Please join us in congratulating our 2026 SMBE Undergraduate Travel and Mentoring Award Winners!

• Justin A. Chan (University of British Columbia)
• Alejandra Jimenez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
• Nandini Manepalli (University of Arizona)
• Abril Beltrán Castro (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico)
• Nikol Polakova (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
• Alyssa Cenzano (Arizona State University)
• Mattéo Todaro (Université de Montpellier)
• Alicia Bierly (University of Oregon)
• Alina Fomin (Uppsala University)

Selection Committee Chairs:

Aya Takahashi & Ravinder Kanda

Thank you to their mentors! Rafal Gutaker, Jasmin Rees, Miguel Arenas, Luciana Santoferrara, Keith Crandall, Li-Jun Ma, Yang Li, Carolin Kosiol, Xinjun Zhang, Frederic Delsuc