Lab News 2018-2025

LAB NEWS 2018-2025

January 2025

Good News! Dr. Carabetta was awarded an NJ Health Foundation Grant to develop novel sirtuin inhibitors! Maxwell will continue his work on this project!

March 2025

Ben matched to Cooper University Healthcare in Vascular Surgery and Justin matched to Montefiore Medical Center/Einstein in Internal Medicine! From SOM, Rebecca matched in Pathology at Cornell Medicine, Kamayel matched in Anesthesiology at Jersey Shore University Medical Center and Lama matched in Internal Medicine at Jefferson Health New Jersey. Congrats to all!

January 2025

Congratulations to Ola and Liya on publications of their book chapters in Springer Methods and Protocols, "High Throughput Gene Screening."

January 2025

The lab family gets larger! Welcome Daniel (CMSRU M1), Serena (CMSRU M1), Zahra (Rowan SOM M1), Aashna (Rowan SOM M1) and Zainab (Rowan SOM M1).

November 8, 2024

The lab attends the Fall TSS symposium, with presentations from Tope, Precious, and Liya. Precious' abstract was selected for an oral presentation! Great job by all!

November 13-16, 2024

Maxwell and Briana attend the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Students (ABRCMS). Both presented a poster and represented the lab well!

September 2024

Archna (Rowan SOM M1) joins the lab! Welcome!

October 2024

Jennifer (Rowan SOM M3) and Priyal (Rowan SOM M1) join the team! A warm welcome to you both!

July 26, 2024

Jordan presents her summer project at the RISER symposium! Excellent job.

September 2024

Congratulations Mohamed, Precious, and Tope for publication of their review article entitled "Conjugated therapeutic proteins as a treatment for bacteria which can trigger cancer development" in iScience.

June 2024

Congratulations Justin, Rachel, Rebecca, Keertana, Maftuna, Muskan, and Ian for their publication "Combinations of antibiotics effective against extensively- and pandrug- resistant A. baumannii patient isolates," in Microorganisms!

June 2024

Jordan Luetke (Morristown HS) joins us for the summer as part of the RISER program. Welcome!

June 2024

Welcome to the team Jason (rising SOM M1 student)!

June 2024

Congratulations to Muskan, Michael, Dennise, and Gilbert for their publication entitled, "Antimicrobial Peptide Screening for Designing Custom Bactericidal Hydrogels," published in Pharmaceutics!

May 9, 2024

Congratulations Dr. Mohamed, Dr. Libraro, Dr. Schreiber, Dr. Giovinco, Dr. Curry, Dr. Mott, and Dr. Fleischer on earning your MD! Proud of all of you!

May 2024

Congratulations to Rachel, Trich, Precious, Lama, Kamayel, Briana, Damian, Anish, and April for their publication "Nε-lysine acetylation of the histone-like protein HBsu influences antibiotic survival and persistence in B. subtilis" in Frontiers in Microbiology.

May 3, 2024

Maxwell and Elena present posters at the 2024 spring TSS meeting. Maxwell was selected for a talk too! Excellent job!

May 6, 2024

Olivia is awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Biomedical Sciences award for research at the class of '24 Awards Ceremony! Congrats and well deserved!

March 23, 2024

Elena presents a poster on her phage work at the New England Science Symposium in Boston!

April 23, 2024

Briana presents a poster at the CSM research day, after recovering from surgery. Impressive effort indeed!

March 2024

Congratulations to Carabetta lab members for matching!

Aleem-Gen. Surgery, Virginia Tech Carilion Clinic, Olivia-IM Beth Israel Deaconess, Michael-Orthopedic surgery, Cooper University Hospital, Holly-OB/GYN, Morristown Medical Center, Gilbert-IM at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Connor-Psychiatrics at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center.

March 2023

Jeanette (Rowan SOM M1) joins the Carabetta lab! Welcome :)

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February 2024

Welcome to the team Tope (Master's student) and Katie (CMSRU M2)!

March 2024

Congratulations to Liya and Rachel for their publication of their review entitled: "Recent contributions of proteomics to our understanding of reversible N-lysine acetylation in bacteria" in the Journal of Proteome Research!

January 2024

Exciting news! Maxwell was accepted into the Pharmaceutical Sciences PhD program at Rowan! He will continue in the lab. Congratulations!

ALUMNI UPDATE!

Melanie completed her critical care fellowship and will now complete an ID fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering!

December 2023

Congratulations Mohamed, Maxwell and Briana for publication of their review article on Therapeutic proteins as new antimicrobials in the journal "Frontiers in Bacteriology."

December 2023

Rachel left the lab to prepare for medical school and be with family. You will be missed and good luck in the future!

November 2023

Welcome to the lab Andrew (CMSRU, M1)

December 2023

Congratulations Nick on matching to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Anesthesiology. His first choice!

November 2023

Great News! Hritisha accepted a position at Profound Medical, San Francisco, CA! Congratulations and wishing you the best!

November 2023

Trich accepted a position as a research scientist at Hikma Pharmaceuticals! Good luck and you will be missed!

October 25, 2023

Liya and Maxwell present posters at the annual Rowan-Virtua STBES retreat held at the Mansion on Main Street in Voorhees. Great job as always!

October 27, 2023

Liya and Maxwell present posters at the fall TSS meeting. Liya was selected to give a talk!

September 2023

Welcome to the lab and the United States Precious (Master's student, University for Development Studies alumna)!

