Generation and modulation of the respiratory rhythm; Central Chemoreception; Gliotransmission; Postnatal respiratory dysfunctions induced by prenatal exposure to drugs

LECTURES
2019: Lecture title: "Role of astrocytes in the modulation of the respiratory rhythm". Summer course in neuroscience: Advances in neural circuit excitability and rhythm modulation in health and disease. Universidad de Santiago de Chile.

GRADUATE COLLECTIVE COURSES
2019: Invited professor. "Electrophysiological Methods of Neuroscience". PhD in Neuroscience. Universidad de Santiago de Chile

UNDERGRADUATE COLLECTIVE COURSES
2018: Invited professor, "Respiratory System". Animal Physiology course for Biochemistry students, Universidad de Santiago de Chile.

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2017 to date

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Centro de Innovación UC, San Joaquín, Santiago
2017

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Facultad de Química y Biología. Santiago, Chile
2010

Co-organizer - XXVI Congreso Nacional de Estudiantes de Bioquímica
Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile
2009

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SIMPOSIA
1. Titled: "Prenatal nicotine alters NK1R-mediated modulation of the respiratory rhythm in mouse neonates" (2014). 1st Panamerican Congress of Physiological Sciences “Álvaro Ozório de Almeida award competition”, Foz do Iguazu, Brazil.
2. Titled: “Astrocytes from raphe obscurus nucleus contribute to respiratory response to elevated CO2” (2018). 14th Annual Meeting of Neuroscience Chilean Society. Puerto
Varas, Chile.
3. Titled “Role of astrocytes in the modulation of the respiratory rhythm” (2019). Summer course in neuroscience: Advances in neural circuit excitability and rhythm modulation in health and disease. Santiago, Chile.

FREE COMMUNICATIONS
International Scientific Meetings:
1. Eugenín J., Beltrán-Castillo S., Olivares MJ., von Bernhardi R. (2019). D-Serine contributes to the respiratory response to hypercapnia. 4th International Conference of D-Amino Acid Research. Tokyo, Japan.
2. Eugenín J., Olivares MJ., Beltrán-Castillo S., Cáceres-Vergara D. (2019). Caudal Brainstem Astrocytes Contribute to the Central Respiratory Chemoreception. 2nd Panamerican Congress of Physiological Sciences. Habana, Cuba.
3. Eugenín J, Olivares MJ, Beltrán-Castillo S, von Bernhardi R. (2019). Astrocytes from caudal medulla contribute to central respiratory chemoreception. XIV European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease. Porto, Portugal.
4. Olivares, MJ., Beltrán-Castillo, S., Eugenín, J. (2018). Metabolic inhibition of astrocytes reduces the respiratory response induced by hypercapnic acidosis of the raphe nucleus. 48th Annual Meeting Society for Neuroscience San Diego, California, United States.
5. Olivares, MJ., Beltrán-Castillo, S., Contreras, R., Zuñiga, G., von Bernhardi, R., Eugenín, J. (2017). Mechanism of D-serine release from brainstem astrocytes. 47th Annual Meeting Society for Neuroscience Washington DC, United States.
6. Beltrán-Castillo, S., Olivares, MJ., Llona, I., von Bernhardi, R., Eugenín, J. (2017). D-serine, a novel component in the central chemosensory control of breathing. 47th Annual Meeting Society for Neuroscience Washington DC, United States.
7. Eugenín, J., Beltrán-Castillo, S., Olivares, MJ., Contreras, R., Zúñiga, G. (2017). Metabolic inhibition of astrocytes impairs central chemoreception in caudal brainstem slices. 13th European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease. Edinburgh, Scotland.
8. Olivares, MJ., et al. (2016). Hypercapnic acidosis induces glutamate, D-serine, and ATP release from caudal brainstem astrocytes in culture. 46th Society for Neuroscience San Diego, California, United States.
9. Eugenín, J., Gómez, K., Olivares, MJ., et al. (2016). ATP contributes to the respiratory response to hypercapnia in caudal brainstem slices from neonatal mice. 10th FENS, Forum of Neuroscience. Copenhagen, Denmark.
10. Olivares, MJ., Eugenín, J. (2014). Prenatal nicotine alters NK1R-mediated modulation of the respiratory rhythm in mouse neonates. 1st Panamerican Congress of Physiological Sciences. Foz do Iguazu, Brazil.

National Scientific Meetings:
1. Olivares MJ, Irribarra E, Eugenín J. (2019). Cultured brainstem astrocytes and microglia increased their intracellular calcium concentration in response to gliotransmitters and hypercapnic acidosis. (2019). 15th Annual Meeting of Neuroscience Chilean Society. La Serena, Chile.
2. Irribarra-Cares E, Olivares MJ, Von Bernhardi R, Eugenín J. (2019). Phenotypical differentiation (M1/M2) of brainstem microglia induced by hypercapnia. 15th Annual Meeting of Neuroscience Chilean Society. La Serena, Chile.
3. Marca, S., Irribarra, E., Cáceres-Vergara, D., Olivares, MJ., von Bernhardi, R., Eugenín, J. (2018). Activation of brainstem microglia by gliotransmitters. 14th Annual Meeting of Neuroscience Chilean Society. Puerto Varas, Chile.
4. Olivares, MJ., Beltrán-Castillo, S., Contreras, R., Zuñiga, G., von Bernhardi, R., Eugenín, J. (2017). Mechanism of L-Glutamate release from brainstem astrocytes. 13th Annual Meeting of Neuroscience Chilean Society. Castro, Chile.
5. Beltrán-Castillo, S., Olivares, MJ., Llona, I., von Bernhardi, R., Eugenín, J. (2017). D-serine from medullary brainstem astrocytes is mediates the breathing response to hypercapnia. 13th Annual Meeting of Neuroscience Chilean Society. Castro, Chile.
6. Olivares, MJ., et al. (2015). Hypercarbic acidosis induce ATP release from brainstem astrocytes in culture. 11th Annual Meeting of Neuroscience Chilean Society. Coquimbo, Chile.
7. Gómez, K., Olivares, MJ., et al. (2015). ATP a probable mediator of the respiratory response at caudal medullary chemosensitive nuclei. 11th Annual Meeting of Neuroscience Chilean Society. Coquimbo, Chile.
8. Olivares, MJ., et al. (2013). Respiratory rhythm modulation by substance P is alterated by prenatal nicotine exposure in neonatal mice. 10th Annual Meeting Chilean Society of Neuroscience and VII Congress Society of Latinamerican Biophysicists. Valparaiso, Chile.
9. Olivares, MJ., et al. (2011). Efecto de la hipotermia sobre la respuesta ventilatoria a hipercapnia en ratones neonatos expuestos a nicotina prenatal. XXVIII Biochemistry Student National Congress. Santiago, Chile.
10. Olivares, MJ., et al. (2011). Exposición a nicotína prenatal en ratones neonatos, efectos de la hipotermia sobre la respuesta ventilatoria a hipercapnia. V Encuentro de Investigación de alumnos de Pre y Postgrado, USACH. Santiago, Chile.