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Institute personnel received three Occupational Safety and Health training sessions on June 9, 2016: Institutional Chemical Hygeine, HAZCOM 2012 - Global Harmonization System, and Storage and Disposal of Dangerous Chemical Waste.  Yolanda Rodrígues, M.S.

In this photo, first author Francheska Delgado-Peraza models recent advances in protective labwear. Congratulations to the Yudowski group !

Mechanisms of Biased β-Arrestin-Mediated Signaling Downstream from the Cannabinoid 1 Receptor. Delgado-Peraza F, Ahn KH, Nogueras-Ortiz C, Mungrue IN, Mackie K, Kendall DA, Yudowski GA.
Mol Pharmacol. 2016 Jun;89(6):618-29.

A collaboration between the Miller lab and Dr. Mohamed Habib, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Cairo Egypt, was recently awarded a grant from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.  The grant will provide three years of support for their project  “A Neurobiological Approach to Vector Control for Intestinal Schistosomiasis".

Dr. Amelia Merced was accepted to the prestigious Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy course at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Salisbury Cove, Maine. Amelia was awarded a fellowship to travel to this one-week intensive workshop, May 20-27.  Enhorabuena Amelia !!!

Dr. Joshua Rosenthal's presentation at the American Geophysical Union's Ocean Sciences Meeting was reported by ScienceNews:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/corals-need-take-their-vitamin-c

Institute graduate student Solymar Rolón Martínez spent five weeks at the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases (NIPD), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Shanghai, PRC. Her work forms part of a collaboration with Dr. Mohamed Habib (lower left), Theodor Bilharz Research Institute (TBRI), Cairo, Egypt, and Professor Xiao-Nong Zhou, Director, NIPD. Solymar was supported by the Neural Mechanisms of Reward and Decision program, National Science Foundation (NSF) Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE).

Yolanda Rodriguez, M.S., from the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus Oficina de Seguridad en Laboratories de Investigación (OSLI) presented two training sessions to Institute of Neurobiology faculty, students, and technical staff on December 8, 2015.  The presentations Manejo de Desperdicios Biomédicos Regulados 2015 and Globally Harmonized System Hazard Communication were co-sponsored by the RCMI Translational Neuroscience Program and the Puerto Rico Center for Neuroplasticity (COBRE) Faculty Development Program.

Dr. Mark Miller was awarded a $3.8M, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation for the project "Neural Mechanisms of Reward and Decision". The award, supported by the Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE) program also includes projects from Dr. Annabell Segarra and Dr. Carlos Jiménez, both in the Department of Physiology at the Medical Sciences Campus, and Dr. Tugrul Giray at the Department of Biology, Rio Piedras.  The project will foster collaboration with investigators in Oklahoma, Canada, Egypt, Italy, Turkey and Chile.

The Institute of Neurobiology hosted the 4th Annual Retreat and Assessment Activity of the Puerto Rico Center for Environmental Neuroscience (October 1-3, 2015).  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