Ciencia Puerto Rico

Nací, crecí en Puerto Rico y en 2003 obtuve un B.S. en Biología en la UPR-Mayaguez. Finalicé estudios doctorales en el 2009 en biofísica en Vanderbilt University, determinando estructuras tridimensionales de macromoléculas utilizando microscopía electrónica criogénica. Completé un postdoctorado en The University of Western Ontario en el area de bioquímica y resonancia magnética nuclear en el verano de 2011. Luego de trabajar como microscopista en NYC, volvi a mi alma mater graduada para supervisar un laboratorio de microscopia electronica criogenica. Ahora me desempeño como supervisora de un laboratorio de microscopía electrónica en Cornell University.

I was born and raised in Puerto Rico, where I completed a B.S. in biology in 2003 at UPR-Mayaguez. In 2009 I obtained my PhD in Biophysics from Vanderbilt University. My thesis focused on determining 3D structures of macromolecules by electron cryo-microscopy. I finished a postdoctoral fellowship in biochemistry and NMR at The University of Western Ontario in the summer of 2011. After working as a staff scientist in cryoEM at the New York Structural Biology Center, I joined my graduate alma mater to manage the cryoEM facility. Currently I work as a Facility Manager for electron microscopy at Cornell University.