Rafael Rivera

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Name: Rafael Rivera

Faculty: Biology

Major: Biotechnology

Active Member: 2011- Present

Expected Graduation: May, 2016

Current Status: UPR-Ponce PRISE member

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. Cayey, PR)

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
  • ABRCMS 2014. Convention. San Antonio, TX. November, 2014
  • Experimental Biology 2015. Convention. Boston, MA. April, 2015

Research Internships:

  • Summer 2012. Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences with Dr. Wilfredo Hernandez. Ponce, Puerto Rico. July-August.
  • Summer 2013. University of Michigan with Dr. Scott Barolo.  Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • Summer 2014. University of Michigan SROP with Dr. Vernon Carruthers. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • Summer 2015. University of California Berkeley. San Francisco, CA.

Presentations:

  • Tittle: Cis-regulatory Control of Hedgehog Target Genes
    • 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)
    • APS Special Session Experimental Biology 2014 (APRIL, 2014)
    • Experimental Biology 2014 (APRIL, 2014)
  • Tittle: Mutational Analysis of a Putative Drug Resistance Transporter in the Human Parasite Toxoplasma gondii
    • Univ. of Michigan Summer Symposium. Summer, 2014
    • Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, 2014. (November, 2014)
    • 35th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 50th Junior Technical Meeting. (March 14, 2015) UPR-Rio Piedras
    • Experimental Biology 2015 (March, 2015). Boston, MA
    • UPR-Ponce 7th Annual Research Congress (May 8, 2015)

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