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PRIMER invites you to our annual symposium at Universidad del Turabo

PRIMER invites you to our annual symposium at Universidad del Turabo

Welcome

Nowadays, disciplines seek to combine innovative solutions to face environmental challenges to life on Earth. Everyday, profound scientific initiatives disclose microbial properties that are valuable to understand and to deal with environmental constraints that mankind has made. Therefore, we are convening international and local researchers, within an interdisciplinary scenario, to discuss microbial capabilities and diversity with potential for novel products. We take this opportunity to examine scientific advances towards environmental balances, sustainable development, and societal progress with lessons for innovation. New discoveries are achieved by searching for frontiers in environmental microbiology. 

We, at Universidad del Turabo and the Puerto Rico Institute for Microbial Ecology Research (PRIMER), recognize our responsibility to search for and carry out research that will provide solutions to environmental constraints and descriptions of novel and intriguing biological phenomena. This is a task for multiple disciplines and a commitment for the global scientific community to achieve transformations.


The PRIMER pursues a better understanding of microbial roles within the Neotropical environment with global impact. We invite you to be part of this journey:


Eighth Symposium
Frontiers in Environmental Microbiology
interconnecting spheres
Friday, March 13, 2015 • Universidad del Turabo • Gurabo, PR
8 AM • Museo y Centro de Estudios Humanísticos, UT

Program

Scientific Program

Conveners:  Dr. Sharon A. Cantrell and Dr. José R. Pérez-Jiménez, Universidad del Turabo, PR


8:00 am        Registration

8:45 am        Welcome Remarks
                        Dr. Roberto Lorán, Vice-Chancellor, Universidad del Turabo, PR
                        Ms. Yomarie Bernier, President, PRIMER Student Chapter

9:00 am        Introduction to the Symposium
                  Dr. José R. Pérez-Jiménez, Director PRMIER, Universidad del Turabo, PR

9:15 am         Dr. Alejandro Ruiz Acevedo Lecture
                       Plugging Biology into the Energy Grid: A Grand Research Challenge
                            Dr. Timothy Donohue; Professor of Bacteriology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and President of the American Society for Microbiology

10:15 am         Current and Future Trends in Fungal Ecology
                         Dr. D. Jean Lodge; Mycologist at US Forest Service, and President of the Mycological Society of America

10:45 am        Recess

11:oo am        The Diagnostic Challenge of Dengue and Chikungunya
Dr. Jorge L. Muñoz-Jordán; Chief, Molecular Diagnostics and Research, Dengue Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, PR

11:45 am         Research Experiences Enhance Undergraduate Biology Education
Dr. Michael R. Rubin; Professor, University of Puerto Rico, Cayey, PR

12:15 pm         Closing Remarks
                  Dr. José R. Pérez-Jiménez, Director PRMIER, Universidad del Turabo, PR

12:30 pm        Lunch and Poster Session. Museum, UT


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