They became a communication vehicle for non-profit organizations. 2020 began with the south of Puerto Rico shaking, causing the collapse of schools, homes, and families that lost everything. Then the Covid-19 pandemic arrived, but the needs were still there. Given this, five women came together to create the “Network of Volunteers” so that help continued to arrive. …
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Society for Neurosciences (SfN) will have the virtual event Global Connectome, from January 11-13, 2021, where there will feature a variety of panel sessions, “a discussion of science and culture focusing on how to continue to enhance the work of science” (SfN,2021). On Tuesday, January 12 at 1:15–2 p.m. (EST), our co-principal investigator, Dr. Carmen …
Our last BP-EVSS of this semester is this Wednesday, December 16, 2020, at 5:00 pm (AST) via Google Meet. For this seminar, join us as a guest speaker is Dr. Kristine Nielson, is an associate professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the title of her seminar is: ” Development of …
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Today’s BP-ENDURE VirtualSeminar Series will be offered by a guest speaker, Dr. Edith Brignoni-Peréz, a postdoctoral fellow at the Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics research unit at Standford University, School of Medicine. Join her, is Kalai Diamond, for the second part of the seminar recruitment contact offering information about Standford and its programs. Kalai is the Sr. student …
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This year, the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students 2020 (ABRCMS), was held virtually between 9 and 13 November 2020, as a security measure by the COVID-19. However, this didn’t stop the students to participate in this great conference. Among the hundreds of students, one current and one former Neuro-ID members were awarded: Andrea …
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This week we are back again with BP-ENDURE VirtualSeminar Series. For this week’s seminar, our guest speaker is Hector de Jesús from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After Dr. de Jesús seminar, the recruitment information for MIT will be offered by Dr. Mandana Sassanfar, she is the director of Diversity and Science Outreach. [image animation=”left-to-right” …
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[image animation=”left-to-right” size=”regular” align=”aligncenter” alt=”” title=””]https://neuroid.uprrp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-26-at-11.11.27-AM.png[/image]Paola M. Morales CarvajalClass 2020-2022 The Neuro-ID Program is grateful to share with you this wonderful news. Last Wednesday, Paola M. Morales-Carvajal, with the contribution of five students, publish her first publication. Paola is a Neuro-ID student from the class of 2020 -2022. She is an undergraduate student from the …
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“Postdoc and postgrad positions are available in Montalvo-Ortiz lab at Yale Department of Psychiatry, Division of Human Genetics. The primary research focus is the study of genomics and epigenomics of psychiatric disorders in human peripheral and postmortem brain tissue. We also investigate psychiatric genomics in admixed Latinx populations.” Access the lab website: https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/montalvo-ortiz/ [image animation=”left-to-right” size=”dont_scale” …
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On Wednesday, November 18, 2020, at 5:00 pm (AST) Kelly R. Monk, Ph.D. will be offering the BP-ENDURE Virtual Seminar Series. Dr. Monk is a senior scientist and co-director at Vollum Institute and also the director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program at Oregon Health & Science University. Join her at the presentation will be Mr. Mateo …
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On Tuesday, November 17, 2020, starting at 11:45 am (AST) at the University of Puerto Rico, Humacao Campus (UPRH) there will be a Nobel Prize. Dr. Jennifer Doudna, professor of Cellular and Molecular Biology and Chemistry at UC Berkeley and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2020) for discovering CRISPR (genetic editing method), will …