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2004 at AAAS Caribbean Division

Outline

          Services to AAAS members
Seminar Series, Robert Laurus Award, Travel Awards, Conferences and Symposia, Webpage

 
          Outreach to the Community
–   K-12 Science Clubs, Student Science Congresses, Lucy Gaspar’s Math and Science Teacher Award, Seminars, Town legislature meetings

 Seminar Series

         Sponsor or co-sponsor seminars (15)

 Pharmacology, Education, Environmental, Health and Politics, Molecular Biology, Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Philosophy, HIV, Cancer, Dengue, Neurobiology

   Mayo Clinic, Columbia University, MD Anderson Research Cancer Center, Duke University, UPR-MSC, University of Louisville, UPR-RP, CBO, Vanderbilt University, University of Massachusetts, University of Wuerzburg, Germany


Pharmacogenetics, Genetic Polymorphisms and Function

Richard M. Weinshilboum, M.D.

Department Molecular Biology and Experimental Therapeutics

Mayo Clinic, Minnesota


The less I teach, the more they learn

Josefina Arce, Ph.D.

Professor, Director, AlaCima Program

Department of Chemistry

Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus


Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq

Dr. Richard Garfield

Professor

School of Nursing

Columbia University

Pharmacogenetics in the future of laboratory medicine

Roland Valdés, Jr., Ph.D.

Senior Vice Chairman

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

University of Louisville


Physical and functional connections between RNA polymerase II and the pre-messenger

RNA splicing machinery

Mariano García-Blanco, Ph.D.

Professor

Duke University


Liposomal All-Trans-Retinoic-Acid in

Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia:

From Bench to Bedside

Gabriel López, MD

Professor

MD Anderson Research Cancer Center

Houston, Texas


"Alternativas Energéticas y su Costo Ambiental"

Mr. Juan Rosario

Misión Industrial 



Underwater Public Beach Pollution

Harry Hauck

Aquatics Professional

San Juan, PR



MR Imaging and Spectroscopy Studies of HIV Dementia

Dr. Calum Avison

Vanderbilt University Medical Center



Oxidative DNA Damage by Photo-Generated OXYL

Radicals (Photo-Fenton Chemistry)

Waldemar Adam, Ph.D.

Professor

Institute of Organic Chemistry

University of Wuerzburg, Germany



Caracterización de la respuesta de expresión

genética en las células hospederas del virus de Dengue

Dr. Irene Bosch

Assistant Professor

Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research

University of Massachusetts Medical School


Robert Laurus Award

Participation of students from different areas of resarch:
- Engineering
- Biology
- Dentistry
- Neurobiology
- Anatomy
- Biochemistry
- Physiology


  • Miss Edna Suárez-Castillo - First Prize
EPENDYMIN a gene involved in regeneration and neuroplasticity in vertebrates

      Ph.D. student from Colombia, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras Campus
  • Miss Anabel Puig - Second Prize



Estrogen and Kappa Opiod receptors

- Ph.D. Student, Department of Physiology, University of Puerto Rico-MS

Travel Awards for AAAS members
  •   Travel awards to present at scientific meetings in the Caribbean and the U.S. - up to $400

Dr. Jorge Colón
AAAS Member

Dr. Alan Preston
AAAS Member since 1986

 

Conferences and Symposia

         ESPCoR/AAAS Annual Meeting

         Third Symposium on the Karst Zone

         XX Ecology Symposium

 Outreach

K-12 Science Clubs

         Advisor to PR Science Clubs Association

         Participation in the NSF Math & Science Grant Program (AlaCima)

         Participation in Science Clubs meetings and conferences (seminars and workshops)

         Partial financial support

Science Club Conference
San Juan, PR


XXX Congress of PR Junior Science




Lucy Gaspar’s Math and Science Teaching Award

Seminars to the Community

         Biotechnology is for everybody, not only for scientists.

    Dr. Margarita Irizarry

         Naturation process in the tropics.

    Dr. Carlos Severino

         Nanotechnology and Fuel Cells.

    Dr. Carlos Cabrera

Town Legislature Meetings

         Proposed meetings with local politicians to teach them basic science concepts that could have impact in the community

    Cloning

    HIV and Hepatitis C Pandemic

    Nanotechnology

    Ecology