Valeria successfully brought two snakes (on a plane) from the Amazon to Bogotá, Colombia, where she was able to obtain flash frozen tissues. Then she laboriously organized the export of the tissues to the USA (plane #2) while ensuring that they remain frozen, up until they arrived to the Vertebrate Genome Project lab this week (plane #3). We are so excited to process our first snake genome!

Meet Sandrita, the first of her species (Erythrolamprus reginae) to have her genome sequenced.