2025
Dr Den and Dr Smyth have an accepted paper in the Texas Water Journal
Den, W. and Smyth, D.S. How Texas Might Lead the Nation in Addressing a Growing Water Workforce Problem. Accepted to the Texas Water Journal.
Dr. Smyth is headed to ASM Microbe to take part in several events - she will be receiving the ASM Carski Award
Dr. Smyth received a College of Arts and Science College Grant- From SARS-COV-2 to Superbugs: How understanding aerosols can help us prevent airborne infection in classroom settings. ($10000)
Dr. Smyth gave her first American Society for Microbiology Distinguished Lecturer Talk on Feb 21st
2024
Dr Smyth received the A&M-SA College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Tenured Faculty Teaching Award
Dr Smyth was selected as an American Society of Microbiology Distinguished Lecturer
Dr Smyth received the American Society of Microbiology Carski Award for Undergraduate Education
Dr Smyth published a paper on ePortfolios with Dr. Theresa Conefrey from Santa Clara University
Conefrey, T. and Smyth D. S, and others. ePortfolios to Promote Equity, Engaged Learning, and Professional Identity Development in STEM. From research to application: ePortfolio practice across the disciplines. Online. June 27th.
Dr Smyth gave an invited talk at North Carolina State University
Smyth, D.S. CUREing your teaching with microbiomes. MOBE Workshop on the Societal and Ethical Implications of Microbiome Engineering in Built Environments. Invited Talk. May 15th. North Carolina State University.
Dr. Smyth gave a keynote at Princeton
Smyth, D.S. STEM Educators as Civic Educators. Achieving Broader Impacts through Community-Engaged STEM Teaching. Keynote Address. May 21st. Princeton University, New Jersey.
Dr Smyth gave an invited keynote at St. Philips Community College
Smyth, D.S. STEM Educators as Civic Educators. Women Breaking Through Conference. Keynote Address. St. Philip’s Community College. Friday April 12th.
Dr. Smyth gave an invited online keynote
Smyth, D.S. Using Bioinformatics in the Classroom: Research experiences with microbiomes. Brewmor 2024. Online Keynote Address. Feb 9th, 2024.
Dr. Smyth gave an online talk at Santa Clara University
Smyth, D.S. and others. SENCERizing Your CUREs and All of Us Research Workbench. 36th Annual California State University (CSU) Biotech Symposium. Santa Clara, CA. Jan 11th. Talk.
Dr. Smyth gave an invited talk at SICB
Smyth, D.S. STEM Educators as Civic Educators. SICB 2024, Seattle, Wa. Jan 6, 2023. Talk.
Dr. Smyth and colleagues published an article on the new ASM Curriculum Guidelines
Boury, N., Siegesmund, A., Kushner, D.B., Smyth, D.S., Allen, M.E., Frazier, A., Gillette-Ferguson, I., Markum M., Patriquin, G., Reynolds, S.E., Rosario, S., Steel, J.J., and Horak R.0. Updated ASM Curriculum Guidelines describe core microbiology content to modernize the framework for microbiology education. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 0:e00126-24.https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00126-24
Dr Smyth gave an invited talk
Smyth, D.S. One Health Course. Universidad de la República de Uruguay | UdelaR · Instituto de Higiene. Facultad de Medicina. November 28th. On Zoom
Dr Smyth gave an invited talk
Smyth, D.S. What bacteria can teach us about the built environment. Microbes and Social Equity Speaker Series. July 26th. On Zoom.
Dr Smyth gave an invited talk
Smyth, D.S. What bacteria can tell us about the built environment. Jan 19th. Stonehill College. On Zoom.
