Faye Romero

Faye Romero

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Evolutionary, population, & conservation genomics

NSF GRFP

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I was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation! I’m so grateful to the mentors and colleagues who helped me along the way, especially my advisor Dr. Nancy Chen and the whole Chen lab.

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New pre-print: Florida Scrub-Jay genome

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Check out our new pre-print for a new Florida Scrub-Jay genome assembly and annotation. Long-read sequencing and a linkage map helped us add ~260 Mbp of sequence and find a few more chromosomes in comparison to previous assemblies.

Filipinas in STEM

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I was interviewed by Science Corps Education & Research Fellow Swastika Issar (in partnership with the Central Visayan Institute Foundation) on my experience as a Filipino-American woman in STEM. There aren’t many Filipinos and Fil-Ams in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and we often go unseen (like so many others) due to being lumped under the monolith of “Asian”. I was honored to share my story and research!