I recently gave a remote seminar presentation for the Applications of Genomics 2024-2025 course organized by Esperanza Martínez Romero and Alejandra Zayas Del Moral. The idea was to talk about my career and showcase some recent research work from my team.
Would you prefer a video walkthrough over reading this blog post? Check out this explainer video 🎥 A few years ago now (2021) we published a study we refer to with a very generic name: HumanPilot (Maynard, Collado-Torres, Weber, Uytingco et al.
This work was done by Leo with Erik Nelson and Ryan Miller. Thank you for your time and input! Oh ohh! My GitHub repository is huge! 😱 What do I do now?
I’m excited for the opportunity to participate at the #CZILatAmMtg in 2023 organized by CZI Science. I’m also thankful to those who nominated me, and in particular to Alejandra Medina Rivera.
Yesterday there was a controversy because the Mexican Women’s softball team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (Wikipedia, Instagram) threw several uniforms and equipment to the trash (source: ESPN). Right now I’m really disappointed with the negative reaction and personal attacks against the members of said team.
Today was an unusual day at work given the US Elections. This meant that I had fewer meetings than what I’ve had lately. Earlier in the day I noticed an email announcing that the Bioconductor 3.
Today I have accepted a new role at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD) as an Investigator. Since LIBD is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University (JHU), LIBD will support me on becoming a JHU faculty member ^[The rules are Department and School specific at JHU, which is something that I have yet to explore in detail.
Oh ohh! 😱 What do you do now? The data me and my colleagues work with is typically too big for our personal computers, so we use a high performance computing environment (cluster) and mostly interact with it through the command line terminal.
After a long start to 2020 including the past four very busy weeks, I’m happy to announce that today March 16th 2020 I accepted a position as Research Scientist at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development in Baltimore, MD, USA.
Yesterday was an extremely exciting day for me and my colleagues. We finished a project we had been working on and shared it with the world. Meaning, it’s done and we can relax for a little bit while we wait for feedback from our peers.