Cedeño Cedeño, Yessenia

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Name: Yessenia Cedeño Cedeño

Faculty: Biology

Major: Biotechnology

Active Member: 2011- 2014

Current Status: Currently enrolled in a BS Graduate Program at Universidad de Puerto Rico Mayaguez

P.R. Meetings and Conferences

  • 1st Educative Simposium: Quiero ser científico… ¿y ahora qué? (UPR-Medical Sciences Campus. September 24, 2011. Rio Piedras, PR)
  • 21st Annual Puerto Rico Neuroscience Conference 2011 (December, 2011. San Juan, PR)
  • 32nd Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 47th Junior Technical Meeting. (UPR-Carolina. March 10, 2012. Carolina. PR)
  • UPR-Mayagüez 2nd Annual Undergraduate Symposium (May, 2012. Mayagüez, PR)
  • Southern Science Symposium. Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences. (December, 2012)
  • 33rd Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 48th Junior Technical Meeting. (Univ. del Turabo. March 9, 2013. Gurabo. PR)
  • UPR-Mayagüez 3rd Annual Undergraduate Symposium (May, 2013. Mayagüez, PR)
  • Microbiology Society of Puerto Rico Student Investigation Symposium (December 7, 2013)
  • 34th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 49th Junior Technical Meeting. (Univ. del Turabo. March, 2014)

U.S. Meetings & Conferences: 

  • ABRCMS 2011 Convention. St. Louis, Missouri. November, 2011
  • Experimental Biology 2012 Convention. San Diego, California. April, 2012
  • ABRCMS 2012 Convention. San Jose, California. November, 2012
  • ABRCMS 2013. Convention. Nashville, Tennessee. November, 2013
  • Experimental Biology 2014. Convention. San Diego, California. April, 2014

Presentations:

  • Tittle: “Effect Of HIV-1 Gp120 Expression On Glutamate Metabolism In Human Astrocytes”
    • Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, 2013. (November 13-16, 2013) Nashville, TN
    • 34nd Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 49th Junior Technical Meeting. (March 29, 2014)
      UPR-Cayey
  • Title: C. elegans hlh-3 mutant males have abnormal behavior in three specific mating-related steps
    • University of Illinois Summer Research Symposium  (July, 2014) Chicago, IL
    • Summer Research Opportunity Program Simposium 2014 (July, 2014) Chicago, IL
    • Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, 2014. (November, 2014) San Antonio, TX