Dr. Smyth was quoted in Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03009-w
Dr. Smyth was featured on KSAT https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2024/07/29/texas-am-university-san-antonios-wastewater-contamination-project-gets-federal-boost/
Dr. Smyth was featured on San Antonio Report https://sanantonioreport.org/what-germs-are-in-our-water-this-tamusa-scientist-and-her-students-are-finding-out/
Dr. Smyth was featured on San Antonio Express https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/wastewater-covid-bacteria-surveillance-san-antonio-19580144.php
Dr Smyth was featured on Wastewater Digest
Dr. Smyth was featured on Hoodline
Dr. Smyth and POOP Troop are headed to ASM Microbe 2023
Dr. Smyth is headed to SICB 2024
Dr. Smyth received a Research Council Award- Water Quality Monitoring and Characterization of Chemical and Biological Contamination in the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone ($10000) – PI
Dr. Smyth and colleagues published a paper
Mendoza-Sanchez, I., Smyth, D.S., Mendez, M.O., Pearl, T., Rifai, H., Howell, N., and Butler, E. (2024). Deployment of wastewater-based public health monitoring systems in small rural communities of Texas. Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education. 180:37-68.
Dr. Smyth and colleagues published a paper
Van Bemmelen, J., Smyth, D.S., and Baaijens, J.A. (2024). AmpliDiff: An Optimized Amplicon Sequencing Approach to Estimating Lineage Abundances in Viral Metagenomes. 25, 126 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-024-05735-4
Dr. Smyth received funding from NSF
NSF Subaward - Addressing Water Security: towards Student Retention, Improved Relevance, and Increased Readiness ($59981) – PI
2023
Dr. Smyth gave an invited seminar
Smyth, D.S. What bacteria can tell us about the built environment. Nov 27th. Trinity University, San Antonio.
Dr. Smyth gave an inaugural seminar
Smyth, D.S. What bacteria can tell us about the built environment. Sept 21st. Texas A&M University-San Antonio. Inaugural speaker for the College of Arts and Sciences Seminar Series.
Dr. Smyth gave an invited seminar
Smyth, D.S. What bacteria can tell us about the built environment. Sept 29th. University of North Texas, Invited Seminar.
Dr. Smyth gave an invited keynote
Smyth, D.S. What bacteria can tell us about the built environment. Aug 25th. Keynote Address. UTEP Biosciences Research Day. The University of Texas at El Paso.
Dr. Smyth gave an invited online seminar
Smyth, D.S. What microbes can tell us about the built environment. Invited seminar at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico. Via Zoom. 8th of May, 2023.
Dr. Smyth gave an invited seminar
Smyth, D.S. Waste not want not. Invited Seminar at Florida International University. 18th of April.
Dr Smyth and POOP Troop are headed to ASM Microbe 2023
Dr. Smyth is headed to BIOME
Dr. Smyth is headed to POGIL
Dr. Smyth published a paper with colleagues
Cancela, F., Ramos, N., Smyth, D.S., Etchebehere, C., Berois, M., Rodríguez, J., Rufo, C., Alemán, A., Borzacconi, L., López, J., González, E., Botto, G., Mirazo, S., & Trujillo, M. (2023). Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 genomic populations on a country-wide scale through targeted sequencing. PLoS ONE 18(4): e0284483. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284483
Dr. Smyth published a paper with colleagues
Conefrey, T. and Smyth, D.S. ePortfolios to promote equity, engaged learning, and professional identity development in STEM. (2023). [Special issue on ePortfolios Across the Disciplines] Across the Disciplines, 20(3/4), 110-134, https://doi.org/10.37514/ATD-J.2023.20.3-4.07
Dr. Smyth published a paper with colleagues
Narayanan, M., Powers, K., Nagaraj, R., Liou-Mark, J., Smyth, D. S and Knopp-Kelly, M. (2023). Peer leader perspectives from a randomized PLTL implementation in a Hispanic Serving Institution. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education 24(3) e00075-23. DOI:doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00075-23.
Dr. Smyth published a paper with colleagues
Smyth, D.S., Jordan, T., Seiser, R., Moran, M., Hasagar, U., Sorby, S., Kahl, N., Shachter, A. and Oates, K. (2023). Promoting RAPID Vaccine Science Education at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education 24(2) e00051-23. DOI:doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00051-23
Dr. Smyth was quoted on Axios https://www.axios.com/local/des-moines/2023/07/07/iowa-struggling-emerging-covid-19-variants
Dr. Smyth was featured on the Science Before The Storm Podcast https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/science-before-the-storm/episodes/Microbial-Muses-Finding-Inspiration-for-Student-Reading-and-Research-through-Microbiology-e23gbk9/a-a9pe3n9
Dennis received funding
Texas Ecological Laboratory Program – Submitted by mentee Dennis Guillen Castro ($6850) – Mentor
Dr. Smyth received funding from NSF - Collaborative Research: HSI Pilot Project: WaTR3: Retention, relevance, and readiness through bridging water security issues in San Antonio ($299973) – PI
Dr. Smyth secured an anonymous donation to the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement to support Wastewater Based Education Fellows Program ($60000) - Co-PI
2022
Dr. Smyth gave an online seminar
Smyth, D.S. How the Built environment can be used to surveil for new and emerging pathogens. Truman State. Dec 2nd. Online Seminar.
