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2026 SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award Winners

2026 SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award Winners

Please join us in congratulating our 2026 SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award Winners!

François Frejacques 

Institut de Biologie de l'ecole Normale Supérieure

Intraspecific variation in the duration of epigenetic inheritance

Anjali Gupta

University Of Kansas

Evolutionary history of two X chromosome meiotic drivers and polymorphic Y chromosomes in Drosophila affinis

Nadia Haghani

Stanford University

Insertion of an invading retrovirus regulates a novel color trait in swordtail fish

Oya Inanli

University Of Copenhagen

Recovering Lost Kveik Diversity in Farmhouse Brewing with Ancient Metagenomics

Wei-Han Lin

Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica

Epistasis between gene expression noise and functional mutations shapes cellular fitness

Arthur Matte

University Of Cambridge

The origins and molecular evolution of sperm

Jialin Wei

University of Bristol

Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals

Ira Zibbu

Michigan State University

Extensive Reorganization of the Escherichia coli Chromosome Over 75,000 Generations of Laboratory Evolution


Selection committee:

Jian Lu, Yun Song, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Julia Kreiner, Mia Levine, Mateja Hajdinjak, Daniel Croll, Diego del Vecchyo, Mehmet Somel, Nandita Garud

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