RCMI Symposium
December 10-13, 2012
"Translating Science to Better Health: The Power of Diversity and Multicultural Engagement"
The 13th RCMI International Symposium on Health Disparities was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In attendance were 30 UTSA faculty and staff; 38 UTSA poster presentations were featured. The UTSA RCMI program sponsored a booth that included an interactive model of the Nanotechnology and Human Health Core's JEOL transmission electron microscope (JEM-ARM200F) with actual images from the microscope. The booth also featured a display of the Biophotonics Core's laser scanning (confocal) microscope - the Zeiss LSM 710.
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Dr. Tsin; Dr. Torres-Ruiz
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Mieko Johnson; Kai Kamaka;
Christella Robledo
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Drs. Seshu and Arulanandam
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Dr. Wormley
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Braxton Jamison
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Itay Raphael
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Drs. Haskins and Bach
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Drs. Haskins and Liang
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Dr. Sunil
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Drs. Sunil, Jimenez, and Castro
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Mieko Johnson; Dr. Tsin
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Christella Robledo; Dr. Perry;
Dr. Arulanandam
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Dr. McNairy; Christella Robledo
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Christella Robledo; Dr. Yanagihara
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Dr. McNairy; Mieko Johnson
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Abstracts Presented at the Symposium
- Dr. Bernard Arulanandam
- Jeremiah Babcock
- Brandi Betts
- Dr. Lorenzo Brancaleon
- Cama Deem
- Mohammed Farooqi
- Dr. Jill Fleuriet
- Dr. Ruth Grubesic
- Dr. Will Haskins
- Braxton Jamison
- Dr. Niannian Ji
- Dr. Yufang Jin
- Zurab Kereselidze
- Venkat Kotagiri
- Yi-Chun Lai
- Chifeng Ma
- Swetha Mahesula
- Joshua Mimun
- Linda Nagore
- Christine Ochoa
- Elizabeth Perry
- Dr. George Perry
- Dr. Clyde Phelix
- Dr. German Plascencia Villa
- Itay Raphael
- Kirstie Salinas
- Alexis Santos Lozada
- Dr. Arturo Ponce-Pedraza
- Dr. Janakiram Seshu
- Dr. Thankam Sunil
- Dr. Yufeng Wang
- Zhiwei Wang
- Dr. Colleen Witt
- Dr. Floyd Wormley
- Dr. Jianqiu Michelle Zhang
- Xiaolin Zhang
- Dr. YanWen Zhou