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RI-INBRE-COBRE Collaborative Research<\/strong> Dr. Susan Meschwitz, Associate Professor and Chairwoman of Chemistry at Salve Regina University received the first RI-INBRE\/COBRE Collaborative Supplemental Award in May 2019. The collaborative project entitled \u201cQuorum sensing antagonistic inhibition of medically important ESKAPE pathogens\u201d was with Dr. Helen (Beth) Fuchs. Dr. Fuchs is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Research Scientist at Rhode Island Hospital, a COBRE Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Therapeutic Discovery investigator (Reported in RI-INBRE\u2019s Winter 2021 eNewsletter).<\/p>\n After a \u201cwonderful, but quick year\u201d the two published \u201cA Substituted Diphenyl Amide Based Novel Scaffold Inhibits Staphylococcus aureus Virulence in a Galleria mellonella Infection Model,\u201d in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology (October 5, 2021, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fmicb.2021.723133). Although the COVID-19 pandemic impacted plans for Dr. Meschwitz\u2019s students to research in Dr. Fuch\u2019s lab (converted to a COVID-19 testing site in 2020), the two investigators are still in touch. \u201cThe beauty of collaborative grants is that they open doors\u2026 you can continue with future collaborations” remarked Meschwitz.<\/p>\n In May of 2021, Dr. Meschwitz received the RI-INBRE Women\u2019s Health Supplemental Award, conducted at Salve Regina University in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island investigators Dr. Jodi Camberg and Dr. David Rowley. This is an exciting award for Dr. Meschwitz since it is a result of her 2019 collaborative grant with Dr. Fuchs, and Dr. Rowley was her RI-INBRE Early Career Development mentor who played a major role in mentoring her and supporting her research efforts. Dr. Meschwitz stressed that RI-INBRE\u2019s funding and collaborations have helped get her \u201cback into the research realm.\u201d Before teaching and researching at Salve Regina, Dr. Meschwitz worked in industry.<\/p>\n Dr. Meschwitz\u2019s two collaborative research awards with Dr. Rowley and Dr. Fuchs confirm that \u201cyou cannot do research in a vacuum\u2026most projects are multifaceted and if you can have those connections and collaborations, it will open avenues\u2026 to further your research.\u201d Rhode Island is a small state however RI-INBRE provides investigators opportunities to take advantage of our size and closeness. Susan mentioned that RI-INBRE events, meetings, and SURF conferences \u201cprovide excellent opportunities to see colleagues and meet other researchers throughout the state and the RI-INBRE network.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Meschwitz is \u201clooking forward to the in-person experience\u201d after the challenges brought on by the pandemic and said, \u201cYou can\u2019t replace hands-on training and in-person research experiences.\u201d Salve Regina University, a predominantly undergraduate institution (PUI), provides lab and research opportunities to their undergraduate students, Meschwitz said \u201cexposure to more complicated techniques and higher end equipment\u201d will provide her students with \u201chands-on training at a higher level than courses or undergraduate research at a PUI alone.\u201d Dr. Meschwitz\u2019s Women\u2019s Health Supplemental Award also provides her students the opportunity to \u201cvisit URI [and] physically be in a graduate program setting\u2026learn from and work alongside graduate students and postdocs\u2026attend group meetings with the two labs\u201d and more. In-person, collaborative research experience can \u201creally spark interest in pursuing their degree [and research] Dr. Meschwitz shared.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RI-INBRE-COBRE Collaborative Research Dr. Susan Meschwitz received the first RI-INBRE\/COBRE Collaboration Supplemental Award in 2019 with Dr. Helen (Beth) Fuchs of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital. In 2021, Dr. Meschwitz also received the RI-INBRE Women\u2019s Health Supplemental Award, in collaboration with URI investigators Dr. Jodi Camberg and Dr. David Rowley. 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\nDr. Susan Meschwitz received the first RI-INBRE\/COBRE Collaboration Supplemental Award in 2019 with Dr. Helen (Beth) Fuchs of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital. In 2021, Dr. Meschwitz also received the RI-INBRE Women\u2019s Health Supplemental Award, in collaboration with URI investigators Dr. Jodi Camberg and Dr. David Rowley. <\/p>\n