#  Pura Arroyo-Morales 

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**Thesis advisor:** Maria Lehtinen

**Rotation labs:** Maxwell Heiman, Maria Lehtinen

**For me, home is:** Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico (PR)

**Prior degree(s):** BS in Biology from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus (UPRM)

**Research experience before PiN:** Summer research at The Jackson Laboratory in Dr. Elissa Chesler's lab characterizing maternal behavior in different mouse strains with the goal of expanding the project under drug abuse treatments; undergraduate research at Dr. Matias Cafaro's lab at the UPRM using fungi to test for bioremediation of environmental pollutants such as wastewaters; post-bacc research at Yale in Dr. Daniel Colón-Ramos's lab studying the role of an axon guidance molecule (ROBO) during C. elegans neurodevelopment.

**Current research interests:** Developmental neuroscience, molecular mechanisms of neuroscience, computational neuroscience, glia

**Interests outside lab:** Baking, cooking, volleyball, Nintendo switch game nights, board games, reality tv (bachelor nation), hiking



 

 

 





 

 

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