without subsidizing technology cost in coordination with local distributors and governments, research progress will be halted for years dramatically 6/6
#mexpopgen
is becoming a classic meeting of top level quality to share ideas and popgen initiatives across the Americas. This year we had presenters from 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇨🇴 🇨🇱 and topics ranging from viruses, 🌱🌽🌲🦎 🐢🐓🐋🗿🧘🏽♂️🧘🏽♀️and more! Thank you all!!
Nota en Español sobre nuestro proyecto financiado por
@cziscience
para contribuir desde Latinoamerica al proyecto mundial del Atlas Celular Humano 🌎 👉🏼 Felicitaciones a todo el grupo de colaboradores! 📸 👇🏼 🇲🇽 🇧🇷 🇵🇪 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇺🇸
Obtiene
@cinvestav
apoyo de
@ChanZuckerberg
para encabezar proyecto latinoamericano que busca recabar información molecular a nivel de
#c
élulas individuales en diferentes poblaciones.
Back from sabbatical and straight to the beach for the Moreno Lab retreat!
@moreno_lab
🇲🇽🌴 Discussing great scientific ideas with an amazing group of students, postdocs, staff, and our invited speaker
@alexGioannidis
. Thank you all!
Fascinante historia! El legado de las migraciones asiáticas en México es mayor de lo que se piensa y cada vez hay más evidencia de su importancia en la diversidad actual de la población. Aquí una perspectiva genética:
En 1911, Wei Zhu, migrante cantonés piso territorio zapoteca por primera vez.
Dejó en esta tierra una familia binnizá y migrante.
Este es su legado.
En el pueblo nos conocen cómo "los chinos", pero aquí tenemos sembrado el ombligo
Staring at the alignment of Jupiter and Saturn 🪐 from the Mexican Pacific coast during Xmas holidays! Hoping 2021 will be a better year and we’ll be stronger to stay standing.