This week, undergrad student in the lab Aldair Hernandez presented with great success his Thesis project to obtain his BSc degree in Biochemical Diagnostics! Wonderful and rewarding to see students grow personally and academically and achieve these important milestones! #ProudPI

La #LCG presente en el Foro Internacional de la Red Global de Educación y Entrenamiento en Genómica #GGNET que se lleva a cabo en Bogotá, Colombia. La Coordinadora de @cgonzagaj.bsky.social investigadora @liigh-unam.bsky.social presentó la experiencia de 23 años de educación en #Genomica en México.

Starting now our last session of Genomics of Rare Disease #GRD26 @eventswcs.bsky.social on Therapeutics for #RareDiseases with Haiyan Zhou discussing "Nucleic Acid Therapies for RDs, Progress and Prospects in the UK" with examples for SMN and Hereditary neuropathy.

Last day of Genomics of Rare Disease #GRD26 conference starting now with the Lupski Lecture delivered this year by @WendyKChung talking about genomic newborn screening #gNBS through the GUARDIAN study to identify genetic disorders early at birth.

Session 5 of "What's New in Rare Disease?!" Part 2 starting now with super talk from Zané Lombard from University of Witwatersrand, South Africa talk about the need for genomic diagnostics in Africa and the work of the Africa DDD project. #GRD26

Fourth session at Genomics of #RareDisease conference #GRD26 on What's New in Rare Disease?! (Part 1) starting now with @dgmacarthur.bsky.social presenting on Integrating AI tools into rare disease diagnosis and reanalysis.

Good morning and we're ready to start the 3rd scientific session of this year's Genomics of Rare Disease #GRD26 conference @eventswcs.bsky.social with Factors affecting penetrance. First speaker is Henry Lee-Six @sangerinstitute.bsky.social speaking on Somatic mutations of NF1 in normal tissues.

Second session of #GRD26 @eventswcs.bsky.social starting now with invited speaker @hcmefford talking about "Multi-omics for gene discovery and precision medicine in pediatric epilepsies" through epigenomic and transcriptomic analyses of exome/genome negative epilepsy patients.

First session on NIPT, Prenatal, Perinatal research and diagnosis of #RareDiseases starting with Mike Talkowski talking about the Future of Prenatal Diagnostics #GRD26 @eventswcs.bsky.social

We're ready to kick off this year's Genomics of Rare Disease 20th Conference #GRD26 @eventsWCS with an amazing scientific program, celebrating 20 years of #RareDiseases research, discoveries, and advancements from genomic disorders to large scale and latest generation sequencing!

I'm super happy and excited to share that I've been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure at @liigh-unam.bsky.social UNAM! Onwards to more years of human genetics and genomics research and to making genomics more equitable for everyone!!! 🤩🧬

I don't think it looks like me but that's what ChatGPT gave me. Celebrating Women and girls in science today!!! May we have many more girls go into science careers and women breaking glass ceilings everywhere! #11F 🧬🥼🧫🔬👩‍🔬 #Genetics #Genomics #WomenInSTEM

El estudio sobre enfermedades raras por parte del laboratorio de la @cgonzagaj.bsky.social continúa. La Lic. Tania Sepúlveda-Morales nos compartió acerca del síndrome de Weiss-Kruszka. Y el Dr. José Luis Téllez-Arreola nos habla del modelado de enfermedades del neurodesarrollo en C. elgans

Empezamos con las presentaciones del Laboratorio de Genómica Mendeliana y Salud de Precisión liderado por la Dra. Claudia Gonzaga-Jáuregui @cgonzagaj.bsky.social. El alumno Aldair Hernández presentó su proyecto de tesis, estimando la prevalencia de la deficiencia de G6PD.

