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Recent awards received by GDCB Graduate Students

Divita Mathur
Divita Mathur

Congratulations to Divita Mathur, a BCB PhD candidate in Professor Eric Henderson’s lab.  She and Prof. Henderson were among a group of ISU authors of a paper to receive the International Federation for Information Processing’s IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for the best paper of the 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering held in Västerås, Sweden in fall 2014.  The paper, titled Automated Requirements Analysis for a Molecular Watchdog Timer, was published in the Proceedings of the 29th ACM/IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering, Pages 767-778.  It is the authors’ collective work in the requirements analysis for a particular synthetic DNA system.  Divita’s contribution was in theory construction as well as the experimental verification.  Samuel Ellis, the paper’s first author, represented the group at the conference and received the award on their behalf.

To learn more about the IFIP TCQ Manfred Paul award, visit their IFIP website.

Melanie Torrie
Melanie Torrie

Congratulations also to Melanie Torrie, a genetics and genomics PhD student in Professor Jeff Essner’s lab.  Melanie was awarded a Brown Graduate Fellowship this spring.  This fellowship is awarded by the Vice President of Research to advance ISU research in the areas of science, agriculture, and space science.