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2019
Zachary Bendiks
- Poster Presentation award MGG Recruitment 2019
Megan Christensen
- MGG Mini-fellowship
Laurynne Coates
- Viable and total bacterial populations undergo equipment- and time-dependent shifts during milk processing in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Trevor Croft
- A functional link between NAD+ homeostasis and N-terminal protein acetylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in Journal of Biological Chemistry
- The copper-sensing transcription factor Mac1, the histone deacetylase Hst1, and nicotinic acid regulate de novo NAD+ biosynthesis in budding yeast in Journal of Biological Chemistry
Jessica Franco
- UC Davis Graduate Student Travel Award
- MGG Mini-fellowship
Sarah Guest
- Poster Presentation award MGG Recruitment 2019
Taylor Heckman
- Outstanding competition poster at the Northern California American Society for Microbiology
- 1st place in oral presentations at the AFS-Fish Health Section and Western Fish Diseases Workshop
Dustin Heeney
- Sensitivity to the two peptide bacteriocin plantaricin EF is dependent on CorC, a membrane-bound, magnesium/cobalt efflux protein in Microbiology Open
Britta Heiss
- Animal Models of Infectious Diseases (AMID) T32 Training Grant
Nick Jensen
Marina De León
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Panamá: Short Term Fellowship
- Awarded the graduate travel funding to attend the “Utility of Microbiomes for Population Management” symposium in October 2019
Jonathan Lin
- MGG Mini-fellowship
William Louie
- Best Zoonotic Poster at the Northern California American Society for Microbiology
- Graduate Fellowship from the Pacific Southwest Center of Excellence in Vector-borne Diseases
Jared Nigg
- UC Davis Graduate Student Travel Award
- MGG Mini-fellowship
Chorong Park
- Species‐specific inhibition of antiviral protein kinase R by capripoxviruses and vaccinia virus in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Poster Presentation award MGG Recruitment 2019
Beatriz Merchel P Pereira
- Benzalkonium chlorides: Uses, regulatory status, and microbial resistance in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Marc Pollack
- MGG Mini-fellowship
Andrew Rogers
- MGG Mini-fellowship
- Animal Models of Infectious Diseases (AMID) T32 Training Grant
Jordan Sayre
- MGG Mini-fellowship
Rene Suleiman
- Trogocytosis by Entamoeba histolytica Mediates Acquisition and Display of Human Cell Membrane Proteins and Evasion of Lysis by Human Serum in mBio
- MGG Mini-fellowship
Connor Tiffany
- omu, a Metabolomics Count Data Analysis Tool for Intuitive Figures and Convenient Metadata Collection in Microbiology Resource Announcements
- Summer GSR award to support graduate research in engineering, computer sciences, and disciplines with engineering-related applications and methods