Valeria Velásquez-Zapata received a $1500 competitive travel award to attend the IS-MPMI Congress in Glasgow, Scotland July 14-18. Awardees participated in a public communication and outreach workshop to enable them to develop skills to communicate their research to a broader audience, which will impact public understanding of MPMI research.
Recently CB had the annual Faculty meeting and the eight new affiliated faculty with BCB were invited to give seminars about their research. This link provides all eight of their seminars.
Valeria is an international student from Colombia. She completed two B.Sc, degrees, including biological engineering at the National University of Colombia and biology at the University of Antioquia in Colombia. After completing her two bachelor degrees, she was awarded the Santander scholarship to a master’s degree in biomedical research at the University of Valladolid in Spain. After that, she got a Fulbright scholarship for her Ph. D. at the Iowa State University where she is currently finishing her third year in the Interdepartmental Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program. Valeria is housed in the Plant Pathology and Microbiology Department where she is working under the mentorship of Dr. Roger Wise. Her research focuses on the characterization of master immune-active protein modules of barley-powdery mildew pathosystem.