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Lecturer

Universidad San Buenaventura, Bogotá, Colombia

Lecturer in the PhD program in Applied Neuroscience and Behavior. Research design, research data management, data analysis, scientific writing

• Research design, RDM, Data analysis

Postdoctoral fellow

Univeristy Laval, Quebec, Canada

Research on pericyte reactivity and brain remodeling following cerebral ischemia

• Pericyte reactivity following ischeia, Point pattern analysis, Topological data analysis

Doctoral researcher

Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany

Research on extracellular matrix, neuroglial and immune response in mouse model of cerebral ischemia

• Neuroglial reactivity following ischeia, Extracellular matrix

Neuropsychologist

Hospital Departamental del Valle, Cali, Colombia

Neuropsychological assessment to hospitalized and outpatients in the neurosurgery unit

• Neuropsychological assesment

Research Assistant

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia

Research on cortical and transcallosal neurCerebral ischemia

• Cerebral ischemia

PhD

International Graduate School of Neuroscience, Ruhr Univeristy Bochum

Neuroscience

• Cellular neuroscience, neuropathology

Bachelor

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Psychology

• Psychology

Member

Hanan Pacha Academy

Member of this association focused on science education in schools and institutions in low-income Latin-american countries

• Porject management, Science communication, teaching

President / member

School of Astronomy of Cali

President (2010-20121) and member of this association focused on the dissemination of astronomy and other natural sciences in Colombia.

• Porject management, Science communication, teaching

Postdoctoral fellowship

Fond de recherche du Québec

Competitive postdoctoral fellowship to perform research on the effects of KLF4 in pericyte reactivity following brain injury

Doctoral scholarship

International Graduate School of Neuroscience

Competitive doctoral scholarship to perform the doctoral program in neuroscience at the International Graduate School of Neuroscience (IGSN)

Order of Javeriano Academic Merit

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Honor/meritorious degree after completing the bachelor program in Psychology

First place in Biology essay

Fondo de Cultura Económica (Mexico)

First place in Biology essay in the XIII National & V Iberoamerican contest

First place in Physics essay

Fondo de Cultura Económica (Mexico)

First place in Physics essay in the XII National & IV Iberoamerican contest

Unbiased quantification of the spatial distribution of murine cells using point pattern analysis

STAR protocols

This protocol presents a stepwise approach to quantitatively describe the spatiotemporal changes in glial cell rearrangement in the injured murine brain

Tenascin-C restricts reactive astrogliosis in the ischemic brain

Matrix Biology

We show that TnC plays a central role in restraining post-ischemic astrogliosis and regulating astrocyte-microglial interactions.

Tenascin-C preserves microglia surveillance and restricts leukocyte and, more specifically, T-cell infiltration of the ischemic brain

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

In this artcile, we propose that the reduced microglia surveillance in TnC deficient mice favour leukocyte accumulation in the ischemic brain.

Inhibitory control in neuronal networks relies on the extracellular matrix integrity

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

We show that the brain’s ECM preserves the balanced state of neuronal networks by supporting inhibitory control via inhibitory synapse stabilization, which expands the current understanding of brain activity regulation.

Topological remodeling of cortical perineuronal nets in focal cerebral ischemia and mild hypoperfusion

Matrix Biology

Here, we show that focal cerebral ischemia induces partial depletion of PNNs and that mild hypoperfusion not associated with ischemic injury can induce ultra-structural rearrangements in visually intact meshworks. In line with the activation of neural plasticity under mild stress stimuli, we provide evidence that topological conversion of PNNs can support post stroke neural rewiring.