Epernicus: Roberto Aguilar, Ph.D.

Roberto Aguilar, Ph.D.

Positions:
Postdoctoral Fellow

OB-GYN

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (San Antonio, TX)

President's Post Doctoral Fellow

Anatomy and Neurobiology

Reeve-Irvine Research Center

University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA)
Advisor:
Oswald Steward
Degrees:

Ph.D., Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio (San Antonio, TX)

B.S., Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio (San Antonio, TX)
Past Advisors:

Luis S Haro (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)

Luis S Haro (as Undergraduate Student)
Research:
My current research focuses in developing and characterizing new models of spinal cord injury (SCI) as well as identifying new therapeutic agents that can be utilized to enhance neural regeneration in clinically relevant models of SCI.
Honors:
2007-2009 President's Postdoctoral Fellowship

2006 South Texas Initiative for Mental Health Research (STIMHR) Award Recipient

2006-2007 NIH Training Postdoctoral Fellowship

2004-2006 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Predoctoral Scholar

2004 Optical Microscopy in Biomedical Sciences Course Scholarship Recipient

2002 SACNAS-Neuroscience Scholar

2001 Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholarship Recipient

2000 Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholarship Recipient

1999-2004 Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Graduate Student Fellow

1999 Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholarship Recipient

1999 Excellence in Endocrinology Award

1997 Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Undergraduate Student Fellow

1996-1997 Pfizer Undergraduate Research Fellow

Communities:

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Roberto Aguilar's Publications (9)

Human growth hormone: 45-kDa isoform with extraordinarily stable interchain disulfide links has attenuated receptor-binding and cell-proliferative activities.
Bustamante JJ, Grigorian AL, Muñoz J, Aguilar RM, Treviño LR, Martinez AO, Haro LS

Growth hormone & IGF research : official journal of the Growth Hormone Research Society and the International IGF Research Society. 2010 May 14
A bilateral cervical contusion injury model in mice: assessment of gripping strength as a measure of forelimb motor function.
Aguilar RM, Steward O

Experimental neurology. 2010 Jan;221(1):38-53
O-Glycosylated 24 kDa human growth hormone has a mucin-like biantennary disialylated tetrasaccharide attached at Thr-60.
Bustamante JJ, Gonzalez L, Carroll CA, Weintraub ST, Aguilar RM, Muñoz J, Martinez AO, Haro LS

Proteomics. 2009 Jul;9(13):3474-88
MAP dendrimer elicits antibodies for detecting rat and mouse GH-binding proteins.
Aguilar RM, Talamantes FJ, Bustamante JJ, Muñoz J, Treviño LR, Martinez AO, Haro LS

Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society. 2009 Feb;15(2):78-88
Preparative alkaline urea gradient PAGE: application to purification of extraordinarily-stable disulfide-linked homodimer of human growth hormone.
Grigorian AL, Bustamante JJ, Muñoz J, Aguilar RM, Martinez AO, Haro LS

Electrophoresis. 2007 Nov;28(21):3829-36
Separation of proteins with a molecular mass difference of 2 kDa utilizing preparative double-inverted gradient polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under nonreducing conditions: application to the isolation of 24 kDa human growth hormone.
Bustamante JJ, Garcia M, Gonzalez L, Garcia J, Flores R, Aguilar RM, Trevino A, Benavides L, Martinez AO, Haro LS

Electrophoresis. 2005 Dec;26(23):4389-95
Haptoglobin gene expression in human glioblastoma cell lines.
Sanchez DJ, Armstrong L, Aguilar R, Adrian GS, Haro L, Martinez AO

Neuroscience letters. 2001 May 11;303(3):181-4
Biochemistry and pharmacology of rabbit cardiac growth hormone (GH) receptors.
Haro LS, Bustamante J, Hernandez P, Flores R, Aguilar R, Lopez-Guajardo C, Martinez AO

Molecular and cellular endocrinology. 1999 Jun 25;152(1-2):179-87
Precipitation of dilute chromatographic samples (ng/ml) containing interfering substances for SDS-PAGE.
Aguilar RM, Bustamante JJ, Hernandez PG, Martinez AO, Haro LS

Analytical biochemistry. 1999 Feb 15;267(2):344-50

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Roberto Aguilar, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

President's Post Doctoral Fellow

My current research focuses in developing and characterizing new models of spinal cord injury (SCI) as well as identifying new therapeutic agents that can be utilized to enhance neural regeneration in clinically relevant models of SCI.

Roberto Aguilar's Genealogy

Roberto Aguilar's Publications (9)

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