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- Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science Hosts 33rd Annual Turfgrass Symposium
- Rutgers University Scientists in Micronesia to Advance Food Security Initiatives
Publications
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Structure-Function Analysis of the A1 Subunit of Shiga Toxin 2 with Peptides That Target the P-Stalk Binding Site and Inhibit Activity.
Li XP, Rudolph MJ, Chen Y, Tumer NE. Biochemistry. 2024 Mar 11. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.3c00733. Online ahead of print. PMID: 38467020 -
Structure-based design and optimization of a new class of small molecule inhibitors targeting the P-stalk binding pocket of ricin.
Rudolph MJ, Dutta A, Tsymbal AM, McLaughlin JE, Chen Y, Davis SA, Theodorous SA, Pierce M, Algava B, Zhang X, Szekely Z, Roberge JY, Li XP, Tumer NE. Bioorg Med Chem. 2024 Feb 15;100:117614. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2024.117614. Epub 2024 Feb 5. PMID: 38340640
Awards and Honors
- Nilgun Tumer was awarded a new NIH R01 grant for $3,494,012.
Title: Small molecule inhibitors targeting the ribosome binding site of ricin and Shiga toxin
Project Number: 1R01AI178870-01A1
Contact PI/Project Leader: TUMER, NILGUN E
Awardee Organization: RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIV OF N.J.
Duration : March 1, 2024–Jan 31, 2029.
- Dr. Xenia Morin served as an expert judge for the New Jersey Youth Institute for the World Food Prize. This program, hosted by the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, and held at Rutgers Busch Campus on March 8, 2024, bought 135 high school students to campus. Judges provided feedback to students who presented their research on food security in different countries around the world.
For more information see:
New Jersey Youth Institute World Food Prize
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New Jersey Youth Institute - Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey (NOFA-NJ) Annual Meeting, January 27, 2024. Xenia Morin, on behalf of the team, showed Fields of Devotion, the short science-in-action documentary followed by a moderated question-and-answer session. Rob Mattera III, Alex Barrett and Trevor Styles participated in the Q&A.
- Holly Club of Sea Girt, Sea Girt NJ, March 7, 2024. Xenia Morin, on behalf of the team, showed Fields of Devotion, the short science-in-action documentary. Dr Morin fielded a wide range of questions during the 30 minute question-and-answer session following the screening.
- Garden State Film Festival, March 24, 2024. Screening of Life on the Edge: Exploring New Jersey's Coastal Ecosystems followed by filmmaker Q&A. Xenia Morin took two of the three students from the Spring 2023 Agriculture and Food Systems Independent Study Course to the event. Shown below are SEBS students Micah Seidel (Biological Sciences major) and Angie Catt (Agriculture and Food Systems Major); missing Natalie Radu (SEBS Plant Science Minor). Oscar Schofield was the producer of the film. Daphne Monroe's research is featured in this film. Xenia Morin was the agriculture and food systems faculty advisor and Dena Seidel was the Science Storytelling Advisor.
The film won best "Home Grown Student Short Documentary" in the college category.
- Nrupali Patel, assistant teaching professor and Undergraduate Program Director in Plant Science, and Chitra Ponnusamy, assistant teaching professor and Undergraduate Program Director of Food Science, are co-PIs of a $15,000 Rutgers Global Faculty Innovation in Global Learning grant to develop a winter study abroad course, "Applying immersive learning to rural agro-food issues: Study Abroad in Southern India."
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