3B Lab Work Highlighted at MARM Meeting

This past week, several members of the 3B Lab presented their work at the American Chemical Society Mid Atlantic Region Meeting, which was hosted at Seton Hall University.

Margret Pagare presented her work on light-active peptides and expanding the toolbox to FZ and YZ peptides as shown in her poster: “Studies of combinations of azobenzene and aromatic amino acid conjugates”

Siya Patel described the 3B Lab’s ongoing interest in peptide formulations with a poster titled: “Development of lipid nanoparticle formulations of antifungal peptides”

Akilah Mateen showed off potential peptide drug modifications in “Evaluation of antifungal potential of Cu2+ - ATCUN lipopeptides with inhibitory and membrane studies”.

Belmin Kolenovic spoke about some of the challenges with peptide drug delivery in a poster titled, “Peptide modification for reduced rate of degradation and increased solubility”

Finally, Dr. Wiedman gave a talk titled, “The development and uses of primary sequence azobenzene-containing peptides”.

All talks and posters were well received in the Biochemistry sessions.

3B Lab Members Present at 2025 Petersheim Expo

Three of the 3B Lab Members, undergraduate students Siya Patel and Jerrine George as well as graduate student Margret Pagare presented at the 2025 Petersheim Expo. Congrats to Siya, Jerrine, and Margret on their wonderful poster presentations!

3B Lab Members Present at Fall Research Symposium 2023

The 3B Lab was proud to have work presented by three of its undergraduate members, Zena Kara, Yogarupa Das, and Dylan Schwartz, at the 2023 Fall Research Symposium.

Zena presented exciting ongoing work in the 3B lab related to azobenzene molecules such as those published by 3B lab members Dr. Cristina Ventura and Charnette Frederic.

Roja showed updates on the lab’s fungi-targeting peptides.

Dylan exhibited new research on Affibody conjugates being done in collaboration with the Romanian Academy.

Continue to follow updates on these projects on our “Current Projects” page!

Seton Hall University, 3B Lab Hosts North Jersey Fall 2023 ASM Meeting

The Fall 2023 meeting of the Theobald Smith Society, Northern New Jersey section of the American Society for Microbiology, was held October 27th at Seton Hall University. The nearly 50 attendees included students and faculty form Seton Hall, Rutgers University, Rowan University, and New Jersey City University as well as from Industry.

Event attendees were pleased to hear talks by keynote speakers Dr. Jennifer Leeds, Director at Novartis on the prospects for commercial development of antimicrobials and young investigator awardee Dr. Dana Price on the prevalence of pathogens in mosquitoes and ticks throughout New Jersey.

These talks were proceeded by lightning talks about student research and postdocs as well as a poster session.  If you are interested in joining Theobald Smith Society for future events, please check out: NJ Microbe

Dr. Wiedman, 3B Lab Honored by University with Faculty Researcher of the Year Award

On Many 10th, 2023, Dr. Wiedman was honored to receive the Faculty Researcher of the Year Award in the Sciences on behalf of the 3B Lab. The award was given for, among other accomplishments, grants that the lab received from the NIH and NSF as part of Dr. Wiedman’s research and scholarship. This is an incredible achievement and a testament to the hard work of all the members of the 3B Lab.

Please consider reading some of the exciting research work that the 3B lab does on other areas of the website!

3B Lab Presents at 2023 Petersheim Symposium

Members of the 3B Lab presented their work at the Annual Petersheim Academic Expo.

Akilah Mateen and Cristina Ventura presented posters while Charnette Frederic gave the keynote lecture: “Innovative fluorescence-based techniques for the identification of small biomolecules”.

Fall Research Symposium Features 3B Lab Members

In December 2022, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Seton Hall University hosted a Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium. Makayla Manfredi presented her research on novel Redox Active antimicrobial peptides while Zena Karam, Reesha Hora, and Ishan Sharma presented their work on biophysical/biochemical studies of flippase enzymes.

The Keynote Speaker was 3B Lab member Cristina Ventura who delivered her PhD Seminar: “Photoisomerizable Membrane Active Peptides”. Cristina’s work had been previously honored with a Travel Award at the Petersheim Academic Expo and she becomes the first Keynote Speaker for the Fall Symposium.

Congratulations to Cristina and all of the 3B Lab Students for their hard work!