PREP (Postbac Research Education Program) scholar

Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, School of Medicine

2019 July –

Funding in the lab

2019 – 2020. R25 UNC-PREP training grant

While in the lab, Nicole was awarded an NSF GRFP fellowship on April 2020 for her upcoming Ph.D. training period.


Contact information

6330 Medical Biomolecular Research Building

111 Mason Farm Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Phone:919-962-6290

E-mail: nsre@email.unc.edu


Education and training

B.Sc., Biological Sciences, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, 2014-2019.


Honors and awards

  • ABRCMS, award for outstanding poster presentation in the area of Chemistry at the 2015 Seattle Symposium
  • RISE-UPR, Cayey presentation award (2016) for the investigation: “Evaluating how perturbations in LuxO quorum signaling affect bioluminescence in Vibrio fischeri”
  • UNC Chapel Hill,PREP Scholar 2019
  • University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, Cum Laude, 2019
  • National Science Foundation (NSF), GRFP fellowship 2020

Research Experience

Undergraduate research assistant, University of Puerto Rico-Cayey, 8/2017 – 5/2019

Summer research assistant, Pennsylvania State University, 5/2016 – 7/2016

Undergraduate research assistant, University of Puerto Rico-Cayey, 8/2015 – 7/2016

Summer research assistant, Ohio State University, 5/2015 – 6/2015

Undergraduate research assistant, University of Puerto Rico-Cayey, 8/2014 – 5/2015

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