Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, Ph.D

Dr. Eduardo Rosa-Molinar
  • Director, Microscopy Analytical Imaging Research Resource Core Laboratory (MAI)
  • Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Contact Info

Work Number:
785-864-4380
Haworth Hall, Room 1043
Lawrence
1200 Sunnyside Ave.
Lawrence, KS 66045

Education —

B.S., University of Alabama
Ph.D., University of Nebraska Medical Center
Post Doctoral Training, Creighton University School of Medicine

Research —

Dr. Rosa-Molinar and his group's research focus on neurotechnology, specifically developing/refining reagents, tools, and workflows for multi-scale multi-modal correlated volume resin microscopies, in order to determine the three-dimensional nano-scale geometry and chemical composition of synapses. Dr. Rosa-Molinar and his group are particularly interested in “mixed synapses”, a poorly studied synapse that combines the features of both chemical and electrical (e,g., gap junction) synapses.

Teaching —

Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, Ph.D. is the Director of the Microscopy and Analytical Imaging Research Resource Core Laboratory, Professor (tenured) of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Neuroscience Graduate Program and Professor within the Bioimaging Science Track in the Bioengineering Graduate Program at the University of Kansas School of Engineering. Until June 2015, he was a tenured Professor of Integrative Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, and the Institute of Neurobiology in Puerto Rico.

Selected Publications —

Names that are underlined indicate current and former laboratory members, including technicians undergraduate and graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows.

Peer-Reviewed Papers and Extended Abstracts (submitted/in revision)

  1. Jarosova, R.; Woolfolk, S.K.; Martinez-Rivera, N.; Jaeschke, M.W.; Rosa-Molinar, E.; Tamerler, C.; Johnson, M.A. (2023).  Spatiotemporal Imaging of Zinc Ions in Zebrafish Live Brain Tissue Enabled by Fluorescent Bionanoprobes. Molecules 2023, 28, 2260.

  2. Martinez-Rivera N, Serrano-Velez JL, Torres-Vazquez II, Langerhans RB, Rosa-Molinar E. (2022).  Are superficial neuromasts proprioceptors underlying fast copulatory behavior? Front Neural Circuits. 2022 Aug 23;16:921568.

  3. *Reynolds, K.A., *Rosa-Molinar, E., Ward, R.E., Urbanowicz, B.R., Settles, A,M. (2021). Accelerating biological insight for understudied genes. Integrative and Comparative Biology, Volume 61, Issue 6, December 2021, Pages 2233–2243  (*K.A.R and E.R-M contributed equally to this work).

  4. Langerhans, R.B. and Rosa-Molinar, E. (2021). A novel body plan alters diversification of body shape and genitalia in live-bearing fish. Front. Ecol. Evol. 2021 Feb 3; 9:619232. 

  5. Kopec, B.M., Kiptoo, P., Zhao, L., Rosa-Molinar, E., and Siahaan, T.J. (2020). Noninvasive Brain Delivery and Efficacy of BDNF to Stimulate Neuroregeneration and Suppression of Disease Relapse in EAE Mice. Mol Pharm. 3;17(2):404-416.

  6. Kopec, B.M., Zhao, L., Rosa-Molinar, E., and Siahaan, T.J. (2020). Efficacy Evaluation of Non- Invasive Brain Delivery of BDNF in APP/PS1 Transgenic Mice. Med Res Arch. 8(2): 2043-2064.

  7. J. Y. Song, N. R. Larsona, S. Thatia, I. I. Torres-Vazquez, N. Martinez-Rivera, N. J. Subelzu- Aispuru, M. A. Leon, E. Rosa-Molinar, C. Schöneich, C. R. Middaugh, and C. J. Berkland (2019). Glatiramer acetate persists at the injection site and draining lymph nodes via electrostatically- induced aggregation. J. Controlled Release 293:36-47. PubMed PMID: 30414463.

Peer-Reviewed Papers (published)

  1. Shinogle-Decker, H., Martinez-Rivera, N., O’Brien, J., Powell, R. D., Joshi, V. N., Connell, S., and Rosa- Molinar, E. Correlative FRET: new method improves rigor and reproducibility in determining distances within synaptic nanoscale architecture. Proc. SPIE 10499, Three- Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XXV, 1049920; 23 February 2018.

  2. Thapa-Chetri, P.S., Santiago-Robles, C. M., Martinez-Rivera, N., Torres-Vazquez, I. I., Joshi, V. N., Powell, R. D., and Rosa-Molinar, E. Development and characterization of nanoparticles as imaging probes for correlative optical and electron microscopy, 2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), Pittsburgh, PA, 2017, pp. 159-163.

Grants & Other Funded Activity —

Active

2R25 NS-089462 (Rosa-Molinar) (PI) 08/15/2019-07/31/2024 0.9 cal. month

NINDS $1,694,046.00 (direct)

Neuroscience Scholars Program (NSP): Preparing the Next Generation of Neuroscience Leaders (Awarded to: Society for Neuroscience)

2022-NIST-CIPP-01 (Jensen) (co-PI) 08/01/22-05/31/23 0.6 cal. mos.

USDOC $5,000,000.00 (direct)

KU Cancer Center NIST Research Equipment

3P30CA168524-11S2 (Jensen) (co-PI) 07/01/22-06/30/23 0.6 cal. mos.

NCI $38,250.00 (direct)

P30 CATCH UP Above Accrual Goal Administrative Supplement Request