25th Annual
Beltsville Area Poster Day
April 23, 2014 Main Page | High School Awards
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Winners of the 2013 Poster Day
Left to right: Saikat Kumar Ghosh, Jianwei Qin, Boce Zhang and Area Director Joseph Spence.
- First Prize:
- Dr. Boce Zhang
- Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory, BARC
- Kinetic study of pathogen inactivation and validation of minimum chlorine concentration and contact time required for preventing pathogen cross-contamination during produce wash operation
- Second Prize:
- Dr. Jianwei Qin
- Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory, BARC
- High-throughput Raman chemical imaging technology for food safety and quality evaluation
- Third Prize:
- Dr. Saikat Kumar B. Ghosh
- Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Labroatory, BARC
- Double stranded RNA-mediated interference (RNAi) as molecular biopesticide for control of the invasive pest Lymantria dispar
Judges for Scientist Division, left to right: Mark Mirando, Jude Maul, Jaspreet Ahuja, Shing Kwok and Matt Kramer
Beltsville Area Poster Day 2012 - High School Division
Winners of the High School Division 2014 Poster Day
Left to right: Sinmisola Tinubu, Harriet Dadzie, Crysta Onwu and FAR-B Vice President K. Darwin Murrell.
- First Prize:
- Sinmisola Tinubu, Eleanor Roosevelt High School
- Mentor: Don Weber and Megan Herlihy of Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavioral Laboratory (BARC)
- The brown marmorated stink bug as fertilizer for crops and garden plants
- Second Prize:
- Harriet Dadzie, Eleanor Roosevelt High School
- Mentors: JoAnne Crouch and Julie Byrd-Hebert of Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory (BARC)
- Vegetative incompatibility among isolates of Calonectria pseudonaviculata, the cause of boxwood blight disease
- Thrid Prize:
- Crystal Onwu, Charles H. Flowers High School
- Mentor: Mentor: Wayne Jurrick and Verneta Gaskins, Food Quality Laboratory, (BARC)
- Multiple dominant selectable markers for the development of a transformation system for Penicillium speciest
- Honorable Mention:
- Avery Lane and Jeggo Dy-cok, Charles H. Flowers High School
- Mentor: Tom Callsen, Cartography and GIS Services, Engineering and Construction Branch, Facilities Services Division
- Marginal Land Productivity Index
Judges for Student Division, left to right: Jenny Allen, ?, Deidre Chester, Joe Alfieri, Edith Blackwell, Bill Kustas, Monica Santin-Duran, Jianan Liu, Kathryn Semmens, Meena Somanchi, Jiujiang Yu and Martha Anderson
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