I am interested on the cytoskeleton and organelle dynamics (mitochondria) guiding neuronal development and regeneration; and in the understanding of the early processes orchestrating the spinal cord regeneration.

2019. Research Mentor, PUC, Chile. Mentoring two undergraduate students (Direct mentor of the course BIO295, PUC)

2016 - 2018. Research Mentor, Boston College, USA. Mentored two undergraduate students

2011 - 2016. Research Mentor, PUC, Chile. Mentored two undergraduate students

2017 – 18. - Co-founder and co-chair of the Boston College Postdoctoral Association
• Generation of the Knowledge dissemination program to support postdoctoral fellow presentation in meetings
• Organization of a talk series to support postdoctoral trainee program

Oral Presentations:
1) Slater PG, Magee A, Samuelson A, Lowery LA. XMAP215 is important for coordination between actin filaments and microtubules in embryonic neuronal growth cones. ASCB EMBO 2017 meeting. Subgroup X: Neuronal Cytoskeleton: A Complex Interplay of Cytoarchitecture and Dynamics. 2-6 December 2017, Philadelphia, USA.

2) Slater PG, Magee A, Samuelson A, Lowery LA. XMAP215 is important for the actin filament and microtubule cytoskeleton coordination in the axonal growth cone. Biology Department Retreat. Boston College, August 2017.

Seminars:
1) XMAP215 promueve interacción entre microtúbulos y filamentos de actina y participa en la guía del crecimiento del axón. Cellular and Molecular Department seminars, PUC, January 2019.

2) CRF-BP/CRF2?R interaction: a possible escort role for CRF-BP. Data Club, Biology department, Boston College, December 2016.

3) CRF binding protein facilitates the presence of CRF type 2? receptor on the cell surface. Professor Shan Sockanathan D Phil lab, Director of Neuroscience Graduate Admissions Dept of Neuroscience Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, October 2015.

Science outreach:
1) 2019. Speaker “Estudios Científicos mediante el uso de ranas”, Workshop PUC Family Day, July 2019, PUC.

2) 2011 – 2013. Nucleus Millenium in Stress and Addiction (NEDA).
Speaker at workshops: “Bases Científicas de la Drogadicción” in Colegio Bicentenario República de Brasil, Concepción, October 2013.
“La fiesta de la Neurosciencia” of Explora Conicyt, Santiago, October 2012.
“Bases Científicas de la Drogadicción” in Instituto Regional Federico Errázuriz, Santa Cruz, September 2011.