Email

marinam@bcm.edu

Positions

Postdoctoral Fellow

Medicine-Thrombosis
Center for Translational Research on Inflammatory Diseases (CTRID)
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US
The Role of von Willebrand Factor in Traumatic Brain Injury

Addresses

Center for Translational Research on Inflammatory Diseases (CTRID) (Lab)

Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
2002 Holcombe Blvd. B. 109-146
Houston, TX 77030
United States

Education

BS from University of Puerto Rico

05/2008 - Humacao, Puerto Rico United States Minor Outlying Islands

Biology with minor in Microbiology

PhD from University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus

08/2016 - San Juan, Puerto Rico United States Minor Outlying Islands

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Honors & Awards

PDA Professional Career Committee Chair

Baylor College of Medicine (02/2021)

Websites

Professional Development

Identification of the Binding Sites for Vimentin and A1 Domain in the A2 domain of von Willebrand factor.

Conference (Presenter, 2017)

Sponsor: MD Anderson Postdoctoral Association

Selected Publications

• Christian Valladolid, Marina Martinez-Vargas, Nitin Sekhar, Fong Lam, Cameron Brown, Timothy Palzkill, Alexander Tischer, Mathew Auton, K. Vinod Vijayan, Rolando E. Rumbaut, Trung C. Nguyen, and Miguel A. Cruz "Modulating the rate of fibrin formation and clot structure attenuates microvascular thrombosis in systemic inflammation.." Blood Advances. 2020 Jan 15;4(7):1340-1349. Pubmed PMID: 7160269
• Alexander Tischer; Maria A Brehm; Venkata R Machha; Laurie Moon-Tasson; Linda M Benson; Katelynn J Nelton; Rachel Leger; Tobias Obser; Marina Martinez-Vargas; Steven T Whitten; Dong Chen; Rajiv K Pruthi; Robert Bergen III; Miguel A Cruz; Matthew Auton "Evidence for the Misfolding of the A1 Domain within Multimeric von Willebrand Factor in Type 2 von Willebrand Disease.." JMB. 2020 Jan 17;432(2):305-323. Pubmed PMID: 31628947
• "The Role of HuR in the Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Interleukin-3 in T Cells.." ;
• "Real-Time Detection of Telomerase Activity in Cancer Cells using a Label-Free Electrochemical Impedimetric Biosensing Microchip.." ;

Funding

Diversity Supplement

NIH/NHLBI

Collaborative Research Training in Thrombosis and Inflammation

(06/06/2019 - 05/31/2022) NIH/NHLBI

T32 Postdoctoral Training Fellowship

Skills

Protein Purification

Cell Culture

Molecular and Biochemical Approaches

Mice Genotyping

Histology

Languages

Spanish