{"id":380,"date":"2016-11-01T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T22:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/biology\/?p=380"},"modified":"2016-11-01T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T22:01:10","slug":"biology-students-attended-the-2016-macub-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/2016\/11\/01\/biology-students-attended-the-2016-macub-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology Students Attended the 2016 MACUB Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 29,under the mentorship of Maria Agapito, Ph.D., biology students Suyapa Penalva &#8217;18, Merna Sawaged &#8217;19, Sophia Touri &#8217;18, Alexandra Marques &#8217;18, Summen Mushtaq &#8217;17 and Luigy Alfredo Cordova Burgos &#8217;17 represented Saint Peter\u2019s University at the 49th Annual Fall MACUB (Metropolitan Association of College and University Biologists) Conference held at SUNY Old Westbury, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p>Biology majors Catalina Melendez &#8217;17 and Abdul-Mumin Sanni-Adam &#8217;17 also presented their research poster, &#8220;Project FeederWatch: A Tale of Two Seasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_382\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-382\" class=\"wp-image-382 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/biology\/files\/2016\/11\/unnamed-6-400x298.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed-6\" width=\"400\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2016\/11\/unnamed-6-400x298.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2016\/11\/unnamed-6-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2016\/11\/unnamed-6-403x300.jpg 403w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2016\/11\/unnamed-6.jpg 771w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured from left are Jill Callahan, Ph.D., recording secretary for the 2016 MACUB executive board, Melendez, Abdul-Mumin and Katherine S. Wydner, Ph.D., their mentor.<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_381\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381\" class=\"wp-image-381 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/biology\/files\/2016\/11\/unnamed-4-copy-2-400x308.jpg\" alt=\"The research study of Penalva and Sawaged (pictured above) received first place under the development session.\" width=\"400\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2016\/11\/unnamed-4-copy-2-400x308.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2016\/11\/unnamed-4-copy-2-389x300.jpg 389w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2016\/11\/unnamed-4-copy-2.jpg 553w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The research study of Penalva and Sawaged (pictured above) received first place under the development session.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 29,under the mentorship of Maria Agapito, Ph.D., biology students Suyapa Penalva &#8217;18, Merna Sawaged &#8217;19, Sophia Touri &#8217;18, Alexandra Marques &#8217;18, Summen Mushtaq &#8217;17 and Luigy Alfredo Cordova Burgos &#8217;17 represented Saint Peter\u2019s University at the 49th Annual Fall MACUB (Metropolitan Association of College and University Biologists) Conference held at SUNY Old Westbury, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}