Principal Investigator

Andrés Moreno Estrada

Andrés Moreno Estrada

I am a medical doctor and population geneticist whose work integrates genomics, evolution, and precision medicine. Our group focuses on human evolution, adaptation, and population history, alongside the biomedical implications of genetic diversity in underserved populations across the Americas and the Pacific.

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Laboratory Manager

Flor Montes de Oca

Flor Montes de Oca

I am the Lab Manager at the Moreno Lab, overseeing coordination and day-to-day operations to ensure smooth research development. I hold a Master’s degree in Human Rights and bring over 20 years of project management and institutional coordination experience across government and international organizations.

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Edder Daniel Bustos Diaz

I manage the lab's IT infrastructure, the Kexol HPC cluster, and sequencing experiments. My current work focuses on data management and assemblies for the Latin Pangenome project.

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José Antonio Corona-Gomez (Josian)

I am a bioinformatician leading Bioinformatics Research for LatinCells. I analyze single-cell RNA sequencing data to study how Native American ancestry influences immune cell composition and gene expression patterns in Latin American communities.

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Diego Hartasánchez

I am a physicist turned evolutionary biologist focused on modeling evolutionary phenomena and analyzing comparative genomic data. My work contributes to understanding the evolutionary history and diversity of Latin American populations.

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Marisol Naydú Espitia Fajardo

I am a biologist specializing in the genetic diversity and population structure of indigenous communities. I develop and apply high-resolution bioinformatics tools to perform demographic inference and whole-genome analysis for underrepresented populations.

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Consuelo Dayzú Quinto Cortés

I am a human population genomicist and the project manager for the Wellcome Trust-funded Latin American Pangenome project, which maps structural variation of medical relevance in underrepresented indigenous ancestries.

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Camila Tamburrini

I am a bioanthropologist interested in the intersection of ancient DNA research and forensic genetics. My research focuses on investigating genetic variation among ancient hunter-gatherer populations from Patagonia.

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PhD Students

Carmina Barberena-Jonas

I analyze identity-by-descent genomic segments to determine Mexico's population structure and its biomedical implications. I am also developing the MexVar tool to explore biomedical data from the Mexican BioBank (MXB).

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Maria Fernanda Elias Navarro

My research integrates paleogenomics and archaeology to explore the histories of past populations. I specifically focus on ancient DNA recovered from skeletal remains at Teotihuacan to understand social organization and diversity.

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Aarón E. Jaime

I am interested in computational human genomics. My current research uses long-read sequencing kinetics to describe novel ageing-associated DNA methylation patterns in Latin American populations for the LatinGenomes project.

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Ram González Buenfil

I am a computational biologist working at the intersection of population genomics and evolutionary theory. My research investigates how natural selection, admixture, and local adaptation have shaped populations in Latin America and Oceania.

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Santiago Medina

I am a computational biologist focused on evolutionary genetics. My research aims to understand population history and migration dynamics in Indigenous populations from Mexico.

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Daniela Orozco

My ancient DNA research focuses on the genetic history of elite individuals buried at the Cañada de la Virgen archaeological site in Mexico. I specialize in turning complex data into clear stories through maps and data visualization.

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Octavio Zambada Moreno

I am a genomic biotechnologist characterizing immune cell variation in Indigenous Latin American populations. I combine single-cell transcriptomics, population genomics, and computational modeling to see how genetic background influences immune responses.

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Masters Students

Yuberlis González Ipuana

I am a Wayuu indigenous biologist from Colombia. My work focuses on population genetics and the study of diversity and genetic kinship among indigenous peoples of Colombia to help recognize our biological and cultural diversity.

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Ricardo Rodríguez Ojeda

I specialize in computational biology and human population genomics. I analyze genomic data to explore demographic history and the genetic impact of colonization and admixture processes in modern Mexican populations.

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Data Scientist

Viankail Cedillo Castelán

I am a data scientist focused on biomedical data visualization and UX-oriented design. I develop interactive Shiny applications and AI-powered virtual assistants to translate complex population-genetic data into accessible tools for researchers and clinicians.

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