Gómez-Romero, Laura Lucila

Dr. Laura Lucila Gómez Romero obtained a Bachelor's degree in Genomic Sciences and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is currently the Head of the Bioinformatics Department at the National Institute of Genomic Medicine and a researcher in Human Genomics and Cancer. Additionally, she is a member of the National System of Researchers Level I and a professor at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Monterrey Institute of Technology. Dr. Gómez is part of several multidisciplinary teams, where she considers bioinformatics, computational biology, data science and artificial intelligence as one of the pillars for addressing disease and health-related questions and to generate high social impact improving people's quality of life. Research Areas ----- Cancer prevention and diagnosis using artificial intelligence algorithms and multi-omics data analysis ----- Genomic surveillance of emerging pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 and Acinetobacter baumannii ----- Development and automation of bioinformatics workflows to optimize research efforts in the field of bioinformatics Selected publications Gómez-Romero, L., Cedro-Tanda, A., Alcaraz, N., de Anda-Jauregui, G., Peñaloza, F., Moreno, B., ... & Herrera, L. A. (2021). The evolutionary landscape of SARS-CoV-2 variant B. 1.1. 519 and its clinical impact in Mexico City. Viruses, 13(11), 2182. Gómez-Romero, L., Cedro-Tanda, A., de Anda-Jauregui, G., Garnica-López, D., Alfaro-Mora, Y., Sánchez-Xochipa, S., ... & Herrera, L. A. (2022). Early genomic, epidemiological, and clinical description of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Mexico City. Viruses, 14(3), 545. Pérez-Amado, C. J., Tovar, H., Gómez-Romero, L., Beltrán-Anaya, F. O., Bautista-Piña, V., Dominguez-Reyes, C., ... & Jiménez-Morales, S. (2020). Mitochondrial DNA mutation analysis in breast cancer: shifting from germline heteroplasmy toward homoplasmy in tumors. Frontiers in Oncology, 10, 572954. Gómez-Romero, L., Palacios-Flores, K., Reyes, J., García, D., Boege, M., Dávila, G., ... & Palacios, R. (2018). Precise detection of de novo single nucleotide variants in human genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(21), 5516-5521. Santos-Zavaleta, A., Salgado, H., Gama-Castro, S., Sánchez-Pérez, M., Gómez-Romero, L., Ledezma-Tejeida, D., ... & Collado-Vides, J. (2019). RegulonDB v 10.5: tackling challenges to unify classic and high throughput knowledge of gene regulation in E. coli K-12. Nucleic acids research, 47(D1), D212-D220.