Ph.D student, Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Mexico City, Mexico

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Currently working on: research into the immune system of bats.

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My STEM story: I have been working in the evolution of the adaptive immune system in mammals for the last 4 years. During my masters I studied the variation of the MHC-II in blue whales from Baja California, Mexico. Now, for my PhD I am studying the transcripts of the MHC-I and the T cell receptors in five families of Bats from Yucatan. This is a huge challenge for me because for the first time I am learning and doing computing analysis.

A great experience for me was the first time I went to an international meeting and presented my thesis advances. I got many questions and I met a lot of researchers that were interested in my results and shared with me their knowledge and experience. That was the day I realized I wanted to do for the rest of my life.