{"id":576,"date":"2016-10-13T20:36:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T20:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/ramc\/?p=576"},"modified":"2018-02-07T20:22:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T20:22:49","slug":"2016-winner-of-the-student-diversity-travel-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/ramc\/2016-winner-of-the-student-diversity-travel-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Winner of the Student Diversity Travel Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\"  style='background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;'><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row \"><div  class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion_builder_column_1_1  fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height 1_1\"  style='margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;\"  data-bg-url=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-text\"><p>The SIMB Diversity Travel Award was established to promote diversity and to increase the participation of underrepresented minority groups in the Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) amongst the graduate students making presentations at any SIMB sponsored meeting. SIMB would like to congratulate this year\u2019s winner, Brittany Forkus.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;border-top-width:1px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div  class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion_builder_column_1_3  fusion-one-third fusion-column-first 1_3\"  style='margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;width:30.6666%; margin-right: 4%;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;\"  data-bg-url=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/ramc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Forkus_Brittany-web.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" alt=\"\" title=\"Brittany Forkus\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/ramc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Forkus_Brittany-web-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/ramc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Forkus_Brittany-web.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div  class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion_builder_column_2_3  fusion-two-third fusion-column-last 2_3\"  style='margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;width:65.3333%'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;\"  data-bg-url=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-text\"><p>Brittany Forkus is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate in the chemical engineering program at the University of Minnesota, working with Professor Kaznessis in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (CEMS) on the development of antibiotic-alternatives for livestock use. Her research focuses on engineering probiotic bacteria to produce and secrete antimicrobial proteins with activity against foodborne pathogens. Outside of the lab, Brittany is an officer of the CEMS Women\u2019s group, an organization which works to promote the success of female graduate students. She is also a mentor for undergraduates and high-school students who are interested in bioengineering research<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-diversity","category-diversity-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/ramc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/ramc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/ramc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/ramc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/ramc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/ramc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/ramc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/ramc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/ramc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simbhq.org\/ramc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}