Winning the Pearson Award was a turning point in my career. It helped establish one of Ecuador’s first genomics labs. Last week, I shared our latest research of the Latin American Genomics Network at the #ASM2026 meeting in Norfolk, VA. @mammalogists.bsky.social

📷 It was a pleasure to design and teach this environmental DNA course, working with everything from microorganisms to vertebrates, fungi, and plants from soil samples. A rewarding experience teaching researchers from USFQ and UTPL, Ecuador using @nanoporetech.com

New preprint exploring whole-genome variation in South American pumas 🐆 and how historic climate swings shaped their genetic diversity, with implications for conservation. 🌎🧬 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

With @oxfordnanopore.bsky.social, during library preparation, I want to add multiple amplicons (e.g COI, ITS, 16S) from the same SOIL sample into a single barcode. Is it possible to separate them later after basecalling? Maybe soemthing like Bin by primer sequences using cutadapt (or similar) ???

Our reply to Butler et al's recent @pnas.org paper on Peto's Paradox. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Paradoxical indeed | PNAS

Paradoxical indeed

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Our letter on @pnas.org. We reanalyzed prior comparative oncology data and found no evidence that species diversification predicts cancer prevalence once appropriate models are used. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2532925123

🧬 Museums + zoos = a rapid ID pipeline. Using a local network in Ecuador, we genetically identified trafficked olingos (Bassaricyon), revealed a likely new country record, and shared a recipe for accessing high-quality samples from the wild. url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...