Experience

• 

  Convelo Therapeutics, Inc

  • United States

  • Senior Scientist

    • Oct 2020 - Present
    • United States

• 

  Institute for Myelin and Glia Exploration

  • Buffalo, New York

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    • Jul 2017 - Oct 2020
    • Buffalo, New York

    Iron Metabolism in the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems.

• 

  Hunter James Kelly Research Institute

  • Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

  • Graduate Assistant

    • May 2013 - May 2017
    • Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

    My research focuses on brain development, studying the development of the oligodendroglial cell lineages in the central nervous system in normal, mutant and transgenic mice. The primary focus in the laboratory is on Voltage Operated Calcium Channels that regulate specification, migration and differentiation of these glial cells. Investigating the regulatory and signaling mechanisms that control its differentiation and the production of myelin is relevant to our understanding of brain development and of adult pathologies such as multiple sclerosis.

• 

  University of Puerto Rico

  • Puerto Rico

  • Undergraduate Researcher

    • Jun 2009 - Jul 2012
    • Puerto Rico

    Department of Chemistry“Novel asymmetric Diels-Alders reaction by utilizing B- [(E)-2, 4-substituted -1,3-butadienyl-10-trimethylsilyl- 9- borabicyclo [3.3.2] decane. A new route for isomerically pure heterocycles”

• 

  Rutgers University

  • New Brunswick, NJ

  • Undergraduate Summer Researcher

    • May 2011 - Aug 2011
    • New Brunswick, NJ

    Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology“Surfactant protein-D regulation of macrophage phenotype is controlled by Nitric Oxide mediated modification”

• 

  University of Kentucky

  • Lexington, Kentucky

  • Undergraduate Summer Researcher

    • Jun 2010 - Aug 2010
    • Lexington, Kentucky

    Department of Toxicology“The effect of Se and cigarette smoke on pancreas cell proliferation”