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Henry Plascencia |
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Education ·
B.S.,
Physics, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki,
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M.S.,
Physics, Northeastern
University,
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Ph.D.,
Physics (Biophysics), Northeastern University, ·
Postdoctoral
Fellowship, Structural Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA,
1990-1993 ·
Senior
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Computational Chemistry, University
of California, San Diego,
CA, 1999-2001 Awards ·
OCEC
(Orange County Engineering Council) 2011 Distinguished Engineering Educator
Award. ·
Fellow,
AIMBE (American Institute for Medical
and Biological Engineering), 2008 ·
Fellow,
AAAS (American Association for the
Advancement of Science), 2006 ·
Non-Senate Distinguished Researcher Award, University of California, Riverside, CA, 2003-2004 ·
NIH (National Institutes of
Health) National Research Service Award-Senior Fellowship, Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, CA, 1999-2001 ·
Fulbright Scholar to pursue graduate studies in
physics in U.S.A., Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1983-1984 ·
The
Scripps Society of Fellows Award
for best presentation at the Scripps Society of Fellows Annual Research
Symposium, 1993 ·
IAESTE
(International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical
Experience) Summer Undergraduate Student Internship, The Institute of Atomic and
Molecular Physics of the Polish Academy of Science, Poznan, Poland, 1981 ·
APS
(American Physical Society) STEP Travel Grant to attend the March 1989 National A.P.S. Meeting in
Saint Louis, MO, 1989 ·
APS-Fulbright STEP Travel Grant to attend the March 1986 National
A.P.S. Meeting in Las Vegas, NV ·
Fulbright Summer Orientation Program, Other Affiliations ·
Faculty, Center for
Bioengineering Research, University of California, Riverside, ·
Faculty, Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences, University of California,
Riverside, ·
Cooperating Faculty Member, Department
of Chemistry, University
of California, Riverside,
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Faculty Member, Materials
Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Riverside, ·
Faculty, Center
for Research in Intelligent Systems (CRIS), Bourns College of Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, 2007- ·
Member,
Center for Plant
Cell Biology (CEPCEB), College of Natural and Agricultural Science,
University of California, Riverside, CA, 2005- ·
Adjunct
Faculty, Division of Immunology and Department of Neurobiochemistry, Beckman Research Institute, City
of Hope Medical Center,
Duarte, CA, 2003- ·
Participating
Researcher, Institute for
Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB), University of California, Riverside, Professional Societies American Association
for the Advancement of Science; American Chemical Society; American Physical Society; Biomedical Engineering Society; Biophysical Society; International Complement Society. Editorial ·
2007-,
Founding Faculty Advisory Board, UCR Undergraduate
Research Journal. ·
2008-,
Contributing Faculty Member in “FACULTY
OF 1000 BIOLOGY”,
Structural Biology – Theory & Simulation section, an online service to organize
and evaluate the vast wealth of information in the literature across biology
and medicine. ·
2009-,
Editorial Advisory Board Member, The
Open Bioinformatics Journal. ·
2009-,
Editorial Board Member, Molecular
Biology International. |
Graduate Students
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Chris Kieslich Graduate
Student, Department of Bioengineering, Education Awards ·
TRDRP
(Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program) Dissertation Fellowship Award,
2010-2012 ·
NSF
EAPSI (East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes) Summer 2009 Fellowship, Osaka
University, Japan ·
NSF
Central Europe Summer Research Institute Fellowship, Department of Physics, University
of Warsaw, Poland, 2010 ·
Best
Bioengineering Teaching Assistant Award, 2008 ·
Second
Place at TechHorizons Poster Competition, 5/13/2009 Professional Society Biomedical
Engineering Society |
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Aliana López de
Victoria Graduate
Student, Department of Bioengineering, Education Awards ·
UCR
Graduate Research Mentorship Program (GRMP) Fellowship, 2010-2011 ·
US
Department of Education Graduate Assistance in the Areas of National Need
(GAANN), 2009-2010 ·
Travel
awards from the National Science Foundation's Alliance for Graduate Education
and the Professoriate (AGEP) to attend the 2009 and 2010 UC Systemwide
Bioengineering Symposia ·
Recipient
of educational award from the National Conference of Puerto Rican Women Inc.,
Southern California Chapter, 2009 Professional Society Biomedical
Engineering Society |
