The College of Biological Science is recognizing three graduate students who published exceptional peer-reviewed articles in 2023 with the CBS Graduate Student Best Paper Prize [1]. The competition, now in its fifth year, awards one graduate student from each department with a $500 prize.
This year’s winners include:
Heather Petrick, a PhD student in Dr. Graham Holloway’s lab in Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, for her paper “Dietary nitrate and corresponding gut microbiota prevent cardiac dysfunction in obese mice [2],” published in the journal Diabetes
Elias Taylor, a PhD student in Dr. Andreas Heyland’s lab in Integrative Biology, for his paper “Thyroid Hormone Membrane Receptor Binding and Transcriptional Regulation in the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus [3],” published in Frontiers in Endocrinology
Alison Leonard, a PhD student in Dr. Georgina Cox’s lab in Molecular and Cellular Biology, for her paper “Autolysin-mediated peptidoglycan hydrolysis is required for the surface display of Staphylococcus aureus cell wall-anchored proteins [4],” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Congratulations to the winners!