LAB NEWS 2025-
May 2025
January 2026
Welcome to the team Pritkumar (Rowan University, master's student)! He will be collaborating with Dr. Jagadish Torlapati (Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan) to work on a bioremediation project.
February 2026
Good news! Dr. Carabetta received 2 New Jersey Health Foundation grants! One to develop novel antimicrobial urinary catheters with Dr. Vega's team, and the other to explore bacteriophage therapy to combat A. baumannii.
December 6-10, 2024
Maxwell presented a poster at the American Society for Cellular Biology meeting in Philadelphia! Excellent job!
December 21, 2025
Welcome to the world Christopher Alexander! Congratulations to Liya, Alex, and big sister Sophia! Another future microbiologist.
November 2025
Congratulations to Justin and Jeanette for their publication in JAC Antimicrobial Resistance titled "Evaluation of sulbactam/durlobactam activity and synergy against highly drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains"
November 2025
Maxwell, in collaboration with the Caputo and Hettinger labs published a manuscript titled "Silver (I) and Silver (II) Oxide Films for Biomedical Implants: Synthesis, Stability, Ion Release, and Antibacterial Efficacy" in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Congrats!
November 2025
Congratulations to Maxwell for publication of his comprehensive review in Pharmaceuticals titled "Sirtuins as Therapeutic Targets for Treating Cancer, Metabolic Diseases, and Neurodegenerative Diseases"
November 2025
Congratulations to Mohamed and Alicia, on their publication in the journal Pharmaceutics titled "Structural and Functional Insights into Viral and Fungal Proteins Involved in Chronic Inflammation and Their Biologic Treatments"
October 2025
Congratulations to Liya, Hritisha, and Olivia, on their publication in Frontiers in Microbiology titled "Acetylation of the histone-like protein HBsu at specific sites alters gene expression during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis."
November 13, 2025
CMSRU hosts the Theobald Smith Society Fall symposium for the first time! Archna presented a poster and represented us well!
October 2025
Welcome to the Carabetta lab Hajara (Rowan SOM, M1)!
October 2025
Maxwell presented a poster at the NDiSTEM conference in Columbus Ohio! Great job!
August 1, 2025
Will gave a talk and presented a poster at the RISER symposium. Great job this summer and good luck with your final year of high school!
August 2025
Taniya (Rowan SOM, M2) joins the team!
July 2025
Alicia (Ross University Medical School M4) and Kartik (Rowan SOM M1) join the lab! Welcome!
August 2025
Congratulations to Justin, Andrew, Jeanette, Tope, Jessica, Katie, Keertana, and Jason for their publication "Synergistic cefiderocol-containing antibiotic combinations active against highly drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii patient isolates with diverse resistance mechanisms" Published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy!
June 2025
Welcome to the team Krisha (Rowan SOM M2)!
June 27, 2025
Maxwell was selected to give an oral presentation at the 2025 NY BIG symposium! Excellent job as usual.
Great News! Precious was accepted into the Molecular and Cell Biology PhD program at the Rowan University School of Translational Biomedical Engineering and Sciences. Congratulations!
Will Bruno (Clearview Regional Highschool) will join us for 6 weeks as part of the 2025 cohort of the RISER program! Welcome to the team!
Congratulations Dr. Halim and Dr. Feng on earning your MD! So proud of you both!
Jonah Luetke (rising senior at Amherst College) will join us for the summer! Welcome!
May 8, 2025
Maxwell and Katie present posters at the fall meeting of the Theobald Smith Society! Dr. Carabetta was a keynote speaker as well. As always we are well represented!
May 9-12 2025
It's Graduation season! Congratulations to Briana for earning her Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences and Precious and Tope for earning their Master's degrees in Pharmaceutical Sciences! We're all proud of you!
April 2025
Congratulations Mohamed, Tope, Precious, and Briana for publication of their review article entitled "Biosimilars Targeting Pathogens: A Comprehensive Review of Their Role in Bacterial, Fungal, Parasitic, and Viral Infections" in Pharmaceutics!
April 28, 2025
Briana received an Award of Distinction for research excellence from the Biological and Biomedical Sciences department. Well deserved and congratulations!