W.H. Peterson Award for Best Student Presentations
Background
W.H. Peterson was a professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin (1910 – 1950). He was a pioneer in fermentation technology, in particular penicillin production. This award was established and first awarded in 1969.
The W.H. Peterson Award is granted annually for the best oral presentation by a student and the best poster by a student in BIOT-sponsored sessions at the annual ACS National Meeting. The Division of Biochemical Technology is pleased to have Gibco Cell Culture – Invitrogen as a continuing financial sponsor of the award.
The awardees each receive a $1000 cash award and a commemorative plaque. Additionally, each of the Awardees will receive up to a $250 catalog credit from Gibco Cell Culture – Invitrogen for their research groups.
Nomination
If students are accepted to give a talk or poster, they can apply for the award here by February 28, 2024. Awardees will be announced the year following the student’s presentation. Advisors should encourage their students to apply for the award.
Past Awardees
Best Oral Presentation
- 2023: Soonwoo Hong for “Activatable fluorescent silver nanoclusters for nucleic acid detection”
- 2022: Spenser R. Brown for “Effects of Fluid Shear Stress on Reactive Oxygen Species Generation, Stemness, and Epithelial-To-Mesenchymal Transition”
- 2021: Eric VanArsdale for “Connecting Biology to Electronics Through A Redox Communication Network of Tyrosine, Tyrosinase, and Eumelanin”
Best Poster Presentation
- 2023: Sagar Bhattacharya for “NMR-guided directed evolution”
- 2022: Kabir Dhingra for “Exploring the Preferred Binding Domans of IgG1 mAbs to Multimodal Adsorbents Using Covalent Labeling and Mass Spectrometry”
- 2021: Xiaozhe Ding for “Bioinspired Design of Adeno-Associated VIral Capsids With Expanded Sizes”