Dr. Tello-Ruiz is a PhD-level geneticist from SUNY Stony Brook, with 2 years training in population genetics at the Broad Institute of Harvard University and MIT, and 10 years training in bioinformatics at CSHL. She served as the project manager for the Human HapMap Coordinating Center, and coordinated international collaborative efforts with the Type 2 Diabetes Chromosome 1q Consortium and Beta-Cell Therapy Group to sculpt, curate, and integrate diabetes pathways into the Reactome Pathways Database. She taught for 1.5 years at the undergraduate level at SUNY Stony Brook and the Polytechnical Institute of New York University. She currently serves as the Project Manager of the Gramene Comparative Plant Genomics & Pathways Database. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, hiking, and dancing.