Our Mendelian Genomics & Precision Health Laboratory @liigh-unam.bsky.social will be presenting three scientific talks on Thursday and 5 posters on Friday during this year's #LIIGH Academic Event 2026, all presented by students and trainees in our group! #DiasAcademicosLIIGH #ProudPI

Comenzamos con los Días Académicos 2026!! Gracias por la bienvenida dada por la Dra. Daniela Robles @daniela-oaks.bsky.social. Esperemos sea un evento muy enriquecedor para toda la comunidad del LIIGH.

¡¡Mañana comienzan los Días Académicos!!. El primer día escucharemos 11 ponencias y 18 pósters de los laboratorios de Genómica Mendeliana y Salud de Precisión, Genómica Regulatoria y Bioinformática, Biología Evolutiva de Sistemas, Genética del Cáncer y Paleogenómica. Nos vemos mañana.

¡Estamos muy emocionados porque la próxima semana tendremos la 3ra edición de los #DíasAcadémicosLIIGH2026 donde estudiantes de licenciatura, posgrado y postdocs estarán presentando el trabajo que realizan en @LIIGH_UNAM a través de 59 presentaciones orales y pósters!!!

Last but not least! We are now listening to Alda Hernandez, from @cgonzagaj.bsky.social's lab @liigh-unam.bsky.social, who is telling us about his project on G6PD deficiency in the Mexican population 🇲🇽 #LIIGHColloquium2025

The third talk of the Medical Genomics session #LIIGHColloquium2025 is being given by @cgonzagaj.bsky.social, PI at the Mendelian Genomics & Precision Health at @liigh-unam.bsky.social, and is on the landscape of rare diseases in Mexico 🇲🇽 and LatAm @liigh-unam.bsky.social

I am excited to announce that I will be speaking at the 4th Public Policy Projects Genomics Conference tomorrow! The conference will focus on how #genomics research can be used as a driver of economic growth and how we can achieve this equitably in healthcare settings worldwide.

Today I will be chatting with the amazing Catalina López Correa about #RareDiseases and #Genomics in #LatinAmerica 📅 Join us today at 6pm Mexico, 7pm Colombia!

It's been a great week listening to great talks, catching up with Latin American colleagues, having insightful conversations about the present & future of Genetics, Medical Genomics & Precision Medicine in Mexico, and enjoying the beautiful weather during the 50th National Congress of Human Genetics

Happy Halloween and Día de Muertos season from the Mendelian Genomics and Precision Health Lab @liigh-unam.bsky.social !!!

Deeply honored and grateful to have received the Reconocimiento Distinción Universidad Nacional para Jóvenes Académicos (RDUNJA) for research in the Natural Sciences 2025. This prestigious distinction is awarded to young investigators by UNAM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico. #Genomics

"...researchers who invest time in their students tend to lead more-productive, more-collaborative groups and attract stronger future students than those who do not." "Time spent with the next generation of scientists is an investment." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

And it's a wrap for #ASHG25!!! 🤩 Great talks, discussion, and insights! My personal takeaways and thoughts: - Everyone is VERY interested but still unclear on how AI can help us do better science from research, finding new genes, drug targets, predict outcomes, and publishing 🧵

Last Plenary Session of #ASHG25 starting with the Distinguished Speaker Symposium on the topic of AI-Powered Genomics: Transforming Data into Insights.

What we discovered during the #ASHG25 Featured Plenary Abstract Session III—the complexity of the human genome can be studied through many innovative approaches/tools, and there’s a need for more globally representative genomes and cohorts. #ASHG

Starting the Third Plenary session #ASHG25 with Lingbin Ni from the Eichler Lab at University of Washington presenting Haplotype-resolved chromatin differences and structural variation using 177 Human Pangenome Reference Consortium samples finding haplotype-specific HiC contacts.

Erica Vaccari presenting results from work on analyzing reimbursement of germline genetic testing and how it is impacted by socioeconomic characteristics and type of insurance. Hispanics and people with Medicaid were less likely to be reimbursed for genetic testing #ASHG25

Second Featured Abstract Plenary Session of #ASHG25 starting with Antonio Adamo presenting on studies in his lab of supernumerario X chromosome aneuploidy using brain organoids showing that increased X chromosome dosage leads to neuronal impairment and electrophysiological abnormalities.

