Vanessa Rivera-Amill | Author | SciTechnol

Vanessa Rivera-Amill Author

vrivera@psm.edu (787) 840-2575

Subjects of specialization
Gel electrophoresis, PCR, Molecular biology, Gene regulation, Molecular cloning

Affiliation
Department of Microbiology, Ponce Health Sciences University-School of Medicine/ Ponce Research Institute, Ponce, PR 00716, USA

Biography

Vanessa Rivera Amill has published nine peer reviewed manuscripts (five as first author and corresponding author) focusing on the relationships between viral evolution and disease progression as well as compartmentalization or other phylogenetic analysis in SIV evolution. she has experience with comparison of virus in different compartments to understand how compartmentalization and loss of compartmentalization may be related to pathogenesis.

Publications

Research Article Open Access

HIV Gp120 Sequence Variability Associated with HAND in Hispanic Women

Author(s):

Krystal Colon, Fabian Vazquez-Santiago, Vanessa Rivera-Amill, Gisela Delgado, Steven E Massey, Valerie Wojna,Richard J Noel Jr and Loyda M Melendez

Abstract

Objective: HIV-1 variants with different tropisms are associated with various neuropathologies. This study intends to determine if this correlation is determined by unique viral env sequences. We hypothesize that HIV-1 envelope gene sequence changes are associated with cognition status

Methods: Viral RNA was extracted... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2324-8955.1000143

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