{"id":8198,"date":"2021-10-06T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/?p=8198"},"modified":"2023-06-23T12:21:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T16:21:05","slug":"mees-doctoral-student-defends-dissertation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-news-releases\/mees-doctoral-student-defends-dissertation\/","title":{"rendered":"MEES doctoral student defends dissertation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/uploadedImages\/_WEBSITES\/SANS\/Content\/SANS_Monthly_Digest-09_2020\/Detbra_Rosales.5.PNG\" alt=\"Detbra Rosales 1\" title=\"Detbra Rosales 1\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Detbra Rosales<\/strong>, a doctoral student in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/Grad\/Pages\/Marine-Estuarine-Environmental-Sciences-(MEES)\/\">Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences program<\/a>&nbsp;at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, successfully defended her dissertation September 25 during a virtual presentation.&nbsp; The title was, \u201cAssessing the Microbial, Phytoplankton Community and Associated Water Quality in the Delaware and Maryland Coastal Bays.\u201d&nbsp; Rosales\u2019 research focus is on ecology.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy dissertation added new knowledge on the interaction between harmful algal species and pathogenic&nbsp;<em>Vibrios<\/em>,\u201d Rosales said.&nbsp; \u201cThese two microbes are found in the same environment and can impact one another.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Areas in the Rehoboth Bay with elevated nutrient levels had a higher abundance of these pathogenic&nbsp;<em>Vibrios<\/em>&nbsp;and harmful algal species in comparison to areas that had lower nutrient levels, she said.&nbsp; Abundance of these harmful algal species and pathogenic&nbsp;<em>Vibrios&nbsp;<\/em>can be a concern for human and ecological health.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/uploadedImages\/_WEBSITES\/SANS\/Content\/SANS_Monthly_Digest-09_2020\/Detbra%20Rosales-dissertation%201.2.jpg\" alt=\"Detbra Rosales dissertation\" title=\"Detbra Rosales dissertation\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlthough&nbsp;<em>Vibrio<\/em>&nbsp;spp. have been studied extensively worldwide, Detbra\u2019s work is one of only two publications that have suggested a link of specifically pathogenic strains to the abundance of phytoplankton. This hints that virulence factors involved in human disease probably originate from a use in environmental settings as competition factors against co-occurring microbes and protists,\u201d said Dr. Joseph Pitula, a professor in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/Sciences\/\">Department of Natural Sciences<\/a>&nbsp;and Rosales\u2019 academic advisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rosales holds a master\u2019s in biology from CUNY Brooklyn College and a bachelor\u2019s in environmental science from SUNY Binghamton University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detbra Rosales, a doctoral student in the&nbsp;Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences program&nbsp;at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, successfully defended her dissertation September 25 during a virtual presentation.&nbsp; The title was, \u201cAssessing the Microbial, Phytoplankton Community and Associated Water Quality in the Delaware and Maryland Coastal Bays.\u201d&nbsp; Rosales\u2019 research focus is on ecology.&nbsp; \u201cMy dissertation added new knowledge&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-news-releases\/mees-doctoral-student-defends-dissertation\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">MEES doctoral student defends dissertation<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-8198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sans-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8198"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=8198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}