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Name: Roberto Morales

Faculty: Biology

Major: Biomedical Sciences

Active Member: Summer, 2012

Current Status: Currently Enrolled in Biomedical Sciences 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)
• 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)
• 22nd Annual Puerto Rico Neuroscience Conference 2013 (December, 2013)
• HPD Research Day by NOVA School of Medicine. Ponce, PR
• 34th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 49t^h Junior Technical Meeting. (Univ. del Turabo. March, 2014. Gurabo. PR)
• 35th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 50t^h Junior Technical Meeting. (Univ. of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus. March, 2015. San Juan, PR)

Research Internships:

• Summer 2013- Ponce Health Sciences University
• Summer 2014- Albert Einstein College of Medicine Summer Undergraduate Research Program
• Summer 2015- SCRIPBS Research Institute. La Joya, CA.
• Summer 2016- University of Rochester. Rochester,  NY

Presentations:

• Title: Opioid Agonist and Antagonist Effect after Fear Conditioning on the Expression of Mu Opioid Receptors from Female Rat
  • Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, 2013. (November 13-16, 2013)
  • 22th Annual Puerto Rico Neuroscience Conference 2013 (December, 7, 2013).        Ponce, PR
  • HPD Research Day Sponsored By NOVA School of Medicine. (February 14, 2014)
  • Fourth Annual Meeting Puerto Rico Physiological Society (February 8th, 2014)
• Title: Sex differences in the expression of μ opioid receptor in areas critical for fear conditioning and extinction learning
  • Experimental Biology 2014 (APRIL, 2014)
  • Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, 2014. (November, 2014)
• Title: Characterization of Dendritogenesis in Cortical Pyramidal Layer V Neurons in Niemann-Pick Type C Disease Using Yellow Fluorescent Protein
  • Experimental Biology 2015 (March, 2015). Boston, MA
• Title: Differential expression of Fkbp5 during Fear Conditioningand Extinction in IL and Amygdala (Poster)
  • Puerto Rico Physiological Society Symposium 2016. San Juan Medical Sciences UPR Campus.
  • PR Neuroscience 2015. December, 2015
• Title: Role of Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Drug Addiction
  • Summer Research Symposium. San Diego, USA. Summer, 2015.
  • 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). Boston, MA

Publications:

• April 2016
  The FASEB Journal
  vol. 30 no. 1 Supplement 518.4
• Front. Behav. Neurosci. 9:129. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00129April 2015
• The FASEB Journal
  vol. 29 no. 1 Supplement LB637
• April 2014
  The FASEB Journal
  vol. 28 no. 1 Supplement LB557