Teaching and tutorials

Courses, student mentoring and open tutorials. Most of the tutorial material is taken from other sources and adapted to my needs. If there is some attribution I have missed, let me know.

Courses taught

  • Bioinformatics applied to transcriptomics analysis — MSc in Neurobiology, UNAM. Guest lecturer (2024); coordinator and professor (2025, 2026).
    • Spatial transcriptomics tutorials — introduction to spatial sequencing (link), spot deconvolution (link), imaging-based spatial transcriptomics / MERFISH (link) and spatial transcriptomics class 12 (link).
  • Basic neurobiology course: cellular neurobiology and neurodevelopment — INB-UNAM graduate program (2024, 2025), guest lecturer.
  • Developmental Biology — Graduate program in Biochemical Sciences, UNAM (2024), guest lecturer.
  • Bioinformatics Week 2024 (Semana de Bioinformática) — INB-LAVIS, organizer and instructor (40 h).
    • Bulk RNA-seq tutorial — differential expression analysis of RNA-seq in R. link
  • 3rd Summer Retreat on Bioinformatics and Complex Networks (2024, Mineral de Pozos) — workshop speaker (single-cell transcriptomics).
    • Single-cell RNA-seq tutorial — single-cell RNA-seq analysis in R. link
  • Teaching extended to undergraduates of the Genomic Sciences degree (LCG) at ENES Juriquilla.

Student mentoring

  • Rocío Cortés Encarnación — MSc in Biomedicine (UAQ), co-advisor. In progress.
  • Rafael López Téllez — Bachelor's thesis: "Multi-omic analysis of regeneration in the mollusc Deroceras laeve" (WGBS methylation data).
  • José Edoardo Rincón Cruz — Biochemical Engineering (TecNM Tuxtla Gutiérrez), co-advisor of professional residency (2024). Graduated.
  • Rodrigo Paniagua Meza — summer internship (27th Verano de la Ciencia, Región Centro, 2025).

Interested in joining? See the openings in the lab.

Tutorials

Tutorials tied to a specific course are listed under that course above. The ones below stand on their own.

Command-line / terminal

Introduction to the bash command line for bioinformatics. link

Designing ISH probes with command-line tools. link

Working in R with the Deroceras laeve genome sequences to obtain features such as CpG islands. link