MSP brings home 18 awards at the 2019 ABRCMS conference!

MSP Participants 2019

18 MSP students won awards at the 2019 ABRCMS conference in Anaheim, CA.

ABRCMS attracts approximately 2,300 undergraduate and postbaccalaureate students from over 350 U.S. colleges and universities. The following list includes the name of the MSP student that received the award (first author of the poster), the name of co-authors and principal investigator (last author), research title and category of the award:

 

Sabrina Estrada, Dr. Amelie Garenaux, Dr. Luis Mota-Bravo
Class 1 integron from clinical multi-drug resistant bacteria found in a conjugative plasmid in an environmental Citrobacter freundii from the Hudson River, NY
Poster Category: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

 

 

 

 

 

Kelsey N. Salcido, Dr. Claudia A. Benavente
Role of UHRF1 in osteosarcoma and its relationship with RB
Poster Category: Cancer Biology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ruby Castillo, Amelie Garenaux, PhD, Luis Mota-Bravo, PhD
A multidrug resistant ESBL-producing Klebsiella oxytocaIsolated from the environment carries a conjugative plasmid related to clinical isolates
Poster Category: Cell Biology

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joe C. Gonzales, Gaurav Jha, Joshua M. Ziegler, Liektra Andoni, and Reginald M. Penner
Programming mesoporosity of Niobium (V) Oxide thin films
Poster Category: Chemistry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Francisco J. Brenes; Amelie Garenaux, PhD.; Luis Mota-Bravo, PhD.
Environmental Escherichia coli as a source of agriculturally associated resistance to Chloramphenicol and Tetracycline antibiotics
Poster Category: Computational and Systems Biology

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ashley Urrutia Avila, Amelie Garenaux, PhD, Luis Mota-Bravo, PhD
Plasmid-borne class 1 integron harboring antibiotic resistance gene cassettes in an environmental Klebsiella oxytoca
Poster Category: Computational and Systems Biology

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hugo Mendez, Dr. Iván Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Dr. Luis Mota-Bravo
Plasmid of a Citrobacter freundii from a Canada goose in New York carries a globally dispersed integron with antibiotic resistance genes
Poster Category: Developmental Biology and Genetics

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ieeshiah Otarola, Wendy Wnderski, and Gerald Crabtree, PhD.
Role of estrogen in serotonergic neuronal development and function
Poster Category: Developmental Biology and Genetics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aldo J. Muñoz, Iván Muñoz-Gutiérrez, and Luis Mota-Bravo
Escherichia coli Isolate from the Hudson River carries antibiotic resistant and enterotoxin-coding senBgenes in plasmids
Poster Category: Developmental Biology and Genetics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sofia Alfaro; Michelle Digman, Ph.D.; and Francesco Palomba, Ph.D.
Mapping active p53 proteins using confocal microscopy
Poster Category: Engineering, Physics, and Mathematics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leslie Vazquez, Dr. Iván Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Dr. Luis Mota-Bravo
Escherichia coli from a migratory bird harbors a plasmid carrying a virulence factor and antibiotic resistance Genes
Poster Category: Microbiology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karina Navarro Alvarez, Dr. Amelie Garenaux, and Dr. Luis Mota-Bravo
Resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics through a conjugative pasmid carrying an IS1294-blaCMY-2 transposition unit in an environmental Escherichia coli
Poster Category: Microbiology

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sarah N. Batarseh, Tiffany N. Batarseh, Shaun M. Hug Ph.D., Brandon S. Gaut Ph.D.
Investigating thermal niche trade-offs associated with evolutionary rescue mutations in Escherichia coli
Poster Category: Microbiology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gisselle Jimenez, Dr. Amelie Garenaux, Dr. Luis Mota-Bravo
Multi-drug resistance conjugative plasmid carrying ESBL-encoding gene shared between environmental and community-associated Escherichia coli isolates
Poster Category: Microbiology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rosa G. Serrano, A.J. Dukes, A. Pushkin, J.P. Fowler, V. Lallai and C.D. Fowler
The effects of adolescent nicotine and cannabinoid exposure on adult behavior
Poster Category: Neuroscience

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alyssa C. Carrillo, Iván Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Ph.D., Luis Mota-Bravo, Ph.D.
Escherichia coli from an aquatic migratory bird from New York carries a novel conjugative multidrug-resistant plasmid
Poster Category: Physiology and Pharmacology

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jazmin Candelario, Dr. Amelie Garenaux, Dr. Luis Mota-Bravo
Conjugative plasmid with an IS26 flanked multi-drug resistance region found in environmental Escherichia coli
Poster Category: Physiology and Pharmacology

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Not Pictured) Andrew J. Alvarez, Brendan T. Finicle, Aimee L. Edinger Starving cancer cells by activating a protein phosphatase
Poster Category: Cancer Biology