{"id":206849,"date":"2018-05-02T11:58:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/?p=206849"},"modified":"2018-05-02T11:58:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:58:23","slug":"students-receive-graduate-poster-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/2018\/05\/02\/students-receive-graduate-poster-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"CSAM Biology and Chemistry Students Receive Graduate Poster Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Meeting in Miniature was held on April 20, 2018 at Seton Hall University. The keynote speaker was the noted virologist, Dr. Vincent Racaniello Higgins, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Several CSAM students gave oral and poster presentations. Of the presenters, current and former CSAM students received each of the graduate poster awards. The award recipients, announced in order, were:<br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-fourth\"><figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/valerie-paschalis.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/valerie-paschalis.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Valerie Paschalis\"\/><\/figure><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-column three-fourths\">Valerie Paschalis\u00a0 (M.S. Pharmaceutical Biochemistry)<br \/>\nmentored by Dr. Sandra D. Adams (thesis advisor) and Dr. Lee H. Lee.<br \/>\n<em>Reducing the Spread of Herpes Infection:\u00a0 Inhibition of HSV-1 Binding by EGCG-S in Human Epithelial Cells<\/em><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-fourth\"><figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/ayuni-yussof.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/ayuni-yussof.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Ayuni Yussof\"\/><\/figure><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-column three-fourths\">Ayuni Yussof (M.S. Molecular Biology, 2016 alum currently a Ph.D. student at Seton Hall University mentored by Dr. Tinchun Chu.\u00a0 Dr. Chu, also a former student of Dr. Lee, earned her Masters degree at Montclair State.)<br \/>\nmentored by Dr. Lee H. Lee<br \/>\n<em>Inhibition of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Binding and Penetration by Theaflavin-3,3\u2019-digallate<\/em><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-fourth\"><figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/theresa-aponte.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/theresa-aponte.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Theresa Aponte\"\/><\/figure><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-column three-fourths\">Theresa Aponte (M.S. Molecular Biology)<br \/>\nmentored by Dr. Lee H. Lee.<br \/>\n<em>Green tea polyphenol EGCG-S as an antibacterial, antibiofilm, and antifungal agent<\/em><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Paschalis, Ayuni Yussof, and Theresa Aponte were awarded for their posters at the Theobald Smith Society, the New Jersey Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Meeting in Miniature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":206859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206849"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206858,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206849\/revisions\/206858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}