Name: Michael Manoharan Valerio
Faculty: Biology
Major: Biotechnology
Active Member: Summer, 2012
Current Status: Currently Enrolled in Bachelor Degree at UPR-Ponce
U.S. Meetings & Conferences:
- ABRCMS 2012 Convention. San Jose, California. November, 2012
- ABRCMS 2013. Convention. Nashville, Tennessee. November, 2013
- Experimental Biology 2014. Convention. San Diego, California. April, 2014
- ABRCMS 2014. Convention. San Antonio, TX. November, 2014
- Experimental Biology 2015. Convention. Boston, MA. April, 2015
P.R. Meetings and Conferences
- Southern Science Symposium. Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences. (December, 2012)
- 21st Annual Puerto Rico Neuroscience Conference 2012 (December, 2012)
- 33rd Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 48th Junior Technical Meeting. (Univ. del Turabo. March 9, 2013. Gurabo. PR)
- UPR-Mayaguez 3rd Annual Undergraduate Symposium (May, 2013. Mayaguez, PR)
- 34th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 49th Junior Technical Meeting. (Univ. del Turabo. March, 2014. Gurabo. PR)
- 35th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 50th Junior Technical Meeting. (Univ. of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus. March, 2015. San Juan, PR)
Research Internships:
- Summer 2013- Ponce Health Sciences University. Ponce, PR
- Summer 2014- University of Colorado in Denver
- Summer 2015- Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine in NY.
Presentations:
- Tittle: Astrocytes expressing Nef promote apoptosis in neurons
- Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, 2012. (November 7-11, 2012) San Jose, CA.
- 33rd Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 48th Junior Technical Meeting. (March 9, 2013).
- Astrocytes Expressing Nef Promote Apoptosis and SMAD Signaling in Neurons
- Experimental Biology, 2013 (April, 20-24, 2013) Boston, MA.
- UPR-Mayaguez 3rd Annual Undergraduate Symposium (May 5, 2013)
- Tittle: Role of Nef in modulating actin in Astrocytes
- Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, 2013. (November 13-16, 2013)
- 34nd Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 49th Junior Technical Meeting. (March 29, 2014) UPR-Cayey
- Tittle: Determination of the IC50 and LD50 of Calcium Sulfide (CaS) Clusters on Malignant Carcinoma and Normal Fibroblasts Cell Lines
- Experimental Biology 2014 (APRIL, 2014) San Diego, CA
- Tiitle: HIV X4 Viruses as Potential Agents in the Pathophysiology of HIV-associated Pulmonary Hypertension
- Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, 2014. (November, 2014) San Antonio, TX
- 35th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 50th Junior Technical Meeting. (March 14, 2015) UPR-Rio Piedras
- Experimental Biology 2015 (March, 2015). Boston, MA
Publications:
In Progress