2024 Student Poster Competition Awardees
May 6, 2024
2024 Awardees
1st Place
- Madison Fleming - “Antibiotic Resistance Profiles of Escherichia coli Isolated from Chobe River Water in the Northern Botswana”
2nd Place
- Patrick Reilly and Troy Walker - “Utilizing In-Vitro Digestion to Measure the Effect of Trypsin Inhibitor Content and Toasting Temperature on Soybean Meal Digestibility"
3rd Place
- Liv Huselton - "Understanding the Food Safety Education Needs of Underserved Food Producers in Virginia"
1st Place
- Bhaswati Chowdhury - "Plasmid-Associated Antimicrobial Resistance, Virulence, and Metabolic Genes in Diverse Salmonella enterica Serovars"
2nd Place
- Wangyi Wei - "Enhancing Food Preservation with Single Atom Catalysts: A Novel Approach to Antimicrobial Packaging"
3rd Place
- Rakib Ehsan - "Functional Characterization of O22-Associated O Antigen Synthesis Genes for Accurate In Silico Serotype Prediction of O22 and O23 Serovars of Salmonella"
1st Place
- Megan Mershon - "Vineyard Nitrogen Management: Impacts on Wine Chemistry and Sensory Characteristics for Chardonel Grown in Virginia"
2nd Place
- Monica Osorio-Barahona - "Survival of Salmonella in Frozen Banana, Blueberry, Cantaloupe, and Sweet Corn"
3rd Place
- Felicia Fianu - "Enhancing Enzymatic Performance of Lactase through Covalent Immobilization on Polymeric Coating Fabricated via Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (iCVD)"
3rd Place
- William Tu - "Vegan Cheese: Improving Flavor and a Comparison of Sensory, Textural, and Physicochemical Properties"
1st Place
- Jingsi Liu - "Narrow-Wavelength Red LED Lighting on Quality and Aroma Expression of Hydroponic Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.)"
2nd Place
- Rebekah Miller - "Identifying Sensory Descriptors and Aroma-Active Compounds in Domestic Edamame"
3rd Place
- Cyril Ayuk Etaka - "Sanitation Interventions for Reducing Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes on Cordura and Canvas Harvest Bags"