The College of Agriculture & Natural Resources held its sixth annual Cornerstone event on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at University of Maryland featuring keynote speaker Ruben Echeverria from the Gates Foundation. The event also featured a student research poster session celebrating work associated with our Strategic Initiatives.
In total there were 75 poster submissions showcasing the depth and myriad of research, Extension, and teaching being undertaken in the college.
Posters were judged based on the following criteria: Organization, Clarity of Hypothesis, Objectives, Goals, Overall Scientific Quality, and Clarity of Oral Presentation.
Below is a listing of this year's winners categorized by Strategic Initiative.
Establish a Healthy Food System and Ensure Global Food and Nutritional Security
1st Place - TOMETO: Tomato Multiplex Editing for Trait Optimization - Wang, Ruiting (PSLA-Grad)
2nd Place - Discovery and mapping of FHB-resistant mutations in a susceptible wheat variety ‘Jagger’ - Chhabra, Bhavit (PSLA-Grad)
3rd Place - Preliminary assessment of palatability, degradability, and in vitro inclusion optimization of black soldier fly larvae when added as a substitute for soybean meal in dairy cattle - Craig, Helen (ENTM-Grad)
Ensure Healthy Watersheds and the Chesapeake Bay
1st Place - Sediment Contamination by Copper Antifouling Paints - Thrift, Jesse (ENST-Grad)
2nd Place - Comparative Reproductive and Hepatic DNA Damage in Anacostia River Fundulus Species - Malik, Sabine (ENST-Grad)
3rd Place - Characterization of liver DNA damage in the Anacostia River using Fundulus heteroclitus - Chytil, Hana (ENST-Undergrad)
Advance Innovative, Profitable, and Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems
1st Place - CRISPR enabled Understanding of Fitness Costs Associated with fungicide resistance in Botrytis cinerea - Repp, Jacqueline (PSLA-Grad)
2nd Place - Assessing behavior of dairy cattle to determine palatability in response to feed with black soldier fly larvae as a protein substitute - Eylanbekov, Jenna (ENTM-Undergrad)
3rd Place - IBDV VP3 encodes a disordered region that modulates the properties of LLPS virus factories - Brodrick, Andrew (ANSC-Grad)
One Health: Improve Human, Animal, and Environmental Health
1st Place - A Comparison of Isoflavone-Metabolizing Phenotypes and its Relationship to Cardiovascular Disease Risk - Childs, Holly (NFSC-Grad)
2nd Place - Genotypes of Multidrug Resistance Bacteria Isolated from Urban Farms - Harrelson, Erin (NFSC-Grad)
3rd Place - Knockdown of translocon-associated protein subunit beta (TRAPβ) stimulates cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in human colorectal cancer cells - Amarakoon, Darshika (NFSC-Grad)
Optimize Urban Environments Through Design, Green Technology, and Community Engagement
1st Place - Echos of the Rain: Leveraging Social Media to Capture Stormwater Perceptions and Environmental Engagement in the Washington Metropolitan Area, USA - Si, Qianyao (ENST-Grad)
2nd Place - Assessing the Variability in Critical Material and Quality Attributes of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) for Bioenergy Production - Nabulime, Maureen (ENST-Grad)
3rd Place - The UMD EcoWellness Walk - Chu, Esmé (ENST-Undergrad)