Dr. Smyth gave an invited seminar
Smyth, D.S. What bacteria can tell us about the built environment. Texas State University. Nov 4th.
Dr. Smyth gave an invited seminar
Smyth, D.S. What microbes can tell us about the built environment. Duke University. Sept 20th. Online.
Dr. Smyth led a panel at ASM Microbe
Smyth, D.S. In-depth Symposium. AES04. Wastewater-based Epidemiology: SARS-CoV-2 and Other Emerging Pathogens, June 12th, ASM Microbe, Washington DC
Dr. Smyth gave an invited seminar
Smyth, D.S. Waste not want not. March 25th. Texas Branch Meeting of ASM. Online talk.
Dr. Smyth gave an plenary address
Smyth, D.S. Waste not want not. SENCER Center of Innovation MidAtlantic. Spring Regional Symposium. Jan 15th. Plenary.
Dr. Smyth gave an invited seminar
Smyth, D.S. Waste not want not. Feb 18th. Texas Woman's University. In-person seminar.
Dr Smyth was featured on MedPage Today https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/100397
Dr. Smyth published a paper with colleagues
Smyth, D.S., Chen, S*., Sompanya, G., Metz, M. and Conefrey, T. (2022). How getting friendly with bacteria can promote student appreciation of microbial diversity and their civic scientific literacy. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education 23(2) e00055-22. DOI: doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00055-22
Dr. Smyth received a College of Arts and Science College Grant- From SARS-CoV-2 to Superbugs: How wastewater surveillance can be used to monitor community transmission of antibiotic-resistant microbes ($10000) – PI
Dr Smyth is headed to ASM Microbe 2022
Dr. Smyth featured on NPR
Dr. Smyth featured on Inside Higher Ed
Dr. Smyth featured on the Academic minute June 3rd 2022
Dr. Smyth featured in the Irish Examiner
Dr. Smyth featured on the Qiagen Blog
Dr. Smyth featured on the TPRs Petrie Dish April 20th https://www.tpr.org/podcast/petrie-dish/2022-04-20/wastewater-testing-could-help-control-covids-spread-why-isnt-it-happening-across-america
Dr. Smyth featured in the San Antonio Express
Dr Smyth featured on BBC World Service radio March 17th 2022
Dr Smyth quoted on How Stuff Works https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/cellular-microscopic/tracking-coronavirus-wastewater.htm
Dr. Smyth quoted on Live Science https://www.livescience.com/author/stephanie-pappas
Dr. Smyth quoted in Thrillist https://www.thrillist.com/news/new-york/nyc-rats-developed-their-own-covid-strain
Project mentioned on Late Night with Colbert https://twitter.com/ProfSmyth/status/1490063083401879555?s=20&t=krfpi8tK9AcHb1_mxcUwMg
Dr. Smyth featured in the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/health/coronavirus-wastewater-new-york.html
Dr. Smyth featured in the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/health/covid-omicron-wastewater-sewage.html
Dr. Smyth written about in Forbes Magazine https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2021/09/13/animal-reservoirs-of-covid-19-may-trigger-new-rounds-of-human-disease/?sh=687ee3441776
Dr. Smyth featured on SA Smart Chats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c6Kk9_wH94 Jan 26th 2022
Dr. Smyth appeared in a webinar “Moving beyond SARS-CoV-2 surveillance: How can next-generation sequencing support wastewater-based epidemiology?” Qiagen Webinar Dec 14th 2021
Dr. Smyth featured on A&M SA Today https://news.tamusa.edu/professors-provide-their-sustainability-insights/ 19th Nov 2021
Dr. Smyth featured on TAMUSA’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CVfhQMYFcbF/ Oct 26th 2021
Dr. Smyth featured on the Qiagen Blog https://www.qiagen.com/us/knowledge-and-support/knowledge-hub/science-matters/genomics/certainty-at-a-time-of-uncertainty-an-accurate-picture-of-circulating-sars-cov-2-variants?cmpid=CM_GEN_NGSR_InFocusPost-SARSCoV2NGSblog_1221_Harvard&intcmp=atlas261
Wastewater project mentioned in https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/7/29/22600656/covid-mutations-in-new-york-city-sewage-possible-dog-rat Jul 29th 2021
Dr Smyth featured on This Week in Virology. Recorded March 30th 2021
Dr. Starla Thornhill has joined the lab.
