{"id":368,"date":"2026-03-23T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/shen\/?p=368"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:22:25","slug":"congratulations-anastasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/shen\/2026\/03\/23\/congratulations-anastasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Anastasia!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to Anastasia Chepel on receiving the Novice Researcher Award in the Molecular, Cellular, and Chemical Biology category at <a href=\"https:\/\/surca.wsu.edu\/awards\/\">SURCA 2026<\/a> for her poster presentation, \u201cMapping the Global Human Microbiome: A Reproducible Analysis of Public Shotgun Metagenomic Data with a Focus on Crohn\u2019s Disease.\u201d This award honors students at any academic level who are new to the research process\u2014typically those with two semesters or less of experience in their research area\u2014and whose presentations receive excellent scores from the judges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" data-id=\"375\"  src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3566\/2026\/04\/IMG_0053-scaled-e1775531122261-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"Anastasia Chepel in white shirt standing in front of her poster at SURCA 2026\" class=\"wp-image-375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3566\/2026\/04\/IMG_0053-scaled-e1775531122261-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3566\/2026\/04\/IMG_0053-scaled-e1775531122261-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3566\/2026\/04\/IMG_0053-scaled-e1775531122261-768x508.jpg 768w, 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