Pilots - Seeds Director

Dr. Walter I. Silva Ortiz Pilots – Seeds Director walter.silva@upr.edu Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived…

Dr. Jorge D. Miranda NIEF Director jorge.miranda3@upr.edu Dr. Jorge D. Miranda is the Director of the Neuroimaging and Electrophysiology Facility and Professor of Physiology at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus. His research is in the area of cell survival and nerve regeneration after trauma to the central nervous system. Spinal cord injury…

Administrative 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.

Program 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,…

Assistant Professor

Dr. José E. Lizardi Ortiz is the Facility Coordinator of the COBRE Center for Neuroplasticity

Steven

Chromatin remodeling during butterfly brain development

Jose

Role of Nicotinic Alpha 7 Autoreceptors in Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons

Bianca

Polymorphism in neuroplasticity-related genes and its association with anxiety and depressive symptoms severity in Caribbean Hispanic patients

Stefanie

Establishing an experimental model for probing the neural and molecular basis of abnormally repetitive behavior

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Assistant Professor

Institute of Neurobiology, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus