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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · 12h

Also, special shoutout to all the undergrad and high school students that presented their research in the poster sessions! It’s so inspiring to see the passion for science in younger students 🫶🏽

Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · 12h

I’m very thankful with Dr. Karla Rubio and Dra. María Bringas for the invite and the incredible experience. I’m really excited to connect with the exposome community in my home country, and I’m looking forward to see this relevant field grow 🙌🏽 #EnviroEpiHealthMX

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · 12h

Finally, at the conference I talked about my research developing methods to do so, particularly in the context of estimating genome-wide gene-environment interactions in DNA methylation👨🏽‍💻

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · 12h

During the pre-congress workshop, I talked about gene-environment interactions, their relevance in precision medicine, and the challenges of studying them in the postgenomic era. I highlighted promising technologies that are allowing us to study this phenomenon in omic data sets

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · 12h

Last week I was invited as a keynote speaker to the 2nd International Congress EnviroEpiHealth at Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla. I had an amazing time learning about all the incredibly meaningful exposome research that is conducted in the region to address health issues 🧬🌎.

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · 27d

¿Así naces o te haces? 🤔
Muy emocionado de estar la próxima semana en el club de lectura del ISCB Student Council RSG Mexico hablando de la influencia de la genética y el ambiente en la epigenética humana 🧬☀️
El registro es libre 👇🏽

Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · Jul 19

I’m very thankful to all the organizers for making this possible and for giving young people access to FREE cutting-edge science. Thank you for letting me join your scientific revolution. And thank you for sharing your week with me, future scientists 🫶🏽.

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · Jul 19

It was amazing to share my journey with so many younger people, help them in their next steps, and inspire them to follow their scientific dreams ⭐️.

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · Jul 19

The rest of the students participated in one of the other 8 workshops offered, and learnt incredible stuff from young researchers from Oxford, UNAM, NASA, INAOE, Stanford, UAEM and UdeM. From engineering their own robots 🤖, to transforming their own bacteria 🦠, and studying the galaxies 🌌.

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · Jul 19

I’m really proud of the students in my workshop, they assimilated very complex concepts in just a week! Not only the biology of aging, but coding too, and creating their first machine learning model! 👨🏽‍💻👩🏽‍💻

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · Jul 19

Me and my students spent an amazing week learning about epigenetics, aging, and machine learning 🤓. By the end of the workshop, we trained 3 epigenetic clocks, and calculated the epigenetic accelerated aging in cancer samples! 🧬

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · Jul 19

Last week I was honored to be an instructor at Clubes de Ciencia México and spend my week with incredibly talented scientists and young Mexicans.

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · Jul 4

I’m really excited and honored to be part of this new cohort of @ropensci.org Champions! 🙌🏽

Looking forward to improve my skills as a software developer, contribute to the open science community, and connect with amazing Latin American leaders in research software engineering 👨🏽‍💻

rOpenSci @ropensci.org · Jul 4

📝 [Blog Post] Open Science with a Latin American Identity: Meet the New Cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program

Introducing 10 new rOpenSci Champions — all from Latin America, representing diverse backgrounds and leading inspiring projects. Each of them is advancing #OpenScience from within […]

Original post on hachyderm.io

hachyderm.io

Reposted by Erick Navarro-Delgado

Keegan Korthauer 🇨🇦 @keegankorthauer.bsky.social · May 15

🧬 Another new preprint out of the lab: a statistical method and software for cell-type deconvolution of methylated sequencing reads, led by Ning Shen! 🧵👇

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

decemedip: hierarchical Bayesian modeling for cell type deconvolution of immunoprecipitation-based DNA methylomes

MeDIP-seq is an enrichment-based DNA methylation profiling technique that measures the abundance of methylated DNA. While this technique offers efficiency advantages over direct methylation profiling,...

doi.org

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · May 14

❤️ Finally, I want to thank everyone involved in this work! Particularly, I would like to thank to the families and staff involved in the CHILD and PREDO studies. And to my amazing supervisors @keegankorthauer.bsky.social and Dr. Michael Kobor for shaping this work with me.

Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · May 14

🏃🏽‍♂️ We also validated the results we observed in PREDO, a Finnish cohort! Do you want to know more details? Check out our freshly pre-printed manuscript!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

RAMEN: Dissecting individual, additive and interactive gene-environment contributions to DNA methylome variability in cord blood

DNA methylation (DNAme) is the most commonly studied epigenetic mark in human populations. DNAme has gained attention in the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease field due to its gene expressio...

www.biorxiv.org

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · May 14

🧬 We found genetics to be a central contributor to DNA methylation variability in cord blood, usually in additive and interactive combinations with the environment. This highlights the importance of incorporating genetics into DNA methylation research, particularly in early life.

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · May 14

🫄🏽 We used RAMEN to answer this question in cord blood using CHILD, a nation-wide Canadian cohort. We studied the prenatal period since this window is highly sensitive! As we are developing, exposures, potentially mediated or reflected through DNA methylation, can impact our future health.

Home - CHILD Cohort Study

CHILD families: Please get in touch! If we've not heard from you since your 5-year visit or before, update your contact info with the Study and we'll send you $20. Get in touch! Calling all CHILD yout...

childstudy.ca

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · May 14

📊 Using machine learning and statistical techniques, RAMEN is able to estimate individual genetic, individual environmental, additive and interactive contributions to DNA methylation variability.

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · May 14

👨🏽‍💻 In this work, we developed RAMEN, a computational tool that integrates environmental, genetic and DNA methylation data to model how the first 2 factors associate with DNA methylation variability across the genome.

ericknavarrod.github.io/RAMEN/

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · May 14

🤔 Have you ever wondered how much does genetics and the environment contribute to shaping the DNA methylome? If the answer is yes, check out some of my latest research!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

RAMEN: Dissecting individual, additive and interactive gene-environment contributions to DNA methylome variability in cord blood

DNA methylation (DNAme) is the most commonly studied epigenetic mark in human populations. DNAme has gained attention in the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease field due to its gene expressio...

www.biorxiv.org

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · Mar 25

Lastly, I had the pleasure to present my work at the Student Symposium, where I was awarded with the second place at the best presentation competition 🎉.

Thank you to the organizers and the presenters! I had such a great time, and I look forward to the next research day 💻.

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · Mar 25

One of my highlights was attending to Dr. Helder Nakaya Keynote. In addition to the GREAT presentation about the future of biomedical research with AI omic analyses, it was really inspiring to see the innovative bioinformatics research conducted by another Latinamerican scientist on the main stage 🌎

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Erick Navarro-Delgado @ericknavarro.bsky.social · Mar 25

Last week I attended the joint research day of the Bioinformatics, Genomic Sciences and Technology, and Interdisciplinary Oncology programs from The University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University 🧬

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Cientifico Latino, Inc. @cientificolatino.com · Nov 26

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