Loa presented his research entitled 鈥淒imensions and Components of Independent Living among community-dwelling Filipino older adults.鈥� The study explored the perspectives of independent living of urban and rural community-dwelling Filipino seniors. The study was co-authored by Prof. Pranom Othaganont, EdD, RN of Thammasat University, Thailand and Asst. Prof. Gabriel Culbert, PhD, RN of University of Illinois, Chicago, USA.

Medina, BS Nursing Class 2023, received the Junior Researcher Award for his oral presentation of the study entitled 鈥淒evelopment and Pilot Testing of a web-based oncologic nursing learning guide and the self-reported competence of nursing students.鈥� The study was co-authored by Noel Mario, Zysha Isabel Marquez, Angela Marie Martinez, Ivan Luis Martinez, Katrina Denise M. Martinez, Anthony Masigan Jr., and Assoc. Prof. Mila Delia M. Llanes, PhD, RN.

Moreover, four (4) groups of alumni presented their studies during the oral and poster sessions:

1. Carmelo Nacorda, Alessandra Therese Nanasca, Ma. Bianca Ysabelle Morales, Donna Loraine Naynes, Joyce Johanne Ng presented the study entitled 鈥淧arenting Strategies and the Psychosocial Development of Preschoolers in the time of COVID-19 Pandemic鈥� in the oral presentation session. The study was co-authored by Elaine Morales Kirk Laney Nicolas, Ramone Grace Noguera, and Asst. Prof. Beryl Battad, MAN, RN.
2. Hillary Joyce Lopez, Andrea Lopez, Janine Beverly Jurado, Margaux Gwyneth Lina, and Diane Ricci Lavadia presented the study entitled 鈥淪ocial Determinants of Health Risk Scores on the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices on Antibiotic Use and Resistance in a community in the Philippines鈥� in the poster presentation session. The study was co-authored by Kyle Giuseppe Hernandez, Armeen Grace Inductivo, and Assoc. Prof. Gian Carlo Torres, PhD, RN.
3. Lord Cedrick Sagum, Kyla Danille Frias, and Rhea Marie Salaya presented the study entitled 鈥淭he Role of Sexual Orientation on the Ethical Sensitivity of Third Year and Fourth Year Nursing students in Metro Manila鈥� in the poster presentation session. The study was co-authored by Francine Roxas, Michael Santander, Yana Virlin Sanz, Kairo Sollan XV and Asst. Prof.聽 JN Junnile Paat, PhD, RN.
4. Margaux Gwyneth Lina and Diane Ricci Lavadia presented the study entitled 鈥淐OVID 19 knowledge, attitude, practices and health literacy鈥檚 influence on pandemic fatigue among Filipino community dwellers: A correlational study鈥� in the oral presentation session. The study was co-authored by Aleck Hans Ison, Ma. Alyssa Falguerra, Princess Ayesha Ampatuan, Janella Mae Pelayo, Asst. Prof. Ma. Carina Rebueno, PhD, RN, Asst. Prof. Jayson Punzal, DNSc, RN, and Assoc. Prof. Gian Carlo Torres, PhD, RN.

The international conference was organized by the Faculty of Nursing, Thammasat University in Thailand and co-hosted by UST College of Nursing and 20 other partner higher education institutions and healthcare facilities in Asia, United States, and Africa. The international conference was participated in by 400 students, academicians, and healthcare professionals from different countries.

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Macabeo鈥檚 project, entitled 鈥淒rug discovery of biologically active natural products from Philippine Hypoxlon Species,鈥� will be a collaboration between UST as the 探花精选 Institution and the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research in Germany, represented by Prof. Dr. Marc Stadler, as Virtual Host Collaborator.

The project will look into 鈥渦ntapped fungal natural products from Philippine Hypoxylaceae,鈥� which when studied is seen to increase the chances of finding novel antibiotic compounds. The need for new chemotherapeutic treatments has been highlighted by the 鈥渞apid development of drug-resistant strains.鈥�

The virtual collaborative work aims to find new secondary metabolites with potent antibiotic properties and will last from September 2021 to January 2022, provides Georg Forster Humboldt alumni from 鈥渄eveloping and emerging countries who are facing multiple challenges during the long-lasting pandemic. Macabeo鈥檚 project will receive a lump-sum amount of 3,000 EUR per month.

