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Encouraging Careers In Food Security and Safety
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Encouraging Careers In Food Security and Safety
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    • University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez Campus
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      • First ECaFSS Student Symposium 2016-2017
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    • Role Model Seminars
      • Academic Year 2016-2017
        • Dr. Lydia Rivera Vargas
        • Dr. Alberto Pantoja
        • Dr. Esbal Jiménez Cabán
      • Academic Year 2017-2018
        • Ms. Mildred Sosa
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          • Resume Workshop
      • Academic Year 2018-2019
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          • Forest Pathology
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          • TECAN Biophotometer
          • Interview and Linked In Workshops
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  • ECaFSS Scholars
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      • First ECaFSS Student Symposium 2016-2017
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        • Dr. Lydia Rivera Vargas
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        • Ms. Mildred Sosa
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    • Workshops
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        • Workshops for Faculty
          • Moodle Workshop
        • Workshops for Students
          • English Workshop
      • Academic Year 2017-2018
        • New Trends in Science
          • Metagenomics Workshop
          • GMO’s and Climate Change workshops
        • Workshops for Faculty
          • Publication Ethics Workshop
          • Integral Ecology Workshop
          • Online Education Workshop
        • Workshops for Students
          • Resume Workshop
      • Academic Year 2018-2019
        • New Trends in Science
          • Forest Pathology
        • Professional Development
          • TECAN Biophotometer
          • Interview and Linked In Workshops
          • Orientation on Summer Internships
          • Discussion: How to Speak in Public
          • Workshops at Collaborating Institutions
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Academic Year 2016 - 2017
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  • Dr. Alberto Pantoja

  • Dr. Esbal Jiménez Cabán

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Yesenia I. Vélez Negrón

  Yesenia I. Vélez Negrón ECaFSS Scholar since: January 2017 Education: B.S. Crop Protection – UPRM Expected Graduation Date: May 2020 Research: Yesenia I. Vélez Negrón has actively participated in investigations of Phytopathology areas, as fungus, oomycetes and bacterias, being advised by Dr. Lydia Rivera and Ing. Lorena Simbaña. The investigation project centers in the…

Víctor Montalvo Carlo

  Víctor Montalvo Carlo ECaFSS Scholar since: August 2018 Research: Endophytic fungi associated with descending death and necrosis in Mangifera indicates the Botryosphaeriaceae family encompass genres and species of fungi typically endophytic and pathogenic opportunists, meaning, those that become pathogenic under stress conditions in the plant. They have been reported to be affecting the foliar…

Paola Álvarez

Paola Álvarez Undergraduate Student Department of Animal Science Paola Álvarez obtained a B.S. in Animal Science (2019) from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus. She joined the ECaFSS project in 2017 under the supervision of Dr. Leyda Ponce de León where she worked on the effect of ginger powder in the keeping quality of…

Jian M. Zayas Declet

Jian M. Zayas Declet ECaFSS Scholar since: August 2019 Expected Graduation Date: May 2021 Research: The job consists on elaborating methods of eradication of endophytes organisms in tissue culture of Dioscorea rotundata. These following processes were developed under the same job: isolate, identify and eliminate phytopathogenic organisms such as: bacteria and fungi to obtain tissues…

Christopher Rivera Torres

  Christopher Rivera Torres ECaFSS Scholar since: January 2017 Expected Graduation Date: December 2019 Research: Susceptibility of Colletotrichum spp. to Antimicrobial Peptides and Combinatorial Treatments. Christopher Rivera Torres currently works with Dra. Patricia Ortíz in collaboration with Dr. Lydia I. Rivera, Dr. Merari Feliciano and Ms. Lorena Simbaña in the investigation project. The principal objective…

Lydia I. Rivera Vargas
Lydia I. Rivera Vargas, Ph.D.

PI of the NIFA ECaFSS Project

Lydia I. Rivera Vargas, Ph.D. Plant Pathologist/Professor Dept.Agro-Environmental Sciences University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Mayaguez, P.R. 00681 Tel.(787) 265-3852 ó (787) 832-4040 ext. 2351, 2313 Fax:(787) 265-3884 e-mail: lydiai.rivera@upr.edu Dr. Lydia I. Rivera-Vargas has a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from The Ohio State University and a M.S. in Biology (Mycology) from UPRM. She is the PI…

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Angel Otero

Angel M. Otero Franqui ECaFSS Scholar since: January 2019 Education: M.S. Science and Food Technology – UPRM Research: Microbiological quality of high-fat and partially-skimmed pasteurized milk and its effect on shelf-life. Several microbiological and chemical tests will be carried out to observe the effect of the microbiological community in pasteurized milk and to observe which…

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Encouraging Careers In Food Security and Safety
This work is supported by "Encouraging careers in food security and safety: A multi-institutional collaborative approach in Puerto Rico" program, grant no. 2016-38422-25541 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture."

ECaFSS 2019

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