ASHG Plenary Session starting with the awards ceremony honoring Eric Green with the Leadership Award of @geneticssociety.bsky.social reflecting on his career in human genetics & genomics leading the Human Genome Project & the NHGRI and the leadership principles he has learned throughout #ASHG25

Now the Presidential Symposium starting with introduction by @geneticssociety.bsky.social President Sarah Tishkoff and four excellent speakers that will talk about "Unraveling the Genetic Foundations of Human Disease: Insights from the Past, Present, and Future" #ASHG25

Always fun to catch up with #LCG_UNAM alumni and see where life has taken each of us and what exciting science everyone is doing! Generations 1, 2, 5, 12 & 13 present at #ASHG25 #ASHG2025 @lcgej.bsky.social

Starting the Plenary Session of today with the awards ceremony honoring Carole Ober with the Mentorship Award and Hal Dietz with the Lifetime Achievement Award of @geneticssociety.bsky.social #ASHG25 #ASHG2025

Welcome to #ASHG25! As our President Sarah Tishkoff just noted, next year for the first time the ASHG exec cmte will be all women. Glad to have anyone and everyone participating in this society now and in the future.

First Plenary Abstract Session of #ASHG25 starting with Srikar Gopinath from Yale describing their study characterizing >1M variants in the 5' UTR regions to assess their functional effects on gene translation and develop a prediction algorithm to evaluate non-coding UTR variation.

Full room as we kick off #ASHG25 with welcoming remarks by @geneticssociety.bsky.social president Sarah Tishkoff talking about the need to make human genetics & genomics to populations everywhere. "We are stronger when we stand together" #ASHG2025

Arrived in Boston for the genetics event of the year #ASHG2025! Brushing up on my genetics at the Museum of Science in preparation for a week full of genetics & genomics excitement! @geneticssociety.bsky.social

Happy to be this weekend at the International Porphyrias Symposium 2025 as a Keynote speaker talking about our efforts to improve awareness and molecular diagnostics of #RareDiseases in Latin America and the Caribbean through the #CEPCAL collaborative.

New semester, new bluesky account! We start this new semester at UNAM welcoming new and current students of the Genomic Sciences Undergraduate Program at UNAM in Juriquilla!

The last talk of this block is being given by Valeria G. Vela, also working with @cgonzagaj.bsky.social, and she is talking about hemoglobinopathies in the Mexican population #LCGUNAM @liigh-unam.bsky.social

We are now listening from @arianasilva.bsky.social, who is working with @cgonzagaj.bsky.social, talk about SMARCA5 variants and their association with a novel neurodevelopmental disorder #LCGUNAM @liigh-unam.bsky.social

#ProudPI today after students Valeria Vela and Ariana Silva of our Mendelian Genomics & Precision Health Laboratory @liigh-unam.bsky.social presented the projects that they'll be working on during their 4th year of research in the Genomic Sciences Undergraduate Program!!!

Wow! Such sad intervention from Mexico at this year's World Health Assembly using this global forum for health to advertise IMSS Bienestar instead of actually committing to improving healthcare in Mexico & supporting important initiatives like the #RareDiseases #Resolution4Rare

Excited to be attending this week the 2nd Spanish Congress of Genomic Medicine at Universidad Nebrija in Madrid, Spain! I'll be participating in a session and panel about the advances, barriers and challenges of implementing genomics for Precision Medicine in Latin America.

Super excited and proud to share the publication of our article @pnas.org reporting a rare missense variant in GPR156 associated with Depression. Although an orphan GPCR with no known binding partners, GPR156 is expressed in the meedial habenula, a region known to be involved in mood regulation...

Happy to share the publication of our recent article describing differences in alleles & frequencies for pathogenic & likely pathogenic variants in genes associated with monogenic #Parkinson disease across different ancestries. About 15% of PD cases are considered monogenic. (1/2)