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Mentor: Valerie Wojna, MD
Affiliation: UPR Río Piedras
Project title: TBA
Project Description: Studying the different ways fungi can impact the nervous system via the body’s mycobiome and inhalation of spores by analyzing the contents of cerebrospinal fluid, saliva and blood from HIV patients concerning diagnostics such as HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND).
Published work and presentations
Published Paper: In progress.
Presentation:
“Comparison of potential anxiolytic effects of an organic extract of the brown macroalgae Stypopodium zonale in male and female Drosophila melanogaster using the Dark Light Box Test” Puerto Rico Neuroscience Conference in November 2020 (Bachelor)
“Discovery and Development of Anxiolytic Agents from Tropical Marine Macroalgae” Puerto Rico Neuroscience Conference in December 2022 (Bachelor)
Fun fact or hobby: I enjoy yoga and mushroom foraging 🙂