Undergraduate student takes home honors at Idaho biomedical research conference

Biochemistry undergraduate student Hassan Mohammed won second place for the Undergraduate Fellows Student Choice at the 2024 IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Statewide Research Conference.

A student in Professor Ken Cornell's lab, Mohammed's award-winning research poster is titled "Efficacy of Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasma in Inactivating Pathogens on Plant Seeds." Mohammed conducts research using plasma devices for virus and bacteria inactivation, and reducing contamination on plant seeds and surfaces. The goal of his research is to prevent the spread of harmful pathogens in agriculture, protecting both crops and consumers.

Mohammed presented at the conference to complete his 10-week tenure in the Idaho INBRE Summer Fellows Program. This fellowship is a competitive monetary award for students to conduct mentored research. The program pays each awarded INBRE fellow to work full-time in an established faculty laboratory for 10 weeks during the summer. In addition to conducting guided research, INBRE fellows will attend professional development and scientific seminar presentations and will prepare a poster highlighting their work to be presented at the Idaho INBRE Statewide Research Conference in Moscow.

The project described was supported by an Institutional Development Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Grant #P20GM103408. The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIH.

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