John C wins the Russell B. DuVall Award!

Congrats to MMG grad student John Chodkowski! He has been recognized as with the Russell B. DuVall MMG Award, which is given to honor a student who "shows exceptional motivation and capacity to achieve his educational and professional goals".

John C works on ShadeLab's synthetic community (SynCom) system to explore how stress impacts microbial interactions that are mediated via released metabolites. He also studies the dynamics and mechanisms of co-evolution between two antagonistic microbial strains, a Burkholderia