Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural CBS Best Academic Paper Award

Posted on Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019

Glen Van Der Kraak presents awards to the winners of the Best Academic Paper award.

Glen Van Der Kraak presents awards to the winners of the Best Academic Paper award, Logan Townsend and Wendy Van Drunen. Photo credit: David Josephy

Congratulations to the recipients of the inaugural CBS Best Academic Paper award! Graduate students were nominated by their supervisors, and a winner was selected from each department in the college. All nominees were lead authors on a publication in a peer-reviewed journal in 2018. The award features a $500 prize and a certificate, which was awarded by Glen Van Der Kraak, Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, at this year's CBS BBQ. This year's winners are:

Human Health and Nutritional Sciences: Logan Townsend
Loss of glucagon signaling alters white adipose tissue browning
Published in The FASEB Journal

Integrative Biology: Wendy Van Drunen
Immediate vs. evolutionary consequences of polyploidy on clonal reproduction in an autopolyploid plant
Published in Annals of Botany

Molecular and Cellular Biology: Dave Synchantha
PatB1 is an O-acetyltransferase that decorates secondary cell wall polysaccharides
Published in Nature Chemical Biology

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