{"id":3793,"date":"2023-02-13T12:12:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T16:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/?page_id=3793"},"modified":"2025-12-10T16:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:24:07","slug":"jasmine-smalls","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/jasmine-smalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasmine Smalls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NOAA-EPP LMRCSC Doctoral Fellow<\/strong> 
Ph.D., Food Microbiology<\/em>, Graduated December 2023
University of Maryland Eastern Shore<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jasmine Smalls earned her B.S. in Marine Science from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 2014. She earned her M.S. in Life Sciences from Delaware State University in 2019. Jasmine returned to UMES to pursue her Ph.D. in the Environmental\/Food Microbiology Safety Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Salina Parveen. She successfully defended her thesis, titled, “Abundance, Antibiotic Resistance, Genetic Diversity of Vibrio spp. and Diversity of Microbial Communities in Blue Crabs and Seawater from the Maryland Coastal Bays.” Pathogenic Vibrios are a threat to humans who consume raw or improperly cooked seafood (e.g., oysters and crabs). Jasmine aspires to become an interdisciplinary environmental\/seafood safety scientist and plans to work at seafood safety labs for a federal agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Theme:<\/a><\/strong> Safe Seafood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOAA LMRCSC Fellows attain the NOAA Core Competencies detailed in this rubric<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NERTO Project Title: <\/strong>Prevalence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus<\/em> and Vibrio vulnificus<\/em> in Blue Crabs (Callinectes sapidus<\/em>) and Seawater Harvested from the Maryland Coastal Bays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOAA Mentor: <\/strong>Dr. John Jacobs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academic Advisor: <\/strong>Dr. Salina Parveen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Publications\/Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Smalls, J<\/strong>., 2019. Prevalence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus of Blue Crabs and Seawater from the Maryland Coastal Bays. NSF CREST Update Meeting, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, Maryland October 21, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Smalls, J<\/strong>., amd Parveen, S. 2021. Vibiro parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus profiles and Microbial Community Assessments of Blue Crabs (Callinectes sapidus) and Seawater Harvested from the Maryland Coastal Bays. IAFP annual meeting, July 31 – August 3, 2022. Pittsburgh, PA. Poster Presentation. Student Travel Award recipient.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Smalls, J<\/strong>., and Parveen, S. 2021. Microbial Community Assessments of Blue Crabs (Callinectes sapidus) and Seawater Harvested from the Maryland Coastal Bays. ARD annual meeting, April 2-5, 2022. Atlanta, GA. Poster presentation. Second place award recipient.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Smalls, J.<\/strong>, Parveen, S., Jacobs, J., Townsend, H. and Chigbu, P. (2024). Evaluation of the Relationships between Physico-Chemical Factors and the Abundance of Vibrio<\/em> spp. in Blue Crabs (Callinectes sapidus<\/em>) and Seawater from the Maryland Coastal Bays. Frontiers in Microbiology<\/em>, 15 October 2024; Sec. Food Microbiology, Volume 15 – 2024 | https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fmicb.2024.1459077<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center
    University of Maryland Eastern Shore (Lead Institution)
    (410) 651-7870
    Award numbers: FY 2021 Award #NA21SEC4810005
    Funding Agency:\u00a0    NOAA Educational Partnership Program (EPP\/MSI)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    NOAA-EPP LMRCSC Doctoral Fellow Ph.D., Food Microbiology, Graduated December 2023University of Maryland Eastern Shore Jasmine Smalls earned her B.S. in Marine Science from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 2014. She earned her M.S. in Life Sciences from Delaware State University in 2019. Jasmine returned to UMES to pursue her Ph.D. in the Environmental\/Food Microbiology…Read more Jasmine Smalls<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-3793","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}