{"id":10089,"date":"2022-01-10T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/?p=10089"},"modified":"2022-01-07T14:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T20:34:25","slug":"biology-student-and-research-mentor-recognized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/2022\/01\/10\/biology-student-and-research-mentor-recognized\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology student and research mentor recognized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Undergraduate student Alyka Zahnd and her research mentor, Dr. Csengele Barta, associate professor in the department of biology, have been recognized and recently featured in the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Newsletter, reaching an international audience. Zahnd and Dr. Barta\u2019s research proposal, \u201cOffense and Defense strategies in plants\u2019 chemical warfare for resources and survival: Can native \u2018heroes\u2019 rescue other native plant species, sensitive to allelopathic inhibition, triggered by highly competitive invasive species\u201d has been selected as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship winner, providing Zahnd and Dr. Barta laboratory funding to perform the project. Alyka and Dr. Barta have also been featured at the 2021 Plant Biology international meeting and they will be presenting the results of the project at the 2022 Plant Biology meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undergraduate student Alyka Zahnd and her research mentor, Dr. Csengele Barta, associate professor in the department of biology, have been recognized and recently featured in the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Newsletter, reaching an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":9981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10090,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions\/10090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}