Master’s student Ariel Robles has joined the lab.
Our latest preprint is out describing our use of next-generation sequencing to determine the presence of mutations associated with variants of concern in NYC wastewater.
We are part of a team that has been awarded a RAPID award from the National Science Foundation. The grant funds a project titled: Metapopulation Modeling to Develop Strategies to Reduce COVID-19 Transmission in Public Spaces to see what we are up to, head to covidcode.net
Dr. Smyth was named the Deputy Executive Director for the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement (NCSCE) and Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER).
Dr. Smyth published a book review
Smyth, D.S. Microbes: The Life-Changing Story of Germs. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 2022. 97(3) 219-220.
Dr. Smyth and colleagues published a paper on aerosol transmission
Skanata, A., Spagnolo, F., Metz, M., Smyth, D.S. and Dennehy, J.J. (2022). Humidity Reduces Rapid and Distant Airborne Dispersal of Viable Viral Particles in Classroom Settings. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2022, 9, 7, 632–637. I am a co-corresponding author. DOI: doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.2c00243
Dr. Smyth and colleagues published a paper on NYC’s second COVID-19 wave
Hoar, C., Chauvin, F., Katehis, D., Clare, A., McGibbon, H., Castro, E., Patinella, P., Dennehy, J.J., Trujillo, M., Smyth, D.S. and Silverman, A. (2022). Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater during New York City's second wave of COVID-19: Sewershed-level trends and relationships to publicly available clinical testing data. Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol. 8 1021-1035. DOI: doi.org/10.1039/D1EW00747E
Dr. Smyth and colleagues published with the CDC
Kirby, A.E., Welsh, R.M., Marsh, Z.A., Yu, A.T., Vugia, D.J., Boehm, A.B., Wolfe, M.K., White, B.J.., Matzinger, S.J., Wheeler, A., Bankers, L., Andresen, K., Salatas, C., NYC DEP, Gregory, D.A., Johnson, M.C., Trujillo, M., Kannoly, S., Smyth, D.S, Dennehy, J.J., Sapoval, N., Ensor, K., Treangen, T., Stadler, L.B., Hopkins, L. (2022) Early Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Community Wastewater. MMWR. 71(3);103–105 DOI: dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7103a5
Dr. Smyth and colleagues published in Nature Communications
Smyth, D.S., Trujillo, M., Gregory, D., Cheung, K, Gao,A., Graham, M., Guan, Y., Hoxie, I., Kannoly, S., Kubota, N., Markman, Rushford, C., M., Myat San, K., Sompanya, G., Spagnolo, F., Suarez, R., Teixeiro, E., Daniels, M., Johnson, M.C., and Dennehy, JJ. (2022). Tracking Cryptic SARS-CoV-2 Lineages Detected in NYC Wastewater. Nature Communications. 13(635). DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28246-3
2021
Dr. Smyth received a College of Arts and Science College Grant- Collaborative development of alternative animal-free models for infection and immunology research ($10000) – Co-PI
Dr. Smyth received a Research Council Award- Collaborative development of alternative animal-free models for infection and immunology research ($10000) – PI
The Smyth Lab has moved to Texas A&M San Antonio!
