Mayra L Garcia

Mayra L Garcia, Ph.D.

  • Position:
    Graduate Student - Ph.D.

    Pharmacology

    Pathology

    Yale University (New Haven, CT)

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  • Advisor:

    Michael D Robek

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D., Pharmacology, Yale University (New Haven, CT)
     
    M.S., Pharmacology, Yale University (New Haven, CT)
     
    M.Phil., Pharmacology, Yale University (New Haven, CT)
     
    B.Sc., Microbiology, California State University, Long Beach (Long Beach, CA)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Gary Rudnick (as Visiting Student)
     
    Editte Gharakhanian (as Undergraduate Student)
     
    Megan Stephan (as Visiting Student)
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  • Research:
    My research specialization is in molecular interactions between viral and cellular proteins and how these interactions can be exploited for the development of antiviral drugs.

    Dissertation topics addressed the regulatory role of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in Hepatitis B Virus replication; specifically identification of ubiquitin interacting motifs within the viral structural protein that direct intracellular trafficking, establishing the viability of proteasome inhibitors to treat HBV infection, and design of peptide based inhibitors to disrupt HBV replication.

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  • Other Experience:

    2009-2010 Technology Commercialization Intern: Yale Office of Copperative Research

    2009 Life Sciences Student Advisor: Yale Science, Technology, and Research Scholars (STARS) Program

    2008-2009 Public Relations Officer: Scientists and Engineers for America, Yale Student Chapter

    2008 Teaching Assistant: Cellular and Molecular Biology of Cancer

    2008 Teaching Assistant: Laboratory for Principles of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

    2006-2008 Pharmacology Department Student Representative: Yale Graduate Student Assembly

    2006 Graduate Research Rotation: Yale University, Dr. Ira Mellman

    2006 Graduate Research Rotation: Yale University, Dr. Akiko Iwasaki

    2004-2005 Research Fellow: Yale University Department of Pharmacology

    2001-2004 Research Fellow: CSULB Department of Biological Sciences

    2003 Research Fellow: Yale University Department of Pharmacology

    2000-2001 Science Tutor: Educational Opportunity Program

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  • Honors:

    2009 William H. Prusoff Travel Award

    2008 American Society for Virology Travel Award

    2008 William H. Prusoff Travel Award

    2007 Honorable Mention. National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

    2007-2010 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

    2004-2005 Yale Postbaccalaureate Research Enrichment Program (PREP) Scholar

    2004 CSULB Biological Sciences Departmental Honors

    2004 Robert Rhodes Award for Outstanding Graduate from the Department of Biological Sciences

    2004 Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honors Society

    2004 Harkisan Raj Award for Academic Excellence

    2003 Yale Biomedical Science Training and Enrichment Program (BioSTEP) Scholar

    2001-2003 Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Scholar

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Mayra Garcia's Publications (4)



Mayra Garcia's Posters and Presentations (8)

  • Bortezomib Inhibits Hepatitis B Virus Replication in Transgenic Mice (poster)

    Mayra L .Garcia, Prasanthi Bandi, and Michael D. Robek

    Ubiquitin Drug Discovery and Diagnostics; 10/2009
  • HBV Core Lysine Residues in Virus Replication, Trafficking, and Release (presentation)

    Mayra L Garcia, Rushelle Byfield, and Michael D Robek

    International Meeting of the Molecular Biology of Hepatitis B Viruses; 09/2008
  • Role of Ubiquitin Modifications in Hepatitis B Virus Replication (presentation)

    Mayra L Garcia, Rushelle Byfield, and Michael D Robek

    The National Academies Conference of Ford Fellows; 08/2008
  • Ubiquitin Modifications in Hepatitis B Virus Replication (presentation)

    Mayra L Garcia, Rushelle Byfield, and Michael D Robek

    American Society for Virology, National Meeting; 08/2008
  • Ubiquitin Modifications of HBV Core and Polymerase (poster)

    Prasanthi Bandi, Rushelle Byfield, Mayra L. Garcia and Michael D. Robek

    International Meeting of the Molecular Biology of Hepatitis B Viruses, International Meeting; 09/2006
  • Defective Yeast ENV Genes Result in Accumulation of p2CPY in a post-Golgi, Non-vacuolar Compartment (poster)

    Chem S., Frost C.P., Funiciello C., Garcia M.L., Hogan T., Sao D., and Gharakhanian E.

    Caifornia State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology Symposium, Regional Meeting; 01/2004
  • Identifying the Boundary between Extracellular Loop 4 and Transmembrane Span 8 of the Serotonin Transporter (poster)

    Mayra L Garcia and Megan M. Stephan

    CSULB College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Research Symposium; 09/2003
  • Establishment of Gene Cloning Strategies for Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mutants Defective in Endosome to Vacuole Delivery. (poster)

    Mayra L Garcia and Editte Gharakhanian

    Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, National Meeting; 09/2002

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Targets of inhibition in the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway


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