2024 GDCB Honors and Awards Recognition Luncheon: Graduate students honored

June 12, 2024

Around 100 faculty, staff, postdocs and students affiliated with the Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology (GDCB) gathered together to celebrate the achievements of their colleagues over the past year at the 2024 GDCB Honors and Awards Recognition Luncheon on May 2. Among those recognized include several graduate students. Photos are by Abhas Bhatt.

2023-24 graduate student award recipients

Gladson Scholarship
Anurag Das (far left) and Nesreen Sedeek (second from right) received the David Gladson Scholarship for 2024-25. From left are Das, Steve Gladson, Deborah Gladson, Sedeek and Todd Ortberg.
2024 Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Symposium award recipients.
GDCB graduate students received awards at the 2024 Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Symposium. From left are Sabrena Rutledge, People's Choice Award (oral presentation) and Chelsea Cheng (second place oral competition). Matthew Wendt received first place in the poster competition. 
2nd Annual Lauter Award for Graduate Student Creativity and Research Excellence recipient Brian Zebosi with GDCB Chair Yanhai Yin
Graduate student Brian Zebosi (right) received the 2nd Annual Lauter Award for Graduate Student Creativity and Research Excellence. GDCB Chair Yanhai Yin (left) congratulates him.
2023-24 GDCB Teaching Excellence Award recipients.
GDCB Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award recipients are, from left, Anh Pham, Abbigail McCune, Panchali Chakraborty and Anthony Sillman.
2023-24 recipients Dale W. Young and W.E. Loomis Fund Travel Awards and Sui Tong Chang Fung Fund Travel Awards
Several GDCB graduate students received travel awards in fall 2023 and spring 2024. GDCB Chair Yanhai Yin (left) congratulates some of the recipients of Dale W. Young and W.E. Loomis Fund Travel Awards and Sui Tong Chang Fung Fund travel awards. From left are Yin, Brian Zebosi, Abesh Bera, Jacinta Correia, Vaishali Todi, Sabrena Rutledge, Anh Pham and Ankur Kumar. Other recipients included Jodi Callwood, Haris Variz and Peiduo Liu.
ISU Graduate College 3MT 1st place recipient.
Ashwini Rangaraj received first place in the Iowa State University Graduate College Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. From left are Rangaraj and her major professor, GDCB Professor Geetu Tuteja.
GDCB Travel Award recipients and REX recipient.
The department recognized its 2023-24 GDCB Travel Awards recipients and a Research Excellence Award recipient from 2024. From left are: Brian Zebosi (REX recipient), and Anurag Das and Chelsea Cheng (GDCB Travel Award recipients). Peiduo Liu and James Preston also are recipients of the GDCB Travel Award.