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Iguanas and their favorite menus

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Scientists from the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras make a surprising discovery about the diet of iguanas.

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The neural basis of fear

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Scientists at the University of Puerto Rico recently publishes a study that helps us understand how the prefrontal cortex integrates information from other parts of our brains to regulate our fear response.

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Pressure and volcanos

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A new technique detects slight deformations on a volcano's surface caused by the pressure created by magma as it approaches the Earth's surface.

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Puerto Rico will gain a new island

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According to geologists, during the next half million years, the sea will enter the Lajas Valley, creating a new island in the archipelago of Puerto Rico.

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Students represent Puerto Rico at national scientific conferences

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Hundreds of Puerto Rican students attended the SACNAS and ABRCMS conferences, the two biggest scientific meetings for minorities in sciences. Below you can find a list of the students whose work was recognized. Congratulations!

A continuación el listado de los premiados

Bioquímica – Premio por Afiche (Poster award)

Eva Marie Quijano Carde, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayagüez

Kevin Colón‐Negrón, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayagüez

Ismael Santiago, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Ponce

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Scientists at the Medical Sciences Campus study the basis of fear

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A study recently published in Neuron by scientists in Dr. Gregory Quirk's laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico investigated the role of the prefrontal cortex in the integration and regulation of of fear.

 

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Pushing the boundaries of neuroscience

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The newly established Puerto Rico Center for Environmental Neuroscience (PRCEN) uses a multidisciplinary approach “to understand the complex interplay of molecular, cellular, organismal, and ecosystem dynamics faced by organisms under the increasingly stressful conditions created by human impacts on the environment,” explained the director of the Institute of Neurobiology, Dr. Steve Treistman. 

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New look at the ecology of invasions

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Wilson González Espada

Conventionally, people think that invading species are deleterious to an ecosystem. However, scientists are challenging that paradigm.

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