Pedro G. Santiago Cardona, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Education
 2003 - 2005 Post-Doctorate - Molecular Oncology Research Institute, Radiation Oncology Department, Tuft-New England Medical Center.

2001 – 2003
Post-Doctorate - Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School.

2001 
Ph.D. in Biology - University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
 

 
Additional
Training		 2005


 National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Biological Sciences and Quality Education for Minorities Network, workshop on NSF proposal preparation and submission, Baltimore, Maryland.

1999
International Training Course on Molecular Aspects of Fertilization and Early Development (ICRO-UNESCO), Marine Biological Station, Tohoku University, Asamushi, Aomori, Japan.
1997
International Training Course on Sea Urchin Eggs and Embryos as Model Cells (ICRO-UNESCO), International Marine Center, Torregrande, Oristano, Sardinia, Italy.

1996
"Internet and Computer Program Resources for Searching and Manipulating DNA and Protein Sequences", workshop at the Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.

1996
"Genomic DNA Library Construction", workshop at the Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.

1996
"Physiology: Cellular and Molecular Biology " course, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
1996
Training in Subtraction cDNA Library Construction, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

1995
"RNA Metabolism" workshop, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.

1995
"cDNA Libraries Construction" workshop, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
Current Research, Teaching and Professional Appointments 04/06– Present Assistant Professor, Biochemistry Department, Ponce School of Medicine, Ponce, Puerto Rico.

07/05 - 03/06
Assistant Professor, School of Science and Technology, Universidad del Este, Carolina, Puerto Rico.

08-12/00
Teacher Assistant in Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology courses. Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras.

Research Areas
Molecular Cancer Biology – The Cellular and Molecular Basis of Metastasis

 
Recent
Memberships
of Professional
Societies/
Awards		 1999 – 2001 Minority Graduate Education Program Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

1998
FASEB Travel Fellowship to assist to the Society for Developmental Biology 57th Annual Meeting, Stanford, CA.

1997-99
PR/NASA Capability Enhancement Fellowship.

1996
William Townsend Porter Fellowship and Scholarship Fund, American Society for Cell Biology Award, and William Morton Wheeler Family Founder's Scholarship, to attend the course entitled "Physiology: Cellular and Molecular Biology" at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Recent Publications 2003 Yang H.-S., Alexander K., Santiago P., and Hinds P. W. ERM proteins and Cdk5 in cellular senescence. Cell Cycle, 2(6): 517-520.

2003
Pedro G. Santiago-Cardona, César Berríos, Francisco Ramírez and José E. García-Arrarás. Lipopolysaccharides induce intestinal Serum Amyloid A expression in the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima. Dev. Comp. Immunol., 27(2): 105-110. 

2001
José L. Roig-López, Pedro Santiago, Braulio Jiménez, Carlos Santiago and José E. García-Arrarás. Strategies to identify differentially expressed genes during regeneration. In: Echinoderms 2000: Proceedings of the 10th International Echinoderm Conference. Mike Barker (ed.): 49-54. 

2000
Pedro G. Santiago-Cardona, José Luis Roig-López, Carlos Santiago, and José E. García-Arrarás. Serum amyloid A protein in an echinoderm: its primary structure and expression during intestinal regeneration in the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima. J. Exp. Zool. (Mol Dev Evol), 288(4): 335-344.

2000
Ana T. Méndez, José L. Roig-López, Pedro Santiago, Carlos Santiago, and José E. García-Arrarás. Identification of Hox gene sequences in the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima Selenka (Holothuroidea: Echinodermata). Mar. Biotechnol., 2(3): 231-240.
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