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Minerva Contreras receives D-SPAN and Mind Science Foundation Brainstorm awards!
Minerva Contreras was awarded the NIH BLUEPRINT and Brain Initiative D-SPAN award (F99/K00). This fellowship will support her during the last stage of her PhD and ease her transition to a strong neuroscience research postdoctoral position.
Additionally, she won the Mind Science Foundation Brainstorm Neuroscience Pitch competition Audience Choice Award. This award provides an additional $40,000 for her research.
Minerva is generally interested in how different cell types in the brain and their dinamic interactions give rise to synaptic plasticity. Her PhD work focuses on the role of astrocytes in regulating experience-dependent plasticity, specifically in the adult brain. She is passionate about mentorship and communicating science to the general public and will continue in these endeavors as she advances in her journey as an independent neuroscientist.
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