Jessica Grifaldo (Life Sciences), Erin Cassin (Life Sciences), Dengxun Lai (Life Sciences), Landon Netherton (Life Sciences), Efren Heredia (Chemistry), Ryan Doss (Life Sciences), and Monika Karney (Life Sciences) all won prizes for their oral or poster presentations at the Regional American Society for Microbiology Meeting that was held in the SEB on UNLV campus on Saturday, April 13.

These graduate students and a technician gave presentations on their microbiology research. There were 150 attendees at the meeting, three industrial exhibitors/sponsors, and representatives from seven higher education institutes in Nevada and Arizona. Twenty-eight of the 88 presentations made at this meeting were delivered by UNLV, undergraduates, graduates, or staff! We thank the School of Life Sciences, College of Sciences, and UNLV Division of Research for their support!