Student Publications & Awards

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2021

Marina De León

  • UC Davis Center for Population Biology Research Award

John Kinsella Award

The College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CA&ES) has established the Kinsella Memorial Prize in honor of the late Dean and Professor John Kinsella. The annual award of $3,500 is given to two outstanding individuals based on the quality and originality of the work, the multidisciplinary impact of the research, and the importance of the research to the college’s mission to serve agriculture, the environment, and human health and development.

Awarded to Zachary Alexander Bendiks, Microbiology
Major Professor: Maria Marco
Dissertation Title: “Variable gut microbiome responses to resistant starch type 2 across different host species”