{"id":5352,"date":"2026-06-10T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2026-06-10T10:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:59:43","slug":"biology-undergraduates-present-research-at-national-microbiology-conference-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/2026\/06\/10\/biology-undergraduates-present-research-at-national-microbiology-conference-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology undergraduates present research at national microbiology conference in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Marshall University Biological Sciences undergraduate students recently represented the College of Science on a national stage, presenting their research at the American Society for Microbiology\u2019s Microbe Meeting in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Jenna Reeves and Josie Barker, both students in the Department of Biological Sciences, completed their project in Dr. Im\u2019s research lab. Their study, titled \u201cCharacterization of metabolic behaviors and antibiotic resistance among clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae from the Appalachian region,\u201d explores important questions related to infectious disease and public health.<\/p>\n<p>The students\u2019 work focuses on how bacterial isolates behave metabolically and respond to antibiotics. Their findings contribute to a growing understanding of regional health challenges and the factors that influence treatment outcomes. Having their poster accepted for presentation at a major professional conference marks an early milestone in their academic careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Marshall University Biological Sciences undergraduate students recently represented the College of Science on a national stage, presenting their research at the American Society for Microbiology\u2019s Microbe Meeting in Washington, D.C. Jenna Reeves and Josie Barker, both students in the Department of Biological Sciences, completed their project in Dr. Im\u2019s research lab. Their study, titled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":5353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,75,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-research","category-science-abstracts"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/files\/biology-reeves-barker-microbiology-conference.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5354,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions\/5354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}