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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)
  • 34^nd Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 49^th 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)
  • 35^th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting & 50^th Junior Technical Meeting. (March 14, 2015) UPR-Rio Piedras
  • Experimental Biology 2015 (March, 2015). Boston, MA
  • UPR-Ponce 7^th Annual Research Congress (May 8, 2015)

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