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Jul 2023 Andrea Sama and her advisor, Jazz Dickinson, are awarded one of only 50 HHMI Gilliam Fellowships to support diversity in science! Congratulations!
Jun 2023 We are excited to welcome our newest group of PiBS trainees! Check out the whole list of 2023 inductees and their mentors on the Trainees page!
Apr 2023 Congratulations to Alison Vicary for her publication in PLoS Pathogens ! This is part of Alison’s thesis work on influenza virus and the host innate immune response, and includes contributions from PiBS trainees Asama Lekbua and Zaida Rodriguez.
Apr 2023 Congratulations to Jose Chacon and Andrew Kapinos for receiving a predoctoral fellowship award from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP)!
Jan 2023 Congratulations to Crisandra Diaz for her publication in Frontiers in Nutrition titled “ Developing algae as a sustainable food source”!
Sep 2022 Sarah Ardell receives the Biological Sciences Founding Faculty Award for Graduate Excellence for her dissertation research. Congratulations Sarah!
Jul 2022 Congratulations to Jessica Mullins for being awarded a Bloom-Hays Ecological Research Grant from the Sea and Sage Audubon Society!
Jun 2022 Lennice Castro and her advisor, Matthew Daugherty, are awarded an HHMI Gilliam Fellowship to support diversity in science! Congratulations!
Jun 2022 Thrilled to add our newest group of PiBS trainees to the training grant! Check out the whole list of 2022 inductees and their mentors on the Trainees page!
Apr 2022 Congratulations to Lennice Castro, Nathan Stutzman, Alison Vicary, and Amanda Wacker for receiving Honorable Mentions from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP)!
Mar 2022 Congratulations to Lennice Castro for being awarded a Ford Foundation predoctoral fellowship from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)!
Dec 2021 Congratulations to Sarah Ardell for her publication in eLife titled “ The population genetics of collateral resistance and sensitivity”!
Sep 2021 Congratulations to Ashley Kim for her publication in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology titled “ What is that smell? Hummingbirds avoid foraging on resources with defensive insect compounds”!
Jun 2021 Analine Aguayo and her advisor, Sonya Neal, are awarded an HHMI Gilliam Fellowship to support diversity in science! Congratulations!
Jun 2022 A big welcome to our newest group of PiBS trainees! Check out the whole list of 2021 inductees and their mentors on the Trainees page!
Sep 2020 Michael Overton and Sumedha Ravishankar receive UCSD Excellence in Teaching awards for their exceptional teaching of undergraduates.
Apr 2020 Congratulations to Sumedha Ravishankar for receiving an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP)!
Apr 2019 Congratulations to Peter Berube for receiving an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP)!