Sobre Mi:
I did my B.S. in Biology at the University fo Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM) in 1980. Got my Ph.D. degree in Biology in 1988 from Harvard University. After spending one year as a postdoc in the same university, I joined the faculty of the Department of Biology UPRM in 1989 as an assistant professor. Became full professor in 1997.
Información de proyecto:
I have been several years studying the pre-Columbian migrations to the Caribbean that gave rise to the so-called Tainos in the Greater Antilles through mtDNA sequence analysis. More recently, I became part of the 1000 Genomes Project and led the collection of samples in Puerto Rico. In collaboration with colleagues at Stanford University and UCSF we are reconstructing the genetic variation present in the Puerto Rican Tainos that have survived until today.