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Dr. Jonathan Crooke-Rosado was awarded postdoctoral funding from the National Science Foundation

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Dr. Jonathan Crooke-Rosado was awarded postdoctoral funding from the National Science Foundation for his project Host Manipulation by Parasites: Development of a Neurogenetic Model. This support will enable Dr. Crooke-Rosado to conduct collaborative research with Dr. Joshua Rosenthal at the Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole MA, and Dr. Mark W. Miller at the Institute of Neurobiology. The funds were awarded under the NSF Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE) program.

 

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New NIH R21 grant at UPR School of Medicine!

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The Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology and the Department of Microbiology of the School of Medicine of the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico are proud to announce that Associate Professors Dr. Demetrio Sierra Mercado and Dr. Filipa Godoy Vitorino, have been awarded an R21 research grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a new collaborative project.

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Roberto Reyes Maldonado successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis

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August 26, 2022. Roberto Reyes Maldonado successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis: "Using a native insect species and its neuromuscular system as models for assessing benthic sediment toxicity in Puerto Rico: Chironomus sp. "Florida" (Diptera: Chironomidae)". Congratulations to Dr. Reyes Maldonado and his mentors Dr. Bruno Marie and Dr. Alonso Ramírez.

 

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Carihann M. Dominicci-Cotto successfully defended her doctoral thesis: "Regulation of Activity-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity: the Role of the Wingless Signaling Pathways".

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Carihann M. Dominicci-Cotto successfully defended her doctoral thesis: "Regulation of Activity-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity: the Role of the Wingless Signaling Pathways". Congratulations to Dr. Dominicci-Cotto, and to her mentor Dr. Bruno Marie!

 

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The Miller lab was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation!

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The four-year project, Neurobiology of Host Manipulation by Parasites, was funded under the NSF Organismal Systems and Infection Biology (OSIB) program. It will enable the lab to continue its work on neuro-parasitology with collaborators in Canada, Spain, and Egypt. These collaborations were developed under the NSF Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE) program.

 

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The COBRE Center for Neuroplasticity co-sponsored the Southeast Regional IDeA Conference (San. Juan, PR; 11/12 - 14, 2021

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 Left photo: Speakers in the Neuroscience Session included (l to r): Dr. Andrew Seeds (UPR COBRE Center for Neuroplasticity, Alicen Wilcox (Harding University), and Dr. Jessica Larsen (Clemson University). Dr. Nicolas Bazan (LSU Health Center; screen insert) participated remotely. Dr. Mark Miller (UPR COBRE Center for Neuroplasticiy; rear) co-moderated the session.  Right photo: Dr. José Lasalde (UPR COBRE Center for Neuroplasticity PD) chaired the session on the "High Risk, High Reward" NIH initiative.

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