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