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