Mitzli X. Velasco
National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM
Biography
Mitzli Xochitl Velasco López is a Ph.D. student of the Biomedical Sciences Program, The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), under the advice of Greco Hernández, of the Translation and Cancer Lab at National Institute of Cancer (INCan), Mexico City. She has done a research stay in the Lab of Luiz Penalva, University of Texas. Her research is focused on the study post-transcriptional mechanisms involved in cancer development. She is studying how RNA-binding proteins and microRNAs are involved at the interesting intersection between neurogenesis and brain tumor development, especially in glioblastoma.