Author: NeuroID Program

[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 …

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Horizons by Hopkins is Johns Hopkins’ first interdisciplinary professional development and career conference for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. This is a full-day virtual event scheduled for November 12th, 2020 from 9 am – 3 pm ET.  “We are excited to feature as Keynote speakers Dr. Valerie Young, renowned expert in impostor syndrome, and Dr. Leroy …

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Yoland Smith is a professor and vice-chair offaculty development in Neurology at the School of Medicine of Emory University. He is also the chief of the Division of Neuropharmacology andNeurological Disorders at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Join us the Wednesday, November 11, 2020 for a BP-ENDURE VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES that will be offered …

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On November 5, 2020, Dr. Luis Ferrao, the rector of the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, congratulated Dr. Carmen Maldonado-Vlaar for receiving the Bernice Grafstein Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Mentoring this year. Here is the congratulation letter from Dr. Ferrao that the UPRRP share with the community. (only Spanish version). Reference:Ferraro, L. …

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This week’s BP-EVSS will be offered by Dr. Meghan Creed, a an associate profesor of the department of Anesthesiology at Washington University (WU), School of Medicine and the PI of Creed Lab. The title for this seminar is “Rewiring synapses to treat addiction”. In addition, as recruitment contact of WU we have Dr. Tamara Hershey, …

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This year the Bernice Grafstein Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Mentoring goes to Dr. Carmen Maldonado-Vlaar (NeuroID’s Co-PI) and Dr. Barbara Shinn-Cunningham. A piece of SfN article: “Society for Neuroscience Celebrates Committed Women Mentors and Unique Early-Career Researchers“ “The Bernice Grafstein Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Mentoring recognizes individuals dedicated to developing the careers of …

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The 28th Puerto Rico Neuroscience Conference is the most important annual event of Neuroscience in Puerto Rico. An event that supports the Neuroscience research and training in the island of Puerto Rico and far away. This event is a one-day meeting that will be held on Saturday, December 5, 2020 and will be hosted by the Institute of Neurobiology …

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