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Participating Students 2013-2014

Student Mentor Research Title e-mail Lab phone
Amarilys Morales Rivera Carmen S. Maldonado The role of Oxytocin on the anxiety environment-elicited cocaine seeking behavior amarilys.morales@upr.edu 764-0000 x2712
Amilcar Rivera Rivera Suranganie Dharmawardhane Regulation of Akt/AMPK/mTOR Signaling and cancer progression by Grape Polyphenols in Breast Cancer amilcar.rivera2@upr.edu 1610
Bermary Santos Vera Carlos A. Jiménez Rivera Role of the Hyperpolarization Activated Cation Current Channel Subunit 2 (HCN2) in the development and expression of cocaine sensitization in areas of the Mesocorticolimbic System of male rats bermary.santos@upr.edu 1677
Bianca A. Torres Hernández José Ortiz Valerenic acid and Valeriana officinalis extracts: pharmacological tools for the treatment of Clonic- like convulsions and behavioral changes in Danio rerio (zebrafish) acnaibth@yahoo.com 1378
Carmelo Orengo Mercado Carmen L. Cadilla Structural and Functional Analysis of Recombinant TWIST2 and Selected Mutant Proteins Found in Setleis Syndrome Patients. Frequency of Q119X among the Puerto Rican Population carmelo.orengo@upr.edu 1372, 1638
Coral Rosa Falero José Ortiz Modulation of PTZ induced seizures in zebrafish with Citrus aurantium coral.rosa@upr.edu 1371
Ednalise Santiago Cartagena José Rodríguez Medina Identification of the essential stress sensors in myo1∆ cytokinesis mutant and the identification of protein-protein interactions for the principal sensor proteins of the PKC1 signaling pathway ednalise.santiago@upr.edu 1633
Emilee E. Colón Lorenzo Adelfa E. Serrano Role of Plasmodium berghei glutathione S-transferase in parasite development and its potential as a drug target emilee.colon@gmail.com 2217
Frances Zenón Meléndez Loyda M. Meléndez   frances.zenon@upr.edu 758-6395 x1313
Freddyson J. Martínez Rivera Jennifer L. Barreto Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation on Extinction of Morphine-Induced Conditioned Place Preference freddyson.martinez@upr.edu 1071
Giam S. Vega Meléndez Rosa E. Blanco Effects of ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) in axonal regeneration after optic nerve injury giam.vega@upr.edu 2269
Giselle A. Barreto Torres Sabzali Javadov The role of the AMPK/PPARα pathway in mitochondria-mediated cardioprotection against experimental ischemia/reperfusion  giselle.barreto@upr.edu 2688
Ileabett M. Echevarría Vargas Pablo E. Vivas MICRORNAS AND THEIR TARGET GENES PROMOTE CISPLATIN RESISTANCE IN EPITHELIAL OVARIAN CANCER CELLS ileabett.echevarriavargas@upr.edu 772-8300 x1404
Jean Marie Acevedo Rosario Manuel Díaz Rios Cellular effects of caffeine on the mouse spinal locomotor network jeanmarie.acevedo@upr.edu 721-4149 x229
Jeyshka M. Reyes González Pablo E. Vivas Targeting c-MYC in Cisplatin-Resistant Ovarian Cancer jeyshka.reyes@upr.edu 772-8300 x1404
Joan Ballista Hernández Sylvette Ayala Torres Mitochondrial DNA repair in colon cancer jballista.h@gmail.com 1375
José A. Quidgley Nevares María J. Crespo   jose.quidgley@upr.edu 5079
José F. Gaudier Pagán Ana M. Espino Molecular cloning, biochemical and immunological characterization of a novelFasciola hepatica tegument associated antigen jose.gaudier2@upr.edu 1312
Kelvin Quiñones Laracuente Gregory J. Quirk A time dependent recruitment of the paraventricular thalamus in fear memory circuits kelvinquinones@gmail.com 2420
Krizia Rohena Rivera Magaly Martínez Inflammatory chemokines as mediators of prostate cancer progression krizia.rohena@gmail.com 772-8300 x1106
Krystal Colón Rivera Loyda M. Meléndez Role of antioxidants in preventing Cathepsin B induced neurotoxicity in HIV-infected macrophages krystal.colon@upr.edu 758-6395 x1313
Luis D. Borrero García Suranganie Dharmawardhane Non-coding RNAs in EGFR therapy resistance in Breast Cancer luis.borrero1@upr.edu 1610
Marimar Hernández Pérez Carlos I. González Functional Roles of the Adenosine/Uridine-Rich Element and Trans-Acting Factors in the Post-Transcriptional Control of Human Interleukin-3 marimar.hernandez@upr.edu 764-0000 x81329
Marina Martínez Vargas Carlos I. González Regulation of Interleukin-3 mRNA Expression by Adenosine/Uridine-Rich Elements and miRNAs in T-Cell Lymphomas marina.martinez1@upr.edu 764-0000 x81329
Maryví González Solá Robert Kensler Zebrafish Cardiac Muscle Thick Filaments; A Non-mammalian Model for Analyzing Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Structure maryvi.gonzalez@upr.edu 1507
Mildred V. Duprey Díaz Rosa E. Blanco Retinoic acid signaling inoptic nerve regeneration mildred.duprey@upr.edu 2269
Mónica Rivera Díaz Pablo E. Vivas Role of MicroRNAs in Astrocytoma Progression monica.rivera3@upr.edu 772-8300 x1404
Namyr A. Martínez Alicea Walter I. Silva Role of Caveolin-1 in the Regulation of the P2Y(2) Nucleotide Receptor in Glial Cells namyr.martinez@upr.edu 1608
Nildris Cruz Díaz María J. Crespo Vascular expression of angiotensin convertin enzyme (ACE) and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isoforms on young syrian cardiomyopathic hamsters nildris.cruz@upr.edu 5079
Osmarie Martínez Guzmán Miguel Otero Adjuvant Effect of a Toll-like Receptor Agonist in Genetic Immunization against Smallpox osmarie.martinez@upr.edu 2098
Ramón Gómez Moreno Abel Baerga Pro-inflammatory bacterial genes in the intestinal microflora as risk factors for the development of gastrointestinal disorders ramon.gomez@upr.edu 1640
Rebecca M. Parodi Rullan Sabzali Javadov The role of Sirt3 in mitochondria-mediated cell death in cardiomyocytes rebecca.parodi@upr.edu 2688
Teresa Martínez Torres Iraida E. Robledo Characterization of Klebsiella pneumoniar carbapenemase (KPC) and its identification and genetic background inAcinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates teresa.martineztorres@upr.edu 1373
Tessa Humphries Bickley Suranganie Dharmawardhane Biochemical characterization of Rac inhibitor Ehop-016 tessahu888@gmail.com 1610
Yaria Arroyo Torres Carlos A. Torres Genetic Interaction between the Saccharomyces cerevisiae OGG1 and APN1 during acute oxidative stress and aging yaria.arroyo@upr.edu 1645
Yisel M. Cantres Rosario Loyda M. Meléndez Role of macrophage derived lysosomal protease cathepsin B in HIV-associated neurotoxicity yisel.m.cantres@upr.edu 758-6395 x1313