Marco Antonio Tello Palencia

Masters Student

Bioinformatics Program

Marco is a Bioinformatics graduate student at UBC in Dr. Keegan Korthauer's research group. He completed his undergraduate degree in Genomic Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he completed some wet-lab projects before deciding he wanted to focus on the analysis of biological data. His main research interest is to understand factors that influence how genes interact with other genes and with the environment. His current research project applies machine learning to unravel associations between differentially methylated regions and changes in gene expression.
 

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.

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Vancouver, BC Canada V5Z 4H4

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver is a joint initiative of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver and the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. Funding support for the clusters is provided by Academic Excellence Funds – UBC Vancouver.

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