Macabeo becomes one of the first recipients of the newly created Digital Cooperation Fellowship grant of the Humboldt Foundation, which also receives funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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Moreover, IUCD 2021 is accepting abstracts with no more than 350 words for the oral case presentation. Interested scholars may choose from the two categories: In-patient and Out-patient.

The deadline for submissions is on June 4, 2021, while the selected presenters and their works will be announced on June 11, 2021. The presenters also have a chance to receive the Best Presenter Award from the organizers.

For more information, please refer to the attached posters.

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The deadline of abstract and-paper submissions will be on June 15, 2021. The IACE2021 committee will notify the authors of accepted papers on July 31, 2021.

Here is the list of the topics:

Moreover, the accepted papers will be published in the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conference Proceedings (Indexed in Scopus & ISI).

Jointly organized by the UST Department of Mathematics and Physics and the Universiti Utara Malaysia 鈥� School of Quantitative Sciences, IACE2021 aims to host a vibrant and impactful conference that will serve as a niche for researchers in the areas of quantitative sciences, applied mathematics, and analytic.

Click on the link for the submission guidelines:

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The study aims to 鈥渆xplore the (potential) effects of the pandemic to adult learning and education programs by drawing from reflections from contrasting contexts of the three countries,鈥� namely, the Philippines, Afghanistan, and the United Kingdom. According to Lontoc, 鈥渇indings from this research will form part of a policy brief which contains recommendations to the governments concerned on the means by which governments and non-state actors could be able to take into consideration the needs of adult learners as COVID-19 continues to rampage.鈥�

This project will be managed by the British Association for Literacy in Development (BALID) and will be led by Dr. Ian Cheffy from Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and BALID, in collaboration with UEA UNESCO Chair team. 

The grant is given to the newly formed Transformare: A Network of Adult Literacy and Lifelong Learning Advocates. Lontoc and Topacio are the President and Secretary of Transformare, respectively. The network was launched on November 21, 2019 during the 1^st Gender, Adult Literacy, and Active Citizenship for Social Transformation (GALACST) International Conference in UST.

Lontoc and Topacio are researchers of the .

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With the aim of finding potential drug candidates to combat SARS-CoV2, the 鈥渟tudy focused on the exploitation of fungal secondary metabolites with profound antiviral activity on a range of known pathogenic viruses such as the human immunodeficiency virus, influenza virus, herpes simplex virus, and hepatitis C virus 鈥� as potential drug prototypes against the SARS-CoV2 virus.鈥�

Citing the fact that nearly half a million have died of COVID-19 鈥渂ecause of complications and lack of therapeutic regimens,鈥� Macabeo said the team was inspired to perform a 鈥渃omputational-driven research that enabled the screening of compounds previously obtained from fungi against enzymes/protein playing important role on viral infectivity and virulence of SARS-CoV2.鈥� Through bioinformatics and computational modelling, they were able to identify compounds that can potentially hamper the attachment, replication, protein maturation and even host immunity evasion potential of SARS-CoV2. These viral mechanisms, according to Macabeo, are important virulent factors that ascertain the successful invasion and infectivity of the said virus. Furthermore, if researchers 鈥渃an inhibit the enzymes and proteins essential for these mechanisms to happen, then [they] might be able to shut down the infectivity and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV2.鈥�

Macabeo and his fellow researchers 鈥渨ere able to fish out compounds from the antifungal library pool with promising anti-COVID properties under virtual conditions.鈥� Through molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations, and pharmacokinetic analysis, they point to the 鈥�in vitro and in vivo promise of these compounds for the discovery and development of anti-COVID drugs.鈥� Specifically, they found 鈥渇ive compounds with promising anti-COVID properties in silico. Of note, quinadoline B, a fungal-derived natural product, was found to inhibit all five target proteins and enzymes in SARS-CoV2. Given the promising activity of quinadoline B, this prompted us to do a further study, particularly doing structural iterations of this compound to improve its antiviral and pharmacokinetic properties.鈥�

