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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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Next Wednesday, October 28, 2020 will be our ninth seminar of the BP-ENDURE Virtual Seminar Series (BP-EVSS). This seminar will be offered by Tracy Bale, PhD, professor of the Department of Pharmacology & Psychiatry and the Director of the Center for Epigenetic Research in Child Health & Brain Development at University of Maryland, School of Medicine. …

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The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center invites you to apply for a 10-week research experience on one of their four summer internships programs for college students for Summer 2021. “Training and education are mainstays of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s mission. As early as 1927, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.— who, along with his father, founded the hospital …

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This week BP-ENDURE Virtual Seminar will be given by Suzana Herculano, PhD associate profesor from Vanderbilt University Departments of Psychology and Biological Sciences with the title “Life slows down with more neurons in the cerebral cortex”. Join her is Dr. David Winder, who is the Director at Vanderbilt Center for Addiction. Dr. Winder is the recruitment …

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Seminar title: “ APOE and Alzheimer’s disease” by Bill Rebeck, PhD Speaker: Dr. Bill Rebeck Professor Department of Neuroscience Co-director of NIH of Jointly Sponsored Institutional Predoctoral Training Program T32 Georgetown University

Tomorrow’s virtual seminar is title: “A translational approach to the study and treatment of leptomeningeal metastasis” by Dr. Adrienne Boire from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Joining her, for the recruitment section is the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSK) team, where three of them are alumni’s from the University of …

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“Unveiling brain function through Motion Sequencing” by Sandeep Robert Datta On Wednesday, September 30, 2020, BP-ENDURE Virtual Seminar Serie’ speaker was Dr. Sandeep Robert Datta from Harvard Medical University with contact recruitment  Dr. Taralyn Tan, who gave information about Harvard Medical University and its programs. Read Dr. Datta’s biography here. Watch this seminar  here. [one_half][image animaton=”scale” size=”regular” …

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