Department of Biomedical Sciences
323 SMed
1035 University Dr
Duluth, MN 55812
PhD, University of Texas Medical Branch
Major: Biochemistry
BS, University of South Florida
Major: Clinical Chemistry
BA, University of South Florida
Major: Biology
AA, Other, Miami-Dade College
Major: Liberal Arts
1) Endocrinology: Investigating the role of pituitary hormones as immunomodulators and regulators of development.
2) Lyme disease: Characterizing the entrance of Borrelia burgdorferi into macrophage by non-opsonic mechanisms.
3) Development of active learn tools to teach biomedical concepts
endocrinology
lyme disease
Mentor Training, University of Minnesota NIH Proposal Preparation Program, 2014
Scholarship: Facilitation Role for Entering Mentoring Workshop, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013
Awarded Scholarship, SACNAS 2010 Summer Leadership Institute, 2010
Travel Scholarship, Washington University School of Medicine, 2006
Travel Scholarship, Washington University School of Medicine, 2002
Awarded Scholarship, Workshop: Write Winning Grants, The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and The Minority Access to Research Careers, 1999
Minnesota Nominee for the 1996 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (National), 1996
Travel Award, Minorities Affairs Committee of the ASCB, 1992
Awarded Scholarship, Monoclonal Antibodies and Immunocytochemistry, Minorities Affairs Committee, ASCB, 1990
Graduate Research Assistantship, 1986
Gip A. Hudson Memorial Award, 1986 National Student Research Forum, 1986
Shirley Patricia Parker Memorial Award, 1985
ASCB Minority Affairs Committee
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for Immunology
The Association of American Indian and Alaska Native Professors
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Endocrine Society
American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science
American Chemistry Society
American Society for Cell Biology