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Congratulations to 2015 Mississippi INBRE Research Scholar, Annabelle Clark from The University of Southern Mississippi. She recently received a grant from the Drapeau Center for Undergraduate Research for her research entitled, “Biochemical characterization of Glycine-Rich Proteins in the Lone Star tick (Amblyomma americanum).”

Congratulations to Dr. Sharon Hamilton for being awarded a grant from Mississippi INBRE Partner Undergraduate Institution, Delta State University from the Kent and Janice Wyatt Faculty Development Fund. Dr. Hamilton is a Mississippi INBRE Research Development Grant recipient.

Congratulations to 2015 Mississippi INBRE Research Scholar, Paige Allen from The University of Southern Mississippi. She recently received a grant from the Drapeau Center for Undergraduate Research for her research entitled, “Switching of sialome genes in Ehrlichia chaffeensis infected ticks.”

Dr. Shahid Karim, Mississippi INBRE Bioinformatics Core Director, recently received a grant from The University of Southern Mississippi for his research entitled “Assay development to quantify Selenium in tissues of an arthropod vector of infectious disease agents.”

Dr. Vijay Rangachari, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The University of Southern Mississippi, was recently awarded one of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) most competitive grants, the Research Project Grant or R01. This grant will enable him to further his research on Alzheimer’s disease. His research is supported in […]

Mississippi INBRE Program Director, Dr. Mohamed Elasri attended a workshop hosted by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute entitled, “Training the Next Generation of Implementation Researchers for Health Equity” in Bethesda, Maryland on August 30-31. Leaders and experts in the fields of implementation science, prevention science, health inequities research, and training and research workforce […]

Jackson State University student, Teylor Bowles was a member of the Class of 2013 Mississippi INBRE Research Scholars. Since her summer experience, she has continued her education and research experience in the lab of her mentor, Dr. Kedra Wallace. Besides presenting at the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, she has also presented at the Experimental Biology […]

Dr. Bidisha Sengupta, faculty member at Tougaloo College, published her research entitled, “Chiral alkylated-aniline as a noninvasive fluorescence sensor: Spectroscopic and molecular modeling studies” in the journal Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. Her research was funded by Mississippi INBRE.

Joshua Hurssey, senior at Mississippi Valley State University spent his summer doing research at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. His research is entitled, ““Evaluation of Bone Marrow and Subcutaneous Fat in Ovariectomized Rats Following Sustained Delivery of Estrogen or NPY – 1Receptor Antagonist.” His goal is to pursue an MD/PhD and to eventually become […]

Dr. Shahid Karim, Mississippi INBRE Bioinformatics Core Director from The University of Southern Mississippi, recently published his research entitled, “Catalase is a determinant of the colonization and transovarial transmission of Rickettsia parkeri in the Gulf Coast tick Amblyomma maculatum” in the journal Insect Molecular Biology. Dr. Karim’s research is funded by Mississippi INBRE.