Ana Castillo

Building a Career in #Bioinformatics! This field is so diverse, and we can have many different roles based on our skills! Take a look at the recently published extension of the @iscb.bsky.social Competency Framework!
🗞️ Paper: academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
🔬 Competency Hub: competency.ebi.ac.uk

James Watson: Titan of science with tragic flaws Science historian Nathaniel Comfort reflects on the “most famous scientist of the 20th century, and the most infamous of the 21st”

In an interview with ScienceInsider, science historian Nathaniel Comfort reflects on James Watson’s legacy. https://scim.ag/47ykE3q

Thank you so much to for @rrcancer.bsky.social and @ccralliance.bsky.social for the #travel award to attend #ccrc2025 in #Calgary to talk about my PhD work in the #Metastasis lighting session track #RRCancer #CCRC2025 #Oncopole #pediatric #brain #tumors #metastasis #bioinformatics #CancerResearch 🍁🇨🇦

This is not an ordinary table at the Eagle Pub in Cambridge UK! Here, James Watson and Francis Crick loved to lunch and discuss about the structure of DNA. After looking at “Photograph 51” by Rosalind Franklin they came to the conclusion to the double helical structure in 1953! 🧬 #history #science

We are at the inauguration of #ISMBECCB2025 Liverpool UK! Let’s begin with a fantastic keynote speaker! John Jumper, Nobel Prize dinner for the work with Google Deep Mind and #alphafold2
#proteins #structure #prediction #bioinformatics #ISMBECCB2025 #iscbsc

Here at #GBES2025 in a panel to discuss “Bioinformatics in Mexico:Addressing Challenges in Education for tomorrow’s scientists! #Bioinformatics #Education #summit #Mexico 🇲🇽 Open thread 🧵!

Day 2 at #GBES2025: Perspectives on using #AI in bioinformatics training. Our task: translating training materials into different languages! Tougher than it seems! Patricia Carvajal, David Requena @drequena.bsky.social, and Aylin Dmm @aylindmm.bsky.social!
#BioinfoEducation #AIinBioinformatics

Grateful to have helped co-organize #GBES2025 and to return to my alma mater, @tecdemonterrey.bsky.social, in Mexico City 🇲🇽. Many insights are being shared to define competencies and soft skills needed in bioinformatics. Surprised by learning all the different roles in the field based on these!

Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand Nature - Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics

https://go.nature.com/42Zryw1

You can experience "Photograph 51" through several media platforms. Here's a breakdown of where you can listen and see the play:
🎧 Amazon: www.amazon.com/Photograph-5...
📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDNX...
 🔊 SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/latheatrewor...

Happy #DNADay! #sciencecommunication

🧬 Happy #DNADay!! 🧬
Today, we celebrate April 25th, a date that marks the discovery of DNA's double helix structure in 1953 and the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003

To honor this day, I’ve made a short video about "Photograph 51." Have you heard of this play? Feel free to comment! 🧬

Yay! 🎉 The Global Bioinformatics Education Summit is coming to Mexico City for the first time! I’m beyond excited and proud that GBES will take place at my alma mater, @tecdemonterrey.bsky.social !
Applications are open! www.bioinfoedsummit.org hope to see you there! #GlobalSummit #MexicoCity

🎙 Super Excited to share our latest #BioinfoBridges episode!

🎧 From network biology to machine learning, Dr. Augustin Luna @cannin.bsky.social's work aims to transform clinical outcomes and improve cancer research!
👉 Tune in here for more!: open.spotify.com/episode/2Xu7...

🇲🇽Happy to visit Mérida, Mexico, to teach my first #scRNAseq course (December 16-17) at @CINVESTAVMERIDA
alongside great researchers! Thank you, Dr. Cristina Dulá, for the organization and the invitation! #Bioinformatics #CancerResearch #LATAM