Awards

Congratulations to all of our award winners!

Two awards sponsored by the Society for Developmental Biology were presented for the best oral presentations, one for the best graduate student presentation and one for the best postdoctoral fellow presentation.  Each came with a travel award for the 2018 national Society for Developmental Biology meeting on July 22-24, 2018 in Portland, Oregon.

2018 MASDB Presentation Awardees:

Graduate student:  Benjamin Tajer, University of Pennsylvania

Postdoctoral Fellow:  Lijuan Du, University of Maryland College Park

 

We  also awarded prizes for the top three posters in 3 categories based on the first author and presenter of the poster:  postdoctoral fellow, graduate student, undergraduate student.

Undergraduate Poster Awards:

1st place – Mark Pownall, College of William and Mary

2nd place – Cameron Tumey, Swarthmore College

3rd place – Dina Collins, University of Delaware

Graduate Poster Awards:

1st place – Jessica Neville Little, University of Virginia

2nd place – Nina Sampilo, University of Delaware

3rd place – Margarita Correa-Mendez, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Postdoctoral Fellow Poster Awards:

1st place – Amber Stratman, NIH/NICHD

2nd place – Andrew Aman, University of Virginia

3rd place – Christina Cota, Swarthmore College