Congratulations to our Graduate Students who earned recognition for their accomplishments at our Graduate Student Awards on December 19th, 2022!

Valerie Anderson Graduate Fellowship

  • Awarded for academic merit to an outstanding student in any subdiscipline of plant biology.

Recipient: Saad Hussain (Nambara Lab)

Kenneth C. Fisher Fellowship

  • Awarded in recognition of a student who maintains a high standard of academic and research achievement, balanced with outstanding extra-curricular contributions to their department.

Recipient: PJ Gamueda (Provart Lab)

Sheila Freeman Graduate Award in Zoology

  • Awarded to an incoming or in-progress graduate student focusing their studies in animal biology.

Recipient: Cindy Hong (Kim Lab)

Dr. Clara Winifred Fritz Memorial Fellowship in Plant Pathology

  • Awarded to students studying in the area of plant pathology demonstrating academic excellence.

Recipients: Aparna Haldar (Mott Lab)
                    Stephen Bordeleau (Goring Lab)

Duncan L. Gellatly Memorial Fellowship

  • Awarded each year to one or two graduate students demonstrating excellence in Virology and/or Molecular Biology research

Recipients: Arvin Persaud (Guzzo Lab)
                    Tiegh Taylor (Mitchell Lab)

Yoshio Masui Prize in Developmental, Molecular or Cellular Biology

  • Awarded to a master’s or doctoral student in the Department on the basis of academic merit.

Recipient: Gerald Lerchbaumer (Tepass Lab)

David F. Mettrick Fellowship

  • Awarded to a graduate student in CSB engaged in any aspect of zoological research.

Recipient: Sabrina Barsky (Monks Lab)

Dr. Klaus Rothfels Memorial Scholarship

  • Scholarship awarded on the basis of academic standing.

Recipient: Elina Kadriu (Christendat Lab)

Senior Alumni Association Prize in Cell & Systems Biology

  • Awarded to a student in the department based on academic merit.

Recipient: Nasha Sethna (Currie Lab)

Hilbert and Reta Straus Award

  • Awarded to a full-time graduate student who has demonstrated high research achievement in the fields of plant molecular or cellular biology.

Recipient: Jasmin Patel (Gazzarrini Lab)

Vietnamese-Canadian Community Graduate Award in Zoology

  • Awarded to a master’s or doctoral student studying animal biology based on academic merit and who exhibits research potential, excellent communication skills and leadership.

Recipient: Anhad Singh (Senatore Lab)

Elizabeth Ann Wintercorbyn Award

  • This first award is made to a student engaged in research work which is likely to prove beneficial to medicine.

Recipient: Ryan Ruan (Peever Lab)

Elizabeth Ann Wintercorbyn Award

  • The second half of the award goes to a student engaged in research work which is likely to prove beneficial to agriculture.

Recipient: Chris Blackman (Desveaux and Subramaniam Labs)

Ramsay Wright Scholarship in Cell and Systems Biology

  • Awarded to CSB students engaged in research in zoology.

Recipients: Timothy McLean (Zovkic Lab)
                     Miranda de Saint-Rome (Woodin Lab)

Zoology International Scholarship

  • This is the first of two awards for international students demonstrating high academic performance.

Recipient: Manisha Kabi (Filion Lab)

Zoology International Scholarship

  • This is the second award, again, going to international students demonstrating high academic performance.

Recipient: Jiashu Liu (Liu Lab)

Zoology Sesquicentennial Graduate Award

  • Awarded to a graduate student enrolled in full-time studies in CSB, on the basis of academic merit.

Recipient: Haoyu Wan (Bruce Lab)

Alfred and Florence Aiken and Dorothy Woods Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Cell and Systems Biology

  • Awarded based on academic merit.

Recipients: Osama Abdalla (Cheng Lab)
                    Mahbobeh Zamani Babgohari (Gonzales-Vigil Lab)

Rustom H. Dastur Graduate Scholarship in Cell and Systems Biology

  • Awarded to a graduate student studying plant sciences, on the basis of academic merit.

Recipient: Christine Nguyen (Nambara Lab)

Awards from earlier this year:

Dr. Christine Hone-Buske Scholarship for Outstanding Publication by a PhD Student

(Awarded in March)

Recipient: Gordana Scepanovic (Fernandez-Gonzalez Lab)

Joan M. Coleman Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology

(Awarded in June 2022 as part of the OGS competition)

Recipient: Natalie Hoffmann (McFarlane Lab)

Sherwin S. Desser Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology

(Awarded in June 2022 as part of the OGS competition)

Recipient: Mariela Faykoo-Martinez (Holmes Lab)