Erick I. Navarro-Delgado

Erick I. Navarro-Delgado

(he/him)
PhD Candidate in Bioinformatics

The University of British Columbia

Biography

¡Hola!

I am a Bioinformatician currently doing his PhD at the University of British Columbia under the co-supervision of Dr. Keegan Korthauer and Dr. Michael Kobor.

I have been developing biomedical research projects since 2015, learning wet and dry lab techniques in a wide variety of fields such as immunology, aging, cancer, and epigenomics. I am currently interested in developing computational tools to integrate genome, exposome and DNA methylome data to model the factors that contribute to DNA methylation variability across early life. I am approaching this with a multidisciplinary lens that connects biology, psychosocial disciplines and computer science, with the aim of improving our understanding of how and under which conditions individual genetic susceptibility and environmental exposures may work together to influence DNA methylation in a highly sensitive human developmental period.

Another passion of mine is science outreach. I have ongoing projects to build coding skills (mainly R) in students through free workshops, specially targeted at the Latinx community. If you have any idea or want to collaborate, please send me an email! I am always excited to participate in activities that make scientific knowledge more accessible.

You can download my CV here! (or you can check my LinkedIn profile for a more complete description).

Interests
  • Multi-omics data integration
  • Gene-environment interactions
  • Data science
  • Social epigenetics
  • Science outreach
Education
  • PhD in Bioinformatics, 2026

    The University of British Columbia

  • B.Sc. in Biology, 2021

    Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Skills

R
Python
High dimensional statistics

Projects

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Gene-environment contribution to early life DNA methylation

Gene-environment contribution to early life DNA methylation

Infancy and early childhood are highly sensitive periods in human development. DNA methylation (DNAme), an epigenetic tag that is deposited on DNA, has been proposed as one of the mechanisms by which early life experiences can become biologically embedded. This project aims to model DNA methylation variability and the contribution of genetic variation and environmental differences to it.

Publications

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