Three students recognized with CBS Graduate Student Best Paper Prize

The College of Biological Science is recognizing three graduate students who published exceptional peer-reviewed articles in 2023 with the CBS Graduate Student Best Paper Prize. The competition, now in its fifth year, awards one graduate student from each department with a $500 prize.

This year’s winners include:

Heather Petrick, a PhD student in Dr. Graham Holloway’s lab in Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, for her paper “Dietary nitrate and corresponding gut microbiota prevent cardiac dysfunction in obese mice,” published in the journal Diabetes

Elias Taylor, a PhD student in Dr. Andreas Heyland’s lab in Integrative Biology, for his paper “Thyroid Hormone Membrane Receptor Binding and Transcriptional Regulation in the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus,” published in Frontiers in Endocrinology

Alison Leonard, a PhD student in Dr. Georgina Cox’s lab in Molecular and Cellular Biology, for her paper “Autolysin-mediated peptidoglycan hydrolysis is required for the surface display of Staphylococcus aureus cell wall-anchored proteins,” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Congratulations to the winners!