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Graduate
Student, Department of Bioengineering, UCR Education B.S.,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Awards ·
Whitaker
International Fellow, 2011-2012 ·
NSF
EAPSI (East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes) Summer 2011 Fellowship, National
Taiwan University. ·
Utrecht
University – University of California Short Stay Fellowship to perform
research in summer/fall 2011 at the Department of Medical Microbiology,
University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) ·
OCEC
(Orange County Engineering Council) 2011 Outstanding Engineering Student
Award. ·
1st
place award for outstanding poster presentation at the 11th UC
Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium, UC-Davis, 06/17-19/2010 ·
UCR
Graduate Research Mentorship Program (GRMP) Fellowship, Fall 2010. ·
UCR
Graduate Student Association travel grant to attend the 2010 UC Systemwide
Bioengineering Symposium. Professional Society |
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Graduate
Student, Department of Bioengineering, UCR Education B.S.,
Bioengineering, UCR, 2009 Awards ·
NSF
Graduate Fellowship, 2011-2014 ·
Eugene
Cota-Robles Fellowship, 2009-2012 ·
UCR
Graduate Student Association travel grant to attend the 2010 UC Systemwide
Bioengineering Symposium. Professional Society |
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Graduate
Student, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, UCR B.S.,
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn M.S.,
Computer & Information Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn |
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Undergraduate Students
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Senior, Bioengineering major, UCR |
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Senior, Bioengineering major, UCR |
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Henry
Plascencia Junior, Bioengineering major, UCR |
Alumni
Visitors
· Phanourios
Tamamis, Fulbright Scholar, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, UCR
Department of Bioengineering, 2/2006-4/2006.
Postdoctoral
· Jayalakshmi
Sridhar, Visiting Assistant Researcher,
· Buddhadeb
Mallik, Postgraduate Researcher and Staff Research Associate,
Doctoral
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Li Zhang, graduate student,
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Huseyin Hakkoymaz, UCR Department of Computer
Science & Engineering, 1/2008-8/2010. Co-advisor: Dimitrios Gunopulos. Ph.D.
awarded in August 2010. Thesis title: Clustering Techniques for Data Mining and
Protein Design Around the Concept of Locality. Subsequently software engineer
at ESRI, Redlands, CA
Masters
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Jianfeng Yang,
Graduate
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Paul Nguyen, UCR Department of Bioengineering
major,
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Radoslaw Drozd, Visiting Summer Graduate Student
(6/2006-9/2006) from the Enzymology Unit, Department of Physiological
Chemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Animal Science, Agricultural
University, Szczecin, Poland.
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Wei Yu, Graduate Assistant (10/2005-3/2006),
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Nima Ghaderi, Research Assistant (4/2002-9/2002),
Technical Assistant
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Gabrielle Goodman,
1/2009-9/2009. Subsequently attending graduate school in Bioengineering at UCR.
NSF graduate fellowship.
Undergraduate
· Marisse Foronda, Bioengineering major,
· Mohammed Desai, Bioengineering major,
· Sharon Wu, University of California, Berkeley, Summer 2009.
· Chelsea Vandegrift, Chemistry major,
· Andrew Feier, Biology and Economics major,
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Ioannis Mountziaris, Molecular Biology major,
Princeton University undergraduate student,
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Nic Novak, Neuroscience major, Oberlin College
University undergraduate student,
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Paul Nguyen, Bioengineering major,
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Gabrielle Goodman, Bioengineering major,
· Homero
Vazquez, Bioengineering and Biology major,
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Laura Hockaday, Bioengineering major,
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Megan Chawner, Biochemistry major, Lafayette
College undergraduate student,
· Alexander
Cheung, Bioengineering major,
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Nicholas Huynh, Biochemistry and Economics major,
Undergraduate Students – Senior Design Projects
· José Gomez, Kyle McKellar, Aaron Nichols, Bioengineering seniors,
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Kaila Bennett, Amitoj Chopra, Jesse Johnson, Enrico
Sagullo, Bioengineering seniors,