{"id":4199,"date":"2025-11-20T17:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:16:21","slug":"biochemistry-student-spotlight-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2025\/biochemistry-student-spotlight-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Biochemistry Student Spotlight &#8211; Irbaz Rehman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Biochemistry Student Spotlight\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/11\/Student-spotlight_Irbaz-2-1-1024x349.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/11\/Student-spotlight_Irbaz-2-1-1024x349.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/11\/Student-spotlight_Irbaz-2-1-512x175.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/11\/Student-spotlight_Irbaz-2-1-320x109.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/11\/Student-spotlight_Irbaz-2-1-768x262.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/11\/Student-spotlight_Irbaz-2-1-1536x524.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/11\/Student-spotlight_Irbaz-2-1-2048x699.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"xxxxmsonormal\"><strong>Publication alert:<\/strong> A cranberry endophyte reduces plant pathogen growth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"xxmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\">&nbsp;<\/span>Irbaz Rehman (B.Sc. Biochemistry\/2023) has published research on a new fungal endophyte from cranberry. This work was part of a larger project in the group of Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/people\/david-mcmullin\/\">David McMullin<\/a> (Institute of Biochemistry). The work indicates that the fungal endophyte produces natural products able to inhibit the growth of pathogens of cranberry and related plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the research here (<a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fpii%2FS1874390025010638&amp;data=05%7C02%7CTylerAvis%40Cunet.Carleton.Ca%7Cda097ddd95cb4243239b08dd9489868b%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638830040945275028%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=WhL4O2oy6oi3noulc98iJgv9cTwzpr5oGiNZpcghcqA%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1874390025010638<\/a>). For more information on Prof. McMullin\u2019s research, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mcmullinlab\/\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mcmullinlab\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publication alert: A cranberry endophyte reduces plant pathogen growth &nbsp;Irbaz Rehman (B.Sc. Biochemistry\/2023) has published research on a new fungal endophyte from cranberry. This work was part of a larger project in the group of Prof. David McMullin (Institute of Biochemistry). The work indicates that the fungal endophyte produces natural products able to inhibit the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":4204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"environmental"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}