Dr. Smyth and colleagues published a protocol paper on isolating SARS-CoV-2 from wastewater
Trujillo, M., Cheung, K, Gao, A., Hoxie, I., Kannoly, S., Kubota, N., Myat San, K., Smyth, D.S. and Dennehy, JJ. (2021). Protocol for Safe, Affordable, and Reproducible Isolation and Quantitation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from Wastewater. PLOS ONE 16(9): e0257454.
2020
Dr. Smyth published a paper on sustainable science
Smyth, D.S. (2020). COVID-19, Ebola, Measles: Achieving sustainability in the era of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 62:6, 31-40. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2020.1820295
Dr. Smyth published a paper with colleagues
Perez, S., Seto, J., Smyth, D.S. and Parker, D. (2020). Biological sex influences susceptibility to Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia in mice. JCI Insight 5(7):e132223 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.132223
The Smyth Lab is going to ASM Microbe 2020! Molly, Wes, Annabelle and Dr. Smyth are all presenting.
Smyth Lab has a new paper out “The Sustainability Challenges Facing Research and Teaching Laboratories When Going Green”. Marcus Banks and Molly Metz are co-authors.
Dr. Smyth presented at the 11th Annual ePortfolio forum in Washington DC with Dr. Theresa Conefrey
Undergrad students Molly Metz, Wes Thomason, Simon Chen, Leah Hughes and high school student Kristoff Misquitta presented posters at MACUB at Monmouth University.
Simon Chen and Kristoff Misquitta won first place and Leah Hughes took home third place in the Microbiology & Immunology category at MACUB.
Annabelle Adams-Beyea and Wes Thomason received the Eugene Lang Opportunity Award to fund their research in the Spring semester.
Wes Thomason presented his work "Effects of Extreme Weather Patterns on the Soil Microbiome in New York City" at the ABRCMS conference in Anaheim, CA.
Dr. Smyth presented at the What Can You Be With a PhD event at NYU.
Undergrad student Ethyn Maki received the Kalil award to fund his research on Pseudomonas this Spring
Kristoff Misquitta, Rita Chen and Michaelangelo Pagan won outstanding poster at the Urban Barcode Research Program Symposium
Dr. Smyth is elected a PULSE Fellow
Dr. Smyth was chosen as a PALM Mentor to Carlos Goller
Dr. Smyth joined the editorial board of Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal
2019
Emma published her paper
Letcher, E.* and Smyth D.S. (2019) Hitchhikers in Honey: An investigation of the inhibitory mechanisms of bacteria found in honey. Journal of Student Research. 8(2):1-4. DOI: doi.org/10.47611/jsr.v8i2.795
It’s a new semester at the New School. This semester Dr. Smyth is teaching “Microbial Ecologies” and “How the Toilet Changed the World”. She’s teaching “Advanced Microbiology Research” for the first time and she’s a guest instructor for “Honeybee Colonies“.
Dr. Smyth is delighted to serve as a PALM mentor for Carlos Goller. We’re going to be working together to develop active learning activities for upper level bioinformatics courses.
Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences at the New School has concluded. See the blog for stories from the interns!
Dr. Smyth and Theresa presented a workshop on ePortfolios at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence Based Learning
Wes has applied for a student travel award to attend ABRCMS this year! Fingers and toes crossed
Marcus has been awarded a New School Travel Award for his project “Closing the Plastic Waste Stream in Science Laboratories”. I’m excited to be his mentor.
Emma has been awarded a Eugene Lang Opportunity Award to work with me on our new honey and bee project.
Dr. Smyth is back from giving three workshops at the SENCER Summer Institute. Many new friends made and new collaborations formed.
Dr. Smyth presented a poster on SENCER at the Gordon Research Conference for Undergraduate Education in Biology.
Natalie and Janelly presented their exciting projects at MICROBE 2019 in San Francisco.
Dr. Smyth participated in the Avida-Ed workshop in Austen, Texas. Excited to plan modules for my new course in Spring “Evolution, Mutation and Computation”
Team URBP wins outstanding poster at the Urban Barcode Research Project Symposium.
Marcus Banks has been accepted to present a poster at a conference in Latvia (I had to look it up on the map ;))
Team URBP had a great time collecting data on student’s perceptions about Cigarettes and JUUL pods during Earth week.
Three new students have joined the lab. Lauren, Sidney and Emma, Welcome!!
