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Name: Luis Rivera

Faculty: Biology

Major: Biotechnology

Active Member: Summer, 2012

Current Status: Currently Enrolled in 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

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)
• 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- University of Minnesota Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Programs
• Summer 2015- University of Wisconsin. Madisson, WI.

Presentations:

• Tittle: Fear conditioning depresses the intrinsic excitability of infralimbic neurons in adult rats
  • Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, 2013. (November 13-16, 2013)
  • 22^nd Puerto Rico Neuroscience Conference (December 7, 2013)
  • Experimental Biology 2014 (APRIL, 2014)
• Tittle: Development of Intraspinal Serotonergic Neurons in Zebrafish
  • Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, 2014. (November, 2014)
  • 23^rd Annual Puerto Rico Neuroscience Conference 2014 (December, 2014)

Publications:

In Progress