Dr. Pérez Mojica earned his B.S. in nutrition from the Autonomous University of Querétaro, his M.S. in molecular biomedicine from the CINVESTAV and his Ph.D. in human development and health from the University of Southampton. His graduate work focused on investigating the effect that fatty acids have on DNA methylation and post-translational modifications of histones. Overall, his research interests lay in understanding how environmental factors induce epigenetic modifications, which in turn, may promote disease states. He has numerous technical lab skills, including fatty acid determination by gas chromatography, reverse transcription (RT)-PCR, pyrosequencing, chromatin immunoprecipitation, transfection of cells, luciferase reporter assays, and more. In 2019, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Heidi Lempradl at Van Andel Institute as a postdoctoral fellow.