Dr. Javier Rivera Guzman

Dr. Javier Rivera Guzman

Associate Teaching Professor · Non-Tenure Track

Department of Biological Sciences

College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

About

I am a broadly-trained biomedical scientist.

Research interests

Immunological Cell Signaling, Natural Products, and Public Health

Teaching interests

Opportunities that allow interdisciplinary approaches and analysis are of particular interest to me. In laboratory teaching I am of the mind that I need to prepare students for the skills and knowledge that would be expected of them in a research or clinical laboratory that deals with that topic. In lectures, I try to help my students develop critical thinking skills and connect proverbial dots between different disciplines.

Education

  • Other, Core Concepts in Public HealthUniversity of North Carolina (2015)
  • Ph D, Microbiology & ImmunologyIndiana University (2009)
    The Inhibitor-of-Apoptosis Protein Survivin Increase p34Cdc2 Phosphorylation and Enhances Cell Survival and Proliferation by Protecting the Wee1 Kinase from Degradation by Caspase-3
  • BS, Biological SciencesInter American University of Puerto Rico (2002)