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  • UPR Outreach Applied Sciences Symposium with Unique Brains Organization

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    Friday, 11 March 2022 10:47

    BioXFEL is sponsoring an Outreach Symposium to engage prospective students in the Puerto Rican Community. This symposium is organized by “Unique Brains: Connecting the Dots”, an organization with the goal of providing disadvantaged communities with information, opportunities and experience in the fields of science including, but not limited to, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math, Art, Psychology and Neuroscience. The Applied Sciences Symposium has the goal to help students embark on their careers in research, academia, and/or industry. Our objective is to give students an overview of these fields, share experiences from faculty and students, and provide them with hands-on workshops.

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    Where: UPR Mayagüez Biology Department, B390

    When: May 2nd (high school), May 3rd (undergraduate)

    Coordinators: Nashaley Adorno De León and Gabriela Díaz Figueroa

    Day 1:Applied Science for the rising generation

    Audience: High School Students
    Objective: These talks will be oriented to high school students, to give them an idea of the different opportunities available, and how to prepare for them. We envision the first three talks to be given by faculty sharing their experiences and career aspects. The other three talks will be from students who pair with the fields of the first three talks to demonstrate to the audience how they are achieving their goals and advice.
    Conference: Provide six talks and two workshops from faculty and students that are involved and/or have experience in the different fields.
    Topics of interest:

    • ●  Industry

    • ●  Careers in behavior and social sciences

    • ●  Programming Workshop

    • ●  Research project Workshop

      Day 2: Research

      Audience: Undergraduate Students
      Objective: These talks will be oriented to undergraduate students, with a focus on careers they can pursue and opportunities they can take within their careers. We envision the talks to be mostly given by faculty and concentrated on research and hands-on opportunities in the different departments within campus.
      Conference: Provide six talks and two workshops from faculty and students that are involved and/or have experience in the different fields.
      Topics of interest:

    • ●  Industry

    • ●  Careers in behavior and social sciences

    • ●  Programming Workshop

    • ●  Research project Workshop

     

  • BioXFEL Director Eaton Lattman TEDx Talk

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    Thursday, 17 March 2016 15:07

    Most of the pictures that we have of molecules are static – atoms represented as balls linked together by connectors that represent chemical bonds. But molecules, especially those in biology, move when performing functions. When we bend a finger, at the micro level there are little motor proteins taking tiny little steps that add up to the large-scale motion.

  • Structural biologist named president of UK Royal Society

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    Friday, 20 March 2015 09:17

     A Nobel-prizewinning structural biologist will be the next president of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's pre-eminent scientific institution. Venkatraman (Venki) Ramakrishnan will take over from geneticist Paul Nurse, also a Nobel laureate, on 1 December.

  • Mapping Conformational Landscape Through Crystallography

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    Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:14

    Determining the interconverting conformations of dynamic proteins in atomic detail is a major challenge for structural biology. Conformational heterogeneity in the active site of the dynamic enzyme cyclophilin A (CypA) has been previously linked to its catalytic function. Here we compare the conformational ensembles of CypA by fixed-target X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) crystallography and multitemperature synchrotron crystallography.

  • 3-D snapshot of protein highlights potential drug target for breast cancer

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    Wednesday, 18 March 2015 13:20

    3-D snapshot of protein highlights potential drug target for breast cancerThe genome of a cell is under constant attack, suffering DNA damage that requires an army of repair mechanisms to keep the cell healthy and alive. Understanding the behavior of the enzymes defending these assaults helps determine how - and where - cancer gets its foothold and flourishes. New research published in an Advance Online Publication of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology shows that one of these enzymes - human DNA polymerase theta (POLQ) - may be a promising drug therapy target for inhibiting breast cancer.