Commonwealth of Pennsylvania University Biologists

The annual Commonwealth of Pennsylvania University Biologists (CPUB) Meeting was held April 20-21, 2013 at Clarion University.

Student Awards

Kelsey Matthews (BS Biology, Pre-Med) received a CPUB Outstanding Student award. She also was honored in receiving 1st place for her research talk in the Cell and Molecular Biology – Undergraduate Presentation division.

Ghaith Ibrahim (MS Biology) won 2nd place in the Overall Graduate Student division, which included all graduate students in both the Ecology, Evolution and Organismal and Cellular and Molecular Biology divisions for platform and poster presentations.

Presentations

Testing the Effects of Signal Transduction Inhibitors on Azole Resistance in the Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen Candida glabrata
(Kelsey Matthews and Karl W. Henry)

The identification of a Putative Gcn5-like Histone Acetyltransferase and its Role in Antifungal Drug Resistance in Candida glabrata
(Ghaith Ibrahim and Karl W. Henry)