Loreilys Mejias Rivera

Hometown: Cidra, Puerto Rico

Education:

Currently a 3rd-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Cell and Molecular Biology (CAMB) graduate program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA
2021 Bachelor of Science in Cell and Molecular Biology and Minor in Human Rights, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan PR

Areas of Special Interest:

Cellular progenitors of heterotopic ossification in FOP, fibro-adipogenic progenitors (FAPs), and their role in muscle regeneration.

Publications:

Emi, T.*, Rivera, L. M.*, Tripathi, V. C., Yano, N., Ragavendran, A., Wallace, J., & Fedulov, A. V. (2021). Transcriptomic and epigenomic effects of insoluble particles on J774 macrophages. Epigenetics, 16(10), 1053–1070. https://doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2020.1834925 *Equivalent first authors
Mandarino, A., Gregory, D. J., McGuire, C. C., Leblanc, B. W., Witt, H., Rivera, L. M., Godleski, J. J., & Fedulov, A. V. (2020). The effect of talc particles on phagocytes in co-culture with ovarian cancer cells. Environmental research, 180, 108676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2019.108676

Awards:

2020 Summer Program for Undergraduate Research - Life and Biomedical Sciences (SPUR-LABS), University of California Los Angeles
2019 Leadership Alliance Summer Internship, Brown University
2019 – 2021 RISE Scholar (Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement), University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus
2016 Academic Excellence Award Rafael Carrion Jr., Banco Popular Foundation