Director
Dr. José A. Lasalde Program Director jose.lasalde@upr.edu Dr. José A. Lasalde Dominicci is the Program Director of the COBRE Center for Neuroplasticity at the University of Puerto Rico and a Professor of Biology at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. His research is focused on: (1) the structure function relationships of nicotinic receptors,…
Core Director
Dr. Mark W. Miller is the Associate Director of the COBRE Center for Neuroplasticity at the University of Puerto Rico and a Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus. His research is focused on understanding the structure and function of neural circuits involved in the central pattern generators (CPGs) and control of motor behavior.
Administrative Support Office
Faculty Development Programs
Attended the 8th Latin American School of Computational Neuroscience (LASCON 2020),
Was invited to chair the Regulation of Homeostatic Behaviors session at the 2019
Dr. Jean A. King, Dean of Arts & Sciences, and Dr. Arne Gericke, Department Head, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Institutional Capacity Building
Dr. M. Chiara Manzini</strong Neurobiology & Cell Biology Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Presented a seminar “Neural circuit reconstruction underlying a behavioral sequence at synaptic resolution”.
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, UC Davis MIND Institute, presented a seminar