Elias Rafael Ruiz-Morales

Sandwich Year Placement

Elias is a student at the Immune Genomics group.

He is a passionate of the study of the immune system, its regulation and behaviour during disease by applying high-throughput technologies like single cell sequencing.

Selected Publications

Heterochromatin establishment during early mammalian development is regulated by pericentromeric RNA and characterized by non-repressive H3K9me3.
Burton A, Vincent B, Carmen G, Ruiz-Morales ER, et al.
Nature Cell Biology 2020: 1-12.
PUBMED: 32601371; DOI: 10.1038/s41556-020-0536-6

Genome-lamina interactions are established de novo in the early mouse embryo.
Borsos M, Perricone SM, Schauer T, Pontabry J, de Luca KL et al.
Nature 2019; 569 (7758): 729-733.
PUBMED: 31118510; PMC: 6546605; DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1233-0

My timeline

• Sandwich student, Wellcome Sanger Institute

• BSc Hons in Genomic Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico

• Intern at Torres-Padilla Lab, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany