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The Lab News
2024
21
FEB
Lorena Aguilar attended to the Metabolism Network Kickoff Meeting at the CZI headquarters, Redwood City, Ca.
This marks the beginnig of a new and exciting project to develop in the framework of the CZI Measuring Metabolism Across Scales award, in collaboration with Chiara Strigari.
2023
Proud of the MSc students in the lab, Muaricio Basulto Almeida, Roberto López Valiente and Alejandro Alarcón del Carmen, who graduated during this year. Congrats!!
1
NOV
Congratulation to Lucía Mendoza Viveros, for her new position as an independent researcher at the IPICYT - San Luis Postosí.
We will truly miss her. GOOD LUCK AND SUCCESS IN YOUR NEW VENTURE, LUCIA!!
1
SEPT
We welcome Miguel Olmedo Suarez to the lab!!
CONGRATUALTIONS to Miguel for his DGAPA-UNAM Postdoctoral fellowship!
2022
14
OCT
Time to celebrate!!
First lab dinner after two very long and complicated years, it´s time to celebrate graduations, PhD candidatures and publications. Pizza time!!
Congrats to Quetzalcoatl Escalante Covarrubias for his successful defense of his PhD thesis!
09
SEPT
We are very happy and proud of this achievement, Quetzal graduating with honors after all this huge effort, with the pandemic situation and all the adversities, it´s finally done. GOOD LUCK QUETZAL FOR THE NEXT STEPS IN YOUR CAREER!!
Congrats to Román Sitten Olea for his successful defense of his BS thesis!
05
APR
2021
We welcome Alejandro Alarcón and Roberto López to the lab!!
01
AUG
Alejandro and Roberto will pursue their MSc degree. Alex will gather a analyze scRNA-seq data from hESC cell and define developmental trajectories in gene expression to neural progenitors, while Roberto will continue our research on the impact of NAD+ on the circadian machinery in the brain. WELCOME!!!
Welcome Iraiz Núñez Olvera and Mauricio Basulto Almeida, to the lab!
01
FEB
Iraiz will develop a new project in collaboration with Dr. César López Camarillo at UACM, in the framework of a new Ciencia de Frontera grant, to decipher regulatory roles of lncRNAs on chromatin form breast cancer cells. Mauricio will join the Ciencia de Frontera project awarded in collaboration with Dr. Mayra Furlan laboratory at IFC-UNAM.
2020
We have been awarded a CONACYT-Ciencia de Frontera 2019 grant!!.
30
SEPT
This collaborative research between the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas and the Instituto de Fisología Celular will allow us to explore regulatory elements in the genome epigenetically driving nutritional responses. We thank CONACyT and the reviewers for this exciting opportunity!!
We welcome Román Sitten and Luis Hernández to the lab!!
30
AUG
Even through we are still under closures due to COVID19 pandemic, we keep recruiting students and working from home. Roman is a rotation student from University of Guadalajara, with strong interest in circadian rhythms, metabolism and exercise. Luis is starting his PhD uncovering new and exciting molecular connections between the circadian machinery and breast cancer. WELCOME!!!
23
MAR
Our lab has closed down temporarily to keep all the members safe from the
COVID19 threat.
13
MAR
Our review is out! a collaborative effort with the Chronobiology and Metabolism laboratory at the INMEGEN.
Circadian Regulation of Immunity Through Epigenetic Mechanisms
Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol., 13 March 2020
01
FEB
We welcome Mirna González to the lab!
Mirna is a PhD student in the Graduate Program Ciencias Biomédicas at UNAM.. She is interested in epigenetic regulation of circadian gene expression through histone methylation
08
ENE
Lorena Aguilar-Arnal has been appointed member in the Editorial Board of
Clinical Epigenetics
Clinical Epigenetics is a top tier, open access journal devoted to the study of epigenetic principles and mechanisms as applied to human development, disease, diagnosis and treatment. See more:
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09
DIC
Congrats to Ximena del Toro and Pablo A. Rojas for their successful defense of their MSc thesis! Lots of luck for the next step in your career!
22
NOV
Congrats to Paola Mass Sánchez for her successful defense of her MSc thesis! We will miss her in the lab!
