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This year, the Institute of Neurobiology is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its founding in 1967, by Dr. Jose del Castillo. On June 10, Dr. Maria Sosa, Acting Institute Director, and Dr. Gladys Escalona, the Institute's first graduate student, were presented with a special commemoration of this anniversary during the UPR Medical Sciences Campus graduation ceremonies. The presentation was made by Chancellor Ramón González and Dean José Capriles.

Faculty speakers from the Institute of Neurobiology presented their research at the Puerto Rico INBRE - COBRE Symposium, May 19-20, 2017.  Speakers in the Neurocience session included (left to right) Dr. Amaya Miquelajauregui, Dr. Kristin Branson (Keynote, Janelia Research Campus), Dr. Andrew Seeds, and Dr. Cristina Velåzquez.  Dr. Mark Miller served as session moderator. 

Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Rosenthal (affiliations: Institute of Neurobiology, UPR RCM, and MBL, Woods Hole) and collaborators for the featured article in the very prestigious journal Cell. (http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30344-6)

Ernesto Cabezas-Bou was recently admitted to the prestigious summer course "Neural Systems and Behavior" which will be held at the historic Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. This course is a highly competitive discovery-oriented training opportunity for the next generation of neuroscientists. 

Congratulations to Cristina Roman Vendrell, graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Guillermo Yudowski, who was accepted into the prestigious and highly competitive Neurobiology summer course at the historic Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Congratulations to Dr. Jacqueline Flores of the Institute, whose research on retinoblastoma is described in an article in Medicina y Salud Publica!  

The Institute co-sponsored a ceremony held on December 2, 2016 to commemorate the 25th Puerto Rico Neuroscience Conference and to recognize its founders - Dr. Richard Orkand (Institute of Neurobiology), and Drs. Vesna Etrovic, Pedro Ferchmin, and Richard Hann (Universidad Central del Caribe). Photo: Drs. José G. Ortíz, Gladys Escalona and Carlos Jiménez shared memories of early meetings. Thanks to Drs. Carmen Maldonado and José Enrique García-Arrarás for organizing this activity.

The Institute of Neurobiology hosted the 5th Annual Retreat and Assessment Activity of the Puerto Rico Center for Environmental Neuroscience (October 13-14, 2016).  This NSF sponsored Center for Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program provides research and training opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students from the Rio Piedras Campus and the Medical Sciences Campus. 

Congratulations to Dr. Cristina Velazquez-Marrero and the outstanding team of Institute researchers and students who recently published their work in the Journal of Neuroscience: "Alcohol Regulates BK Surface Expression via Wnt/Beta-Catenin Signaling", by Cristina Velazquez-Marrero, Alexandra Burgos, José O. García, Stephanie Palacio, Hector G. Marrero, Alexandra Bernardo, Juliana Perez-Laspiur, Marla Rivera-Oliver, Garrett Seale and Steven N. Treistman.