Natalie’s abstract has been chosen for a rapid fire talk at Microbe!!
Dr. Smyth is going to be on the radio with Randy Cohen and Person, Place, Thing. Get tickets here
We’ve received funding from the Eugene Lang Faculty Opportunity Award
Our new paper is online. Interdisciplinary collaborations can work when faculty are able to work together!
Smyth lab participated in the World Science Festival with Tiny Earth
Smyth lab has joined Tiny Earth
Dr. Smyth is headed off to the Gordon Research Conference for Undergraduate Biology Education
Janelly and Natalie have been accepted to Microbe 2019!!
Our blog article on lab sustainability is out
Smyth lab made a contribution to an article on Medium
Smyth Lab has been awarded a small grant from the Tishman Center of the New School
Smyth Lab has moved to the New School
Undergraduate researcher Janelly Eralte has been accepted to present at this year’s SACNAS. This will be her first conference!
Dr. Smyth had a great time presenting at this year’s SSI2018
Dr. Smyth had a lovely time at my first QUBES meeting
Dr Smyth had fun, learning about assessments at the regional PKAL meeting
2018
Undergraduate researcher Natalie Vegas has been accepted to present at this years’ Microbe. This is her second acceptance!
Dr. Smyth had a great time presenting at the New School
Our CURE paper is out in the SENCER journal
2017
Undergraduate researcher Natalie Vegas received a Capstone award to attend this years’ MICROBE
Undergraduate researcher Bien Porconi received an honorary mention for her poster presentation at this years CSTEP meeting
Undergraduate researcher Natalia Tumidajski has been awarded a SACNAS travel scholarship to attend the SACNAS meeting in October
Undergraduate researcher Natalia Tumidajski has been accepted to the SURP Program at Albert Einstein this Summer
Undergraduate researchers Natalia Tumidajski, Bien Porconi, Dominick Mancini and Natalie Vegas have been accepted to present at this years ABRCMS in Tampa, Fl. Natalie will be giving an oral presentation!
2016
Dr. Smyth has been invited to be a speaker at this years “What you can be with a PhD”. I’m chuffed
We presented a poster at this years’ Applied and Environmental Microbiology Gordon conference
Fabiola presented her work on using next-generation sequencing to assess water quality at the American Society for Microbiology Annual General Meeting in New Orleans
Minni was awarded a Capstone award to attend and present at the American Society for Microbiology Annual General Meeting in New Orleans
We presented a poster at Microbes in the City: Mapping the Urban Genome at the NYAS
We’ve been accepted to be a site for CUNY Service Corps and the READ project!
Seven students of the lab took place in the Emerging Scholars this semester. Rimsha Azhar took second place in the STEM category in the Emerging Scholars Poster competition for her work characterizing the staphylococci from the environment. Faizan Malik took first place in the non-STEM category for his work describing how to motivate students in microbiology. Congrats lads!
Dr Smyth gave a presentation - Assessing Reading: The READ Initiative. Oral presentation for “Closing the Loop on assessment of General Education” for the CUNY Assessment Council seminar
Dr. Smyth is now the program coordinator for Biomedical Informatics at NYCCT
Dr. Smyth is invited to join CCRP DOE project aimed at improving student reading skills
Dr. Smyth is invited Teaching Panel presentation at NYU Langone Medical Center
Grant submitted to NIH mid-blizzard – Fingers crossed for us all
Minni, Kenny, and Fabiola have submitted abstracts to the annual ASM meeting
Dr. Smyth is off to China
Our lab was featured on the college website
Article published on healthybuilding.net on antimicrobials in building products
Visited the NY Genome Center with the BIB club
Dr. Smyth gave a seminar at Queens College “Insights into the adaptability of the Staphylococci”
Dr. Smyth gave a seminar at New York Medical College “Lessons learned from Bacterial Networks: How to land and keep that academic job”
New Paper online “Cytotoxic virulence predicts mortality in nosocomial pneumonia due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus“
Undergraduate researcher Fabiola Fontaine has been accepted to the ABRCMS and she also received an award to attend!
Dr Smyth attended the Sencer Summer Institute – was absolutely brilliant
Presented at the UnderGround Zero event in the city