Faye Romero

Faye Romero

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Evolutionary, population, & conservation genomics

New podcast episode: heterosis in strawberries

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Is there such a thing as “good” inbreeding? Find out by listening to the newest episode of the GSA’s podcast “Genetics in Your World”: Breeding Better Berries: Inbreeding and Hybrid Vigor in Strawberries – A Conversation with Dr. Steven J. Knapp! In this episode, I interview Dr. Steven Knapp (UC Davis) about the fascinating genetics underlying hybrid vigor in strawberry cultivars and the genomic challenges facing plant breeders of the future.

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Conference presentation: AGA 2024

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I was an abstract-selected speaker at AGA 2024: Genomic Technologies and the Future of Conservation. I presented “The genetics of inbreeding depression in a pedigreed wild population of Florida Scrub-Jays”. View the highlights from my talk and others here!

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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!