Edmundo Torres-González
Ph.D. student
Interests
- Mitochondrial and nuclear genome coevolution
- Mutagenesis in mitochondrial DNA
- Mitochondrial DNA copy number in context of child weight gain
Education
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B.S. in Biology,
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Biography
Before starting his PhD in the Makova lab, Edmundo worked on regional human variation as an undergraduate in Puerto Rico and on translational cancer genomics as a postdoc in NIH. As part of this thesis work, he focuses on mitochondrial genomics that cover its evolution, and relation to complex phenotypes.
Publications
D Yoo, A Rhie, P Hebbar, F Antonacci, GA Logsdon, SJ Solar, D Antipov, BD Pickett, Y Safonova, F Montinaro, Y Luo, J Malukiewicz, JM Storer, J Lin, AN Sequeira, RJ Mangan, G Hickey, GM Anez, P Balachandran, A Bankevich, CR Beck, A Biddanda, M Borchers, GG Bouffard, E Brannan, SY Brooks, L Carbone, L Carrel, AP Chan, J Crawford, M Diekhans, E Engelbrecht, C Feschotte, G Formenti, GH Garcia, L de Gennaro, D Gilbert, RE Green, A Guarracino, I Gupta, D Haddad, J Han, RS Harris, GA Hartley, WT Harvey, M Hiller, K Hoekzema, ML Houck, H Jeong, K Kamali, M Kellis, B Kille, C Lee, Y Lee, W Lees, AP Lewis, Q Li, M Loftus, YHE Loh, H Loucks, J Ma, Y Mao, JFI Martinez, P Masterson, RC McCoy, B McGrath, S McKinney, BS Meyer, KH Miga, SK Mohanty, KM Munson, K Pal, M Pennell, PA Pevzner, D Porubsky, T Potapova, FR Ringeling, JL Rocha, OA Ryder, S Sacco, S Saha, T Sasaki, MC Schatz, NJ Schork, C Shanks, L Smeds, DR Son, C Steiner, AP Sweeten, MG Tassia, F Thibaud-Nissen, E Torres-González, M Trivedi, W Wei, J Wertz, M Yang, P Zhang, S Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Zhang, SA Zhao, Y Zhu, ED Jarvis, JL Gerton, I Rivas-González, B Paten, ZA Szpiech, CD Huber, TL Lenz, MK Konkel, SV Yi, S Canzar, CT Watson, PH Sudmant, E Molloy, E Garrison, CB Lowe, M Ventura, RJ O’Neill, S Koren, KD Makova, AM Phillippy, EE Eichler.
Complete sequencing of ape genomes.
NATURE,
2025.
E Torres-González, MA Cremona, JM Storer, M Ventura, RJ O’Neill, KD Makova.
Nuclear Mitochondrial Sequences in Great Ape Telomere-to-Telomere Genomes.
BIORXIV,
2025.
E Torres-González, KD Makova.
Exploring the effects of mitonuclear interactions on mitochondrial DNA gene expression in humans.
FRONT GENET,
2022.