The sequencing of two bacterial species showed the world just how much scientists in South and Central America could achieve with proper funding
. Its genome was sequenced by a Brazilian team in 2000.Daniela Robles-Espinoza was a first-year undergraduate at the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s newly established Center for Genomic Sciences in Cuernavaca when she got a front-row seat to the dawn of genomics in her country.
“I had this perception that if you want to do good science, you have to go abroad,” says Robles-Espinoza, who is now a group leader at UNAM’s International Laboratory for Human Genome Research in Querétaro, 200 km northwest of Mexico City. “It was kind of in the air that people want to leave. But I would say, not any more.”
Both Mexico and Brazil’s initial, time-limited sequencing projects also helped to train a new generation of genomics researchers, says Rafael Palacios, one of the directors of thesequencing effort and coordinator of UNAM’s International Laboratory for Human Genome Research. Mexico created a specialized undergraduate programme for future geneticists. And, in Brazil, the number of students earning master’s- and doctoral-level degrees in science doubled between 2000 and 2008 .
“There are very good scientists doing very good genomics in Mexico,” says Palacios. “They are the ones that will change the image of Mexican genomics.”From his office in sprawling São Paulo, Fernando Reinach watched a revolution unfold.
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