Ph.D. Graduate Student, Biochemistry Department University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine michael.rivera1@upr.edu Currently I am a Ph.D. graduate student in the Biomedical Program at the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences campus. The fall of 2014, after obtaining my B.S. in the Natural Sciences Interdisciplinary Study Program (minor in…
Ph.D. Graduate Student, Biochemistry Department University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine hector.jirau@upr.edu I’m currently a graduate student at the University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus School of Medicine, in the Biochemistry department. I’ve always been fascinated by Science, specially the molecular side of the world, which led me to study and find out about…
Graduate student University of Puerto Rico Center of Environmental & Toxicological Research jarline.encarnacion@upr.edu As a graduate student I am involved in the area of Toxicology and Pharmacology. During my undergraduate formation I had several experiences across the field of academic, industry and government. I worked at Hewlett-Packard as a member of the Environmental Emergency Planning…
My research interests are in the transcriptional regulation of certain genes, specifically those involved with the detoxification of air pollution in the lungs. The genes are MHCII, CIITA, and the family of cytochrome P450s. I am interested in Asthma and how the transcriptional regulation leads to its large prevalence in Puerto Rican industrial areas. I…