About Mariluz Gómez R.
How does the genome adapt during development or environmental signals? This is a fundamental question in biology. Organisms posess the ability to alter their phenotype in response to changes in their environment. Epigenetics is deepening the understanding of inheritance in gene expression when no alterations in DNA sequences has been observed.
Searching for answers to such question it has been my driving force in research, behavior and even philosophical point of view to get close in understanding the Universe.
I have pursued it from a mechanistical side, namely, from molecular biology. I am an experienced molecular biologist however I knew that our genetic code is far more powerful than the double helix. This lead me to pursue my doctoral studies in histone inheritance and sparked my passion to further study the dynamics of chromatin biology.
My Latest Projects
Semillero de Epigenética
Epigenetics Research Seedbed
Epigenetics aims to understand the inheritance of changes in gene expression and their function without alterations in the DNA sequence. My passion in this field is so strong that I established The Epigenetics Research Seedbed, an undergraduate led project working with the honey bee Apis mellifera at the lab, and with bees of the genus Melipona outdoors by the installation of the Meliponario (cultivation of native stingless bees); with the objective of conceptualizing social insects as model organisms in the investigation of epigenetic markers and the apply of basics of biotechnology; obtaining as results the tutorial of 3 hypothesis driven works and 9 systematic reviews.
Sf9 cells
Approaches to the dynamic of nuclear arquitecture
Repetitive DNA sequences that correspond to the third part of the eukaryotic genome are hotspots and a challenge for integrity of the genome. The organization and regulation of theses structures that participate in genome-environment relationship is unknown. The aim was to establish co-localization of proteins to tandem repeats. As a result, I supervised 2 hypothesis driven works.
Model organisms: Drosophila melanogaster, Apis mellifera & Spodoptera frugiperda.