UNLV graduate student and faculty microbiologists traveled to Tuba City, in the Navajo Nation for the regional American Society for Microbiology conference. Microbiologists from across Arizona and Southern Nevada attended to share their research. Three UNLV graduate students were awarded prizes for their research talks. They were Austin Dmitrieff-Finneran (Ph.D. candidate; B. Tseng), Monika Karney (MS candidate; H. Wing), and Nasibeh Arabameri (Ph.D. candidate; B. Tseng).