CUREs and Other Musings

Conferences

  • Andrea Price wins 2021 SCASM Student Poster prize!

    The Southern California chapter of the American Society of Microbiology (SCASM) holds every year in their Fall conference a Student Collegiate Poster competition. We are ecstatic that our own undergraduate researcher Andrea Price (IG @andreaevolves, Twitter @andreaevolves) won this prestigious… Continue reading

  • Virtual Presentation for EB2020

    Well, EB2020 (ASBMB 2020) did not happen in sunny San Diego as planned due to Covid-19. I was looking forward the conference both for myself, my students (one of them was going to the student poster competition), and my wonderful… Continue reading

  • More conferences and workshops

    It’s hard to believe January is well over half gone! Ana and I have been quite busy going to workshops and conferences to share our news and experiences. I attended a grantsmanship workshop January 9-10 hosted by the NSF STEM… Continue reading

  • Education Research Results and Presentations

    Ana and I are “dividing and conquering” in terms of sharing results. I am at the American Society for Microbiology’s annual meeting presenting our preliminary results on student outcomes while Ana is at a Gordon Research Conference doing the same.… Continue reading

  • Poster presentation accepted for ASM2017!

     ASM Microbe conference!  Needless to say, we are very excited. Just received some preliminary FT-IR data (this is a chemical analysis technique that can expose changes in the structure of materials) for one of the plastics, LDPE (that would be the… Continue reading

  • ISME impressions and poster link

     ISME16 started yesterday afternoon with the keynote address and today it was in full swing. It is my first time and so far I have been impressed with the scheduling (there seems to be plenty of time to attend the presentations, and… Continue reading