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Student Awards and Presentations

National Awards

• American Society for Microbiology General Meeting Student Travel Award (2004, 2006, 2007)
• 2006 New England Biolabs Student Travel Award
• 2005 Kikkoman Corporation Student Travel Award
• 1st place award, 8th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2005)
• 2003 E.I. DuPont deNemours and Company Student Travel Award

National Presentations

• 2007 American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, Toronto ON - Topic: Improved bioethanol productivity using E. coli FBR5 derivatives with dual resistance to furfural and ethanol.
• 2007 American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, Toronto ON - Topic: Genetic evidence that disruption of S-layer integrity facilitates lead phosphate precipitation.
• 2006 American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, Orlando FL - Topic: Characterization of furfural resistant derivatives of an ethanologenic strain of Escherichia coli.
• 2006 American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, Orlando FL - Topic: Phenotypic analysis of E. coli FBR5 derivatives isolated from successive alcohol challenges.
• 2006 American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, Orlando FL - Topic: Linkage of lead hyper-precipitation and non-precipitation loci in Caulobacter crescentus.
• 2005 American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, Atlanta GA - Topic: Unusual toxicological properties associated with ethanol-tolerant derivatives of E. coli FBR5.
• 2005 American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, Atlanta GA - Topic: Genetic analysis of microbial lead precipitation by Caulobacter crescentus.
• 2004 American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, New Orleans LA - Topic: Use of isogenic strains to demonstrate that lead phosphate precipitation correlates with lead resistance.
• 2003 American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, Washington DC - Topic: Evidence that Vibrio harveyi can respond to quorum signals other than just AI1 and AI2.
• 2003 American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, Washington DC - Topic: Precipitation of lead as Pb9(PO4)6 by marine and freshwater bacteria.
• The 56th Annual Conference Phycological Society of America. Salishan, Oregon. - Topic: Periphytic Algae as indicators of Nitrogen Enrichment in New Jersey Lakes”.
• The 54th Annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America. San Diego, CA. - Topic: Algae as water quality indicators of dystrophic ponds”.
• The 23rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology. Montreal, Canada - Topic: Construction of mutant recombinant adenoviruses to study the repressing mechanism of IVa2 transcription

International Presentations

• 2005 International Botanical Conference, Vienna, Austria - Topic: “Green algae from Cryptogamic Crusts, San Fe, New Mexico"
• 2005 Field trip to Bangladesh - Topic: Arsenic removal from groundwater using algae
• 2005 XIII International Congress of Virology, San Francisco, CA - Topic: Identification of non-conserved residues of adenovirus DNA polymerase contributing to entry into the late phase of the adenoviral infectious cycle.

Fellowships

• 2006 National Science Foundation Fellowship
• Undergraduates Summer Program at Donald Danforth Plant Center, St. Louis, MO.