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Dr. Selene Fernandez Valverde is a genomic scientist and bioinformatician with significant expertise in studying the evolutionary roles of non-coding RNAs in gene regulatory landscapes across eukaryotes. She is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at UNSW Sydney, where she leads research on the evolution of long non-coding RNAs to predict their functions in plants and animals through bioinformatic tools and genomic approaches. Dr. Fernandez holds a Bachelor of Science in Genomic Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and completed her doctorate at the University of Queensland, focusing on small RNAs. Her postdoctoral research at UQ involved comparative genomics to understand regulatory changes in multicellular organisms. She returned to Mexico as a Principal Investigator at Cinvestav and joined UNSW in mid-2023. Dr. Fernandez is recognized for her contributions to science, including awards such as the L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science fellowship and the Gender Equality Award from the International Union of Immunological Societies.
University of New South Wales • Sydney, NSW, Australia
Teaching and leading research in the area of genomics and bioinformatics, focusing on non-coding RNAs.
Cinvestav • Mexico
Led research on genomic data analysis to understand gene regulatory mechanisms.
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