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Mario Apata
@marioapata.bsky.social
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PhD candidate at Arizona State University specializing in ancient genomics, human population history, oral microbiomes, and genetic adaptation to arsenic. Swimmer and oil painting artist.
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Today @marioapata.bsky.social successfully defended his dissertation! (Co-chairs @sexchrlab.bsky.social and me). Mario's science is complemented by his beautiful illustrations (which I poorly tried to imitate in icing form for the cake!). Congratulations Dr. Apata!!!
Anne Stone and Mario Apata smiling and admiring his cake (which features DNA, teeth, cell culture and an Andean woman in icing form to reflect his dissertation on Ancient DNA and the microbiome in communities from Northern Chile along with functional analyses of regulatory mutations influencing arsenic tolerance in these people.
May 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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sexchrlab.bsky.social
Congratulations Dr. Mario Apata @marioapata.bsky.social! Dr. Apata successfully defended his dissertation today on work w/ ancient DNA, the microbiome, and functional genomics of arsenic tolerance, co-advised by Dr. Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social and myself, collaborating w/ Dr. Jeanne Wilson-Rawls
Mario presenting a snapshot of his research to the Center for Evolution and Medicine. Mario and me standing together, smiling, at the SMBE conference in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. A lab lunch with current and former lab members at Engrained Cafe at Arizona State University.
May 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM