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Research and
Professional Experience:
1995 Postdoctoral
Fellow. Department of Psychology (with Joe L. Martinez Jr., Ph.D. University
of California at Berkeley,)
1996 Postdoctoral Fellow. Division of Life Sciences, (with Joe L. Martinez
Jr., Ph.D.)
University of Texas at San Antonio,
1997-2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras
2000 - present Associate Professor, Department of Biology
University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras
NIH Minority Biomedical
Research Support Program Trainee, 1986-1989
UCSF Minority Summer Research Trainnee, 1987
Glaxo First Year Graduate Scholarship, 1989
NSF Honorary Mention and Grant Award, 1989-1990
APA-NIMH Minority Neuroscience Fellowship, 1990-1991, 1993
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1992
NSF Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1995-1996
Glaxo Wellcome Young Investigator Award in Puerto Rico, 1999
Peña de Ortiz,
S., Cannon, M.M. and Jamieson Jr., G.A. Expression of nuclear hormone
receptors within the rat hippocampus. Mol. Brain Res. 1994, 23:278-283.
Peña de Ortiz,
S. and Jamieson Jr., G.A. HZF-3, an immediate-early orphan receptor homologous
to NURR1/NOT: Induction upon membrane depolarization and seizures. Mol.
Brain. Res. 1996, 38:1-13.
Peña de Ortiz,
S. and Jamieson Jr., G.A. Molecular cloning and brain localization of
HZF-2, a new member of the Rev-Erb family of orphan nuclear receptors.
J. Neurobiol. 1997, 32:341-357.
Peña de Ortiz
S., Maldonado-Vlaar, CS., Carrasquillo Y. Hippocampal Expression of the
Orphan Nuclear Receptor Gene hzf-3/nurr1 During Spatial Discrimination
Learning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 2000, 74:161-171. Cover
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Adrinel Vázquez
and Peña de Ortiz S. Intrahippocampal microinfusion of Pb+2 impairs
spatial discrimination learning on the holeboard task. Metal Ions in Biology
and Medicine. 2000, 6:447-449.
Vázquez SI, Vázquez A, and Peña de Ortiz, S. Different
cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase and Calcium/Phospholipid-Dependent Protein
Kinase C Hippocampal Activity Profiles in Spatial Learning. Behavioral
Neuroscience, (2000) 114( 6): 1109-1118..
Peña de Ortiz,
S and Arshavsky YI. DNA Recombination is a Possible Mechanism for Declarative
Memory. Journal of Neuroscience Research, (2001) 63:72-81 .
Ren K and Peña
de Ortiz S. Non-homologous DNA end joining in the mature rat brain. Journal
of Neurochemistry, 2002, 80: 949-959
Kida S, Josselyn
SA, Peña de Ortiz S., Kogan JH, Chévere I., Masushige S,
and Silva AJ. A tamoxifen inducible CREB mutant blocks long-term memory
and reconsolidation of fear conditioning learning. Nature Neuroscience,
In Press.
Josselyn, S., Kida
S., Peña de Ortiz, S. Silva, AJ. CREB, plasticity, and memory.
In: HANDBOOK OF CHEMICAL NEUROANATOMY: Immediate early genes and inducible
transcription factors in mapping of the central nervous system function
and dysfunction. Leszek Kaczmarek, Harold A. Robertson - Editors, In Press
Ortiz-Zuazaga HG,
Robles Y, Chiesa, R, and Peña de Ortiz S. Analysis of learning-related
changes in gene expression using nylon-membrane cDNA arrays. Currents
in Computational Molecular Biology 2001, 159-160.
Peña de Ortiz
S, Colón M, Carrasquillo Y, Padilla B, and Arshavski YI. Experience-dependent
expression of the gene encoding terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase
in the mouse brain. Journal of Neuroscience Rapid Communications, Submitted
-In Revision .
Robles Y, Ortiz-Zuazaga
HG, Pablo E. Vivas, Yahaira Felix, Peña de Ortiz, S. Hippocampal
gene expression profiling in spatial learning. J. Neurochemistry, Submitted
In Revision
Chiesa R, Ge H, Ortiz,
S, Pérez J, Ortiz-Zuazaga HG and Peña de Ortiz S. Gene expression
profiling in conditioned taste aversion. Learning and Memory, In Preparation.
Quirk GJ, Ge H, and
Peña de Ortiz S. Extinction-specific expression of Fos in the medial
prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, Rapid Communication In Preparation
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