October 2023

Welcome to the team Rahul (CMSRU M1)!

August 2023

Jessica (CMSRU M1) joins the Carabetta lab!

September 23, 2024

Briana gives a talk and presents a poster at the annual U-RISE symposium.

July 26, 2023

Briana presents a poster at the CMS summer undergraduate research symposium! Excellent job!

July 28, 2023

Anish and Nishant present their summer project at the RISER symposium! Great job!

June 2023

Anish Korrapati (Monroe Township HS) and Nishant Bhatt (Eastern Regional HS) join us for the summer as part of the Rowan Riser program!

June 19, 2023

Welcome to the world Sophia! Born at 10:41 AM, 5 lbs, 12 oz and 19 inches. Congratulation to Liya and Alex!

April 2023

Congratulations to Maxwell, Dennise, and Gilbert for publication of their review article titled "Recent Advances in Antimicrobial Peptide Hydrogels," published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences!

May 2023

Muskan (Rowan SOM M1) and Reid (CMSRU M1) joins the team!

April 2023

Maftuna (Rowan SOM M1) joins the Carabetta lab! Welcome!

April 2023

Mohamed (University of Nottingham alumni) joins our lab, coming from the University of Colorado. Welcome!

February 2023

Welcome to the Carabetta lab Ian (CMSRU M1)!

March 2023

MATCH DAY! Congratulations to Dennise for matching in Pediatrics at Wright Patterson Airforce Base (Dayton, OH) and Damian for matching in Internal Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, NC)!

January 2023

Nishi (Rowan Undergrad), April (CMSRU M1) and Keertana (Rowan SOM M1) join the team! Welcome!

February 2023

Ola has accepted a research scientist position at BiomEdit! Congrats and we wish you the best of luck!

November 17, 2022

A surprise party for Rachel and David before their wedding! Congratulations again from the entire Carabetta lab!

November 30, 2022

Rachel, Ola and Liya present posters at the fall meeting of the Theobald Smith Society. Rachel's abstract was selected for lightning talk. Job well done, as usual!

September 2022

Congratulations to Manas, Rachel, Rebecca, and Sean for their manuscript entitled: "Evaluating the Efficacy of Eravacycline and Omadacycline against Extensively Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
Patient Isolates" being published in the journal Antibiotics!

October 25, 2022

The Carabetta lab represents at the Rowan GSBS Annual Fall Research Retreat held at The Mansion in Voorhees, NJ. Ola and Liya presented posters. Great job to all!

August 2022

Congratulations to Rachel and David on their engagement!

September 2022

Welcome to the lab and United States Maxwell (Master's student, Graduate of University for Development Studies alumni).

July 29, 2022

Vidhi Presents her summer project at the RISER Symposium!

August 2nd, 2022

Welcome to the world Elena Jaludi! Born at 8:21 am, 7.8 pounds, and 19 3/4 inches. Congratulations Kamayel!

May 2022

Lauren (Northeastern University) joins us for the summer!

June 2022

Welcome Vidhi (RISER scholar, Cherokee High School) to the lab for the summer!

June 9-13, 2022, Washington DC

The Carabetta lab takes ASM Microbe 2022 by storm!

June 10th, 2022

Connor, Holly and Olivia present a poster at ASM Microbe.

May 2022

Hritisha graduated from Temple University with a degree in Biology (minor in Art History)! Congratulations!

May 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Deolankar and Dr. Roh on earning your M.D.!

May 2022

Melanie, Michael, Holly, and Jackson published a manuscript entitled "Evaluating the effectiveness of hospital antiseptics on multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: Understanding the relationship between microbicide and antibiotic resistance" in Antibiotics.

Congrats team!

May 2022

Trich graduated from Rowan University with a degree in Biology. Congratulations!

March 2022

MATCH DAY! Manas has matched in Emergency medicine at Rush University Medical Center. Sean Matched in Family medicine at Kaiser Permanete Fontana Medical Center. Both got their top choices! Congrats!

March 2022

Lama and Kamayel (Rowan SOM M1s) join the lab!

February 2022

Rebecca (Rowan SOM M1) joins the team!

January 2022

Jackson, Holly, Olivia, Connor, and Melanie published a manuscript entitled "Nε-lysine acetylation of the histone-like protein HBsu regulates the process of sporulation and affects the resistance properties of Bacillus subtilis spores" in Frontiers in Microbiology. Congratulations all!

December 2021

CONGRATULATIONS! Melanie matched to Montefiore Medical Center (NY), as a critical care fellow, her top choice!

January 2022

Welcome to lab Rachel (Rutgers alumna), Liya (Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry alumna) and Justin (CMSRU M1)!

November 2021

Jackson has accepted a full-time position at CUH and will be leaving the lab! We wish Jackson the best of luck!

December 2021

Elena and Ben (CMSRU M1s) join the team!

August 2021

Jackson's review article entitled "Contribution of Nε-lysine acetylation towards regulation of bacterial pathogenesis" is now published in mSystems! Congratulations!

October 2021

Welcome to the lab Trich (Rowan undergraduate), Tabitha (CMSRU post-bacc) and Shafi (Rowan SOM M2)!

June 20-24, 2021

Melanie presents a virtual poster entitled "Evaluating the effectiveness of common hospital disinfectants on multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii" at the 2021 World Microbe Forum.

July 2021