Congratulations to 16 of our MSP students who recently received best poster awards for their research at the 2018 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for MinorityStudents (ABRCMS) in Indianapolis, Indiana. Poster and oral presentations were given by over 2,000 undergraduate and postbaccalaureate students from more than 350 U.S. colleges and universities at one of the nation’s largest conferences for underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The School’s Minority Science Programs initiative was created in a joint effort with the National Institutes of Health. Its primary goal is to increase minority participation in the biological sciences. The program is run by director Luis Mota-Bravo, Ph.D., and associate director Marlene de laCruz, Ph.D. Participants in the program conduct research projects with faculty mentors and present their projects at national conferences.
The following list includes the names of the MSP students who received an award (first author of the poster), along with the names of co-authors and principal investigators (last author), and their research title:
2018 ABRCMS, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Karina Barragan, Andrey Tatarenkov
and Luis Mota-Bravo (PI). Mobilization of Antibiotic Resistance Genes on a
Plasmid of Environmental Bacterium Citrobacter freundii.
- Christian Checkcinco, Andrey
Tatarenkov and Luis Mota-Bravo (PI). Mobile Class 1 Integron Containing
Antibiotic Resistant Genes is Newly Described in Environmental
Enterobacter kobei.
- Moisés Favela, Iván Muñoz-Gutiérrez
and Luis Mota-Bravo (PI). Various Mobilization Events Leading to the
Acquisition of Multidrug Resistance in an Environmental Escherichia coli
Plasmid.
- Joseph Garcia, Mark Richardson,
Shareen Ashby, Kristen Gabriel, Rebekah Dyer, John Hong, Sudipta Majumdar
and Gregory A. Weiss (PI). Optimization of a Selective
Sulfhydryldimethylmaleimide Click Reaction.
- Nathalie Iribe, Julius A. Edson and
Young J. Kwon (PI). Determining the Optimal Conditions for Synthesis of
Acid-Transforming Chitosan for Use as a Nanoantibiotic.
- Micah M. Lawrence, Iván
Muñoz-Gutiérrez and Luis Mota-Bravo (PI). Mobilization of Antibiotic
Resistance Gene aac(3)-IIa into Escherichia coli by a Single IS26
Transposon.
- Roman A. Meza Jr., Nicholas Chim
and John Chaput (PI). Structural Characterization of a Replicative DNA
Polymerase with Unexpected Reverse-Transcriptase Activity.
- Sarah Najera, Amelie Garenaux and
Luis Mota-Bravo (PI). First Report of an ESBL-encoding blaCTX-M-27
Antibiotic Resistance Gene Coupled with European Antibiotic Resistance
Gene Cassette.
- Edward Oropeza, Nicholas Chim and
John Chaput (PI). Structural Characterization of an RNA-cleaving FANA
enzyme.
- Cuauhtémoc B. Ramirez, Brendan T.
Finicle and Aimee L. Edinger (PI). Role of Serine288 Phosphorylation in
EndophilinA2 Function.
- Isaryhia Rodriguez, Lorrayne Serra,
Bryan Rodriguez, Cassandra McGill and Ali Mortazavi (PI). Comparative
Transcriptomics of Heads and Tails between Steinernema carpocapsae and
Caenorhabditis elegans.
- Alyza Roman, Amelie Garenaux and
Luis Mota-Bravo (PI). Co-occurrence of blaCMY-2 and a TnAs3-Associated
Rare Integron on an IncI1 Plasmid in a Multidrug Resistant Environmental
Escherichia coli.
- Jack Shanahan, Ivan Munoz and Luis
Mota-Bravo (PI). A Novel Combination of Plasmid Mediated Antibiotic
Resistant and Heavy Metal Resistant Genes in Environmental Klebsiella
pneumoniae.
- Sarah Singh, Andrey Tatarenkov and
Luis Mota-Bravo (PI). Complete Sequence of an Escherichia coli IncF
Plasmid Showing Mobilization of blaCMY-2 Gene by IS1294 Transposase.
- JoAnne Villagrana, Andrey
Tatarenkov and Luis Mota-Bravo (PI). Escherichia coli ST1193 from Natural
Environment Carries Novel Multidrug-Resistant Region Formed by
Transposition.
- Evelyn Zarate-Sanchez, Andrey
Tatarenkov and Luis Mota-Bravo (PI). New Multidrug-Resistant Region in
Klebsiella oxytoca from the Environment.