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. This award is currently seeking sponsorship.
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
Nominations will reopen in 2027.
Past Awardees
Best Oral Presentation
- 2024: Sobhana Sripada for “Derisking biomanufacturing through host cell protein (HCP) removal using peptides as ligands”
- 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
- 2024: Fauziah Rahma Zakaria for “Rewiring redox-responsive promoters for electronic control of microbial gene expression”
- 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”