Education

• M.Sc.  University of Buenos Aires  2002
• Ph.D.  University of Buenos Aires  2009

Background

• Board on Higher Education and Workforce (BHEW), National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine
• Board Member, Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
• Co-chair, New Voices, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
• Associate Professor, Director of the Biobehavioral Lab, and Beerstecher-Blackwell Distinguished Term Scholar, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Humanities. Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA
• Interim Director for Diversity and Inclusion in Education, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA
• Councilor, Organization for the Study of Sex Differences

Scholarly Interests

• Air pollution and lung disease
• Sex differences in asthma
• Animal models of environmental exposures
• Molecular effects of vaping

Selected Publications

Articles

Cabello N, Mishra V, Sinha U, DiAngelo SL, Chroneos ZC, Ekpa NA, Cooper TK, Caruso CR, Silveyra P. Sex differences in the expression of lung inflammatory mediators in response to ozone. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2015 Nov 15;309(10):L1150-63. PMID: 26342085; PMCID: PMC4652152.

Mishra V, DiAngelo SL, Silveyra P. Sex-specific IL-6-associated signaling activation in ozone-induced lung inflammation. Biol Sex Differ. 2016;7:16. PMID: 26949510; PMCID: PMC4779258.

Fuentes N, Roy A, Mishra V, Cabello N, Silveyra P. Sex-specific microRNA expression networks in an acute mouse model of ozone-induced lung inflammation. Biol Sex Differ. 2018 May 8;9(1):18. PMID: 29739446; PMCID: PMC5941588

Fuentes N, Silveyra P. Endocrine regulation of lung disease and inflammation. Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 2018 Dec 3; PubMed PMID: 30509139. PMCID: PMC6348592

Fuentes, N., Silveyra, P. Lung microRNA Profiling Across the Estrous Cycle in Ozone-exposed Mice. J Vis Exp. 2019 Jan 7;(143). doi: 10.3791/58664. PMID: 30663642; PMCID: PMC6428684

Fuentes N, Cabello N, Mishra V, Nicoleau M, Silveyra P. Modulation of the lung inflammatory response to ozone by the estrous cycle. Physiol Rep. 2019 Mar;7(5):e14026. PMID: 30848106; PMCID: PMC6405886

Fuentes N, Nicoleau M, Cabello N, Montes D, Zomorodi N, Chroneos ZC, Silveyra P. 17ß-estradiol affects lung function and inflammation following ozone exposure in a sex-specific manner. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2019 Sep 25; PMID: 31553636; PMCID: PMC6879909