The project was a collaboration between Thomasian scientists and experts from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. For this particular project, Chinese collaborators helped in performing molecular dynamics simulations for the lead compounds that the Thomasians identified through molecular docking and in silico ADMET profiling. The computer-assisted technologies provided by the Shanghai researchers helped validate the in silico results. At present, the study remains to be 鈥渙ne of the few computational studies that primarily tested secondary metabolites from fungi against SARS-CoV2.鈥�

The article was published on June 16, 2020 in the Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics: .

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Gathering over 100 attendees from different academic, government, and industry sectors, the second symposium updating the participants on the advances in polymers; materials science; nanotechnology; green, computational, medicinal, synthetic, and organic chemistry; and opening up possibilities of engaging them in meaningful collaborations.

The symposium held both plenary and poster presentation sessions over the two days.

Delivering talks were:

1. Distinguished Prof. Jui-Ming Yeh, PhD (Synthesis, characterization, and applications of biomimetic coating materials)
2. Prof. Jose H. Bergantin, Jr., PhD (Bacteriophage-based Impedimetric Biosensors for聽Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium聽补苍诲听Aeromonas hydrophila)
3. (Molecular Docking of Ipalbidine into Human Cyclooxygenase-2 Crystal Structures)
4. Asst. Prof. Rafael Alfonso, MSc (Molecular Docking: How to fight diseases with your laptop)
5. Prof. Chung-Der Hsiao, PhD (Use Zebrafish as an聽in vivo聽model to study obesity, aging, and ecotoxicity)
6. (Metabolomic profile analyses in the study of oleaginous and carotenogenous thraustochytrids)
7. Prof. Yi-Ning Chen, PhD (Emerging disease viruses in the bat populations of Taiwan)
8. (Inhibitory activity of some natural spiro-indole alkaloids in HIV latently infected cell lines)
9. Assoc. Prof. Hsi-Wei Jia, PhD (NMR Investigation of Acetylacetone Tautomerization)
10. (Asymmetric dearomatization of furans for the enantioselective synthesis of enterolactone natural products)
11. Asst. Prof. Amily Fang-Ju Jou, PhD (Optical genosensor for cancer screening)
12. (Bioactive Venom Peptides from Philippine Tarantula Phlogiellus bundokalbo [Theraposidae])

Three scientific posters were likewise recognized during the event. The three best scientific posters were:

1st Place

Enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis (ETBF) and Colorectal Cancer Development among Filipinos

by Ana Maria D. Cari帽o, Edrienne Myena M. Magat, Gregg Austine Balanag, Allan Felizar, Dr. Teresa Sy-Ortin, MD, , and .

This paper was a collaboration of people from UST鈥檚 , , , , and Hospital, as well as scientists from the Quirino State University and Mariano Marcos Memorial Hospital and Medical Center.

2nd Place

Discovery of novel SPIRODIOXYNAPHTHALENE derivatives with anti-microbial, nematicidal, and cytotoxic properties from Sparticola junci

by Katherine Yasmin M. Garcia, Charles David V. Pabillo, Chayanard Phukhamsakda, Kevin D. Hyde, Marc Stadler, and Prof. Allan Patrick G. Macabeo, Dr. rer. nat.

This transnational research was a collaboration among UST, Mae Fah Luyang University, and Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research 鈥� Braunschweig, Germany.

3rd Place

External Calibration vs Standard Addition Method in the Determination of Calcium in Drinking Water by ICP-OES for Proficiency Testing Studies

by Clarissa J. Gatchalian, Christian D. Laurio, Elyson Keith P. Encarnacion, and Benilda S. Ebarvia

The researchers represented the Department of Science and Technology鈥檚 Industrial Technology Development Institute.

The collaboration with CYCU began in 2010, when the first Memorandum of Understanding was first signed. Since then, CYCU has hosted UST鈥檚 Engineering, Physics, and Chemistry students for internship, as well as alumni and faculty for postgraduate studies.

A two-year joint project between Prof. Jui-Ming Yeh and was also finished in 2017, resulting in a number of international joint publications and theses topics of undergraduate and graduate students.

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For the students, the institution, the global community

Santiago underscored that internationalization activities redound to benefits for three main sectors: the students, the institution, and the global community.

With the intercultural fluency and soft skills development that students acquire comes a network of international contacts that can jumpstart a career in the international arena and true global citizenship. Such entry into the global workplace of equipped students can bring in the benefits of diversity to the workplace and society, which can become more open and inclusive. Ultimately, such openness to cultures and backgrounds, coupled with the mutual benefits people derive from one another, can redound to peace and order, which are an indirect but desired effect of people living together in harmony.

Talking about the benefit to the institution, Santiago noted that internationalization has aided in the goal of continuous quality improvement, for it, among other things, encouraged discussion and knowledge sharing, attracted talents to the University, created a positive impact on various accreditation efforts and even world rankings, as well as opened doors for scholarships, grants, and exchange opportunities through the enhanced networks the University was able to develop.

How UST does it

Santiago also enumerated UST鈥檚 five main internationalization programs, namely Student Mobility Programs, Faculty Diversity, Transnational Researches, Transnational Education, and Internationalization at 探花精选.

For Student Mobility Programs, student exchanges, summer schools, leadership training, discovery tours / academic visits, and research attachments through internships, clinical rotation, and service learning are done.

Apart from sending its students abroad, UST also receives students for mobility programs, for English Language Courses; Tropical Biodiversity and Urban Environment Community Immersion / Internships; Participation in Joint Conferences; and exchange programs funded by the ASEAN International Mobility of Students (AIMS), European Union Support for Higher Education in the ASEAN Region (EU-SHARE) and the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Regional Centre for Higher Education and Development (SEAMEO-RIHED). For the period of 2014-2017, South Korean students accounted for the largest cohort of inbound students, at 22%, with China coming in close at 21%.

Faculty diversity is seen through the slew of Visiting Lecturers and Professors (e.g., from the Linnaeus University 鈥� Sweden), Joint Thematic Conferences, Joint Scientific Activities, and Joint Research Supervision (e.g., Bioanalytical Nanotechnology School 鈥撀�Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain).

Currently, Transnational Research has led to at least three global projects, namely the collaboration among Lille 1, CARRTEL, INRA (France); University of Shiga Prefecture (Japan) and National Taiwan University; and the 探花精选 to extend the knowledge base on the effect of global changes, especially climate change, on freshwater plankton.

Currently, there are two researches funded by grants from the Newton Fund of the British Council, namely, the Eco-Social Surveying: Mapping Social Assets, Urban Greenery, and the Connections between Them in Rapidly Changing Cities (between the UST and the University of Reading School of Architecture); and the Affordable Near-Patient Tests for Infectious Diseases in the Philippines (between the UST and and the University of Cambridge).

For Transnational Education, five programs are currently running: 1) 3+2 BS Engineering; 2) 5+1 MS Engineering (both with the Catholic University of America); 3) 1+1 Dual MS Chemical Engineering, major in Metallurgical Engineering (with Curtin University 鈥� Australia); 4) Dual PhD in Built Environment / Architecture (with the University of Reading 鈥� United Kingdom); and the Master of Public Health (International) (with the University of Leeds, with which UST has an articulation agreement).

Finally, Internationalization At 探花精选 is how UST integrates 鈥渋nternational, intercultural, or global dimensions in the teaching and learning that takes place in the campus,鈥� done through learning a foreign language; interaction with international students through the Buddy System, tutorials, cultural activities, and joint activities, as well as integration of internationalization into the curriculum.

To provide better perspective, Santiago also enumerated UST鈥檚 early internationalization efforts, such as the pioneering of health science programs, namely the MS in Audiology (with Macquarie University); MS in Pain Management (with the University of Sydney); and MS in Physical Therapy (with the University of South Australia).

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