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Sociedad de Microbiólogos de Puerto Rico-Convención Semi Annual: “Facing Challenges in the Clinical Scenario”

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La Sociedad de Microbiólogos de Puerto Rico te invita a su Convención
Semi Annual:  “Facing Challenges in the Clinical Scenario”

Con los Reconocidos Conferenciantes

•    Dra. Sonia Saavedra:  Resistant Bugs in the 21st Century - A New
Clinical Challenge

•    Dra. Idalí Martínez:  Dengue and West Nile Viruses

•    Dra. Ana M. del Llano:  No Cure for Septic Shock? - An Immunological Overview

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Internado de Verano en la estación biológica El Verde en El Yunque

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Undergraduate Internship in Tropical Ecology and Evolution – Summer 2013
University of Puerto Rico


We are now accepting applications for the Summer 2013 internship in Tropical Ecology and Evolution at El Verde Field Station, Puerto Rico.  The internship will run from June 3 - August 9, 2013. 

Application deadline: 28 February 2013

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$1 million prize from Department of Defense for algorithm that IDs organisms from complex jumbles of DNA

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Identify Organisms from a Stream of DNA Sequences

Challenge Overview

This Challenge seeks innovative algorithms to analyze samples that contain mixed segments of genetic sequence from next-generation sequencing instruments and report the identities of each organism represented in the sample and characterization of all non-host organisms.  Technical details and requirements are available in the full description. 

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Former Science Trust expert calls for overhaul of R&D approach

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JAIME SANTIAGO

If Puerto Rico is going to have any chance of creating a biotechnology sector that creates quality research and independent-minded scientists for the island's biotech apparatus, the approach to research being conducted at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) must be revamped. That is where a former trustee of the Science, Technology & Research Trust, Mariano García-Blanco, is saying we have to eliminate the political ebb and flow that propitiates lack of continuity and affects the quality of research at the university.

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Fortuño Administration steamrolls the Puerto Rico Science Trust

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Ely Acevedo Denis

Recent appointment in the Puerto Rico Science Trust's Board raise questions about the politicization of this entity supposed to promote knowledge-based economic growth in Puerto Rico.

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