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Name: Lysmarie Figueroa Rios

Faculty: Biology

Major: Biotechnology

Active Member: Summer, 2013

Current Status: Currently Enrolled in Biology Bachelor Degree at UPR-Ponce with a minor in Biotechnology

U.S. Meetings & Conferences:

• ABRCMS 2013. Convention. Nashville, Tennessee. November, 2013
• ABRCMS 2014. Convention. San Antonio, TX. November, 2014
• Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, 2015. (November, 2015) Seattle,WA.
• Experimental Biology 2016 (April, 2016). San Diego, CA.

P.R. Meetings and Conferences

• PR Neuroscience Conference 2012, Centro Sila Maria Calderon, Rio Piedras
• 33^rd Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 48^th Junior Technical Meeting. (Univ. del Turabo. March 9, 2013. Gurabo. PR)
• UPR-Mayaguez 3rd Annual Undergraduate Symposium (May, 2013. Mayaguez, PR)
• Puerto Rico Physiologycal Society Meeting (PRPS. February, 2014)
• 34th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 49t^h Junior Technical Meeting. (Univ. del Turabo. March, 2014. Cayey. PR)
• 22nd Annual Puerto Rico Neuroscience Conference 2014 (December, 2014)
• 35th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 50t^h Junior Technical Meeting. (Univ. of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus. March, 2015. San Juan, PR)
• 36th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 51st Junior Technical Meeting. (March 5, 2016).  PUCPR. Ponce, PR. Experimental Biology 2016 (April, 2016). San Diego, CA.

Research Internships:

• Summer 2014- Syracuse Biomaterials Institute. Syracuse, NY, USA
• Summer 2015- Mississippi State University. Starkville MS, USA
• Summer 2016- University of Wisconsin Madison. Wisconsin, USA

Presentations:

Tittle: Screening of alcohol-inducible transgenic poplar trees and quantification of transgene expression

•  Undergraduate Research Symposium  at Syracuse University 2014 L.C. Smith College of Science and Engineering August 8th , 2014 at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.

• Syracuse Biomaterials Institute REU Program 2014 Milton Atrium at Life Sciences Complex and Center for Science and Technology  August 7th , 2014 at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.

• Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, 2014. (November, 2014)

• 35^th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 50^th Junior Technical Meeting. (March 14, 2015) UPR-Rio Piedras

Tittle: Characterization of the Unique Viscoelastic Properties of the Mitral Valve Anterior Leaflet

• Summer 2015 Undergraduate Research Symposium. Mississippi State University
• PRISE 3rd Annual Symposium. August, 2015
• Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, 2015. (November, 2015) Seattle,WA.
• 36th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 51st Junior Technical Meeting. (March 5, 2016).  PUCPR. Ponce, PR.
• Experimental Biology 2016 (April, 2016). San Diego, CA.

Publications:

• Characterization of the Unique Viscoelastic Properties of the Mitral Valve Anterior Leaflet.
  • April 2016
    The FASEB Journal
    vol. 30 no. 1 Supplement 558.1