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2017
Phylicia Aaron
- UC Davis Graduate Student Travel Award
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund Trainee Travel Award for International Conference on Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis
- American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Student and Post Doctoral Award
- UC Davis Dissertation Year Fellowship
Bardo Castro
- Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
Jessica Franco
- A Cysteine-Rich Protein Kinase Associates with a Membrane Immune Complex and the Cysteine Residues Are Required for Cell Death in Plant Physiology, Designated Emphasis on the Biology of Vector-borne Diseases Travel Award
Charles Graddy
- Large-Scale Comparison of Bioaugmentation and Biostimulation Approaches for Biocementation of Sands in the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Taylor Heckman
- Floyd and Mary Schwall Fellowship in Medical Research
Dustin Heeney
- Microbiota, metabolome, and immune alterations in obese mice fed a high-fat diet containing type 2 resistant starch in Molecular Nutrition and Food Research
- Henry A. Jastro Research Award
Alexandria Igwe
- Natural Reserve Grant Recipient
Marina De Leon
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Jonathan Lin
- Fellowship Recipient for the Microbial Diversity Course at MBL (Wood's Hole, MA) for Summer 2017
- Henry A. Jastro Research Award
- Powerhouse Science Communication Fellowship Fall 2017
Anak Agung Dewi Megawati
- Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education
Shane McInally
- UCD Graduate Student Travel Award
Jessica Mizzi
- Draft genome of tule elk Cervus canadensis nannodes in F1000Research
Jared Nigg
- American Society for Virology Travel Award
- Henry A. Jastro Research Award
Christopher Nosala
- Giardia Colonizes and Encysts in High-Density Foci in the Murine Small Intestine in mSphere
- Transcriptomic Profiling of High-Density Giardia Foci Encysting in the Murine Proximal Intestine in Frontiers of Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Eric Pomaranski
- Characterization of spaC-type Erysipelothrix sp. isolates causing systemic disease in ornamental fish in Journal of Fish Diseases
- 1st place in NCASM poster presentation competition 3/4/17
Mohammad Julhasur Rahman
- Junior scientist registration grant for the 36th Annual Meeting for the American Society for Virology
Eric Stevens
- Powerhouse Science Communication Fellowship Fall 2017
Matt Wright
- Shared 1st prize for MGG Symposium Poster Award
Annabelle Yu
- Henry A. Jastro Research Award