January:

1st

Students travel for MIT Workshop in Quantitative Biology
All day travel from San Juan to Boston: HAPPY 2022 !

9th

Students return from MIT Workshop in Quantitative Biology
All day travel from Boston to San Juan

13th

Computational Chemistry Workshop: Do your own biomolecule!!
UPR Mayaguez Computing Center, Chemistry Department

20th

Stephen K. Burley, M.D., D.Phil; <sburley@proteomics.rutgers.edu> (Rutgers University; Computational Biology)

27th

Sagar Khare; <khare@chem.rutgers.edu> (Rutgers University; Computational Biology)

29-31th

Individual meeting with Dr. Castro regarding your in campus and off campus research

Individual Development Plan Dr. Lopez Garriga

February:

3rd

Computational Chemistry Workshop: Do your own biomolecule!!
UPR Mayaguez Computing Center, Chemistry Department

Re-scheduled to March 3, 2022

10th

RCR 5: Coral, Eduardo; Gabriela Leader

17th

RCR 6: Special Reads (second time)

a. The fight against fake-paper factories that churn out sham science (nature.com)
Andrea Flores Lead Discussion, Initate this Thursday Discussion
b. Errors in genetic sequences mar hundreds of studies (nature.com)
Gabriel Jimenez Lead Discussion

24th

RCR 7: Darlene, Valerie, Angeliz Leader

Theme 16: Research Reproducibility
case_studies-2016.pdf (nih.gov)
I; II; II Darlene and Angeliz
IV, V, VIA, VIB Valerie and Angeliz

Addressing Rigor and Reproducibility
Training and Other Resources | grants.nih.gov
Module 1 Gabriel and Ephraim
Module 2 Gabriel and Ephraim

March:

3rd

Present your computational results on biochemistry

Computational Chemistry Workshop: Do your own biomolecule!!
UPR Mayaguez Computing Center, Chemistry Department

10th

RCR 8: Xavier, Natalia , Ephraim (Coral and Eduardo and Gabriela)

RCR Casebook: Data Acquisition and Management | ORI – The Office of Research Integrity (hhs.gov)


Xavier: Case One: Creating a Public Archive of Sensitive Data | ORI – The Office of Research Integrity
(hhs.gov)


Natalia: Case Two: Data Sharing Fever | ORI – The Office of Research Integrity (hhs.gov)


Ephraim: Case Three: I Really Can’t Acquire Important Data? | ORI – The Office of Research Integrity
(hhs.gov)


Coral and Eduardo (Gabriela Leader): Role Play: Genome Data Breach* | ORI – The Office of Research
Integrity (hhs.gov)


Addressing Rigor and Reproducibility
Training and Other Resources | grants.nih.gov


Module 3 Coral and Gabriela


Module 4 Eduardo and Gabriela

17th

5-minute meetings with Dr. Castro

24th

ACS National Meeting, San Diego, California 20-24

31th

Society of Toxicology’s 61st Annual Meeting, March 27-31, 2022.

April:

7th

Experimental Biology, April 2 to 5, Philidalphia

21th

Webinar: Applications of immunotherapies in cancer

Webinar:  Introduction to In Vivo Platforms for Cancer Immunotherapy (recording date: 3/04/2021) (jax.org)

28th

Career Opportunities with a PhD
On line Round Table Discussion
Dr. Samuel Hernandez (Ph.D. in biostatisits from Yale; Amgen, PR)
Dr Rosita Rivera (NIH pre doctoral grant recipient; Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Case Western; Provost at McDaniel College)
William (MD PhD from Harvard; Massachusetts Hospital)

May:

5th

Your Spring Term Research Presentation

12th

Final Exam

19th

Introduction to Python programming!!

27th

Travel arrangements for Summer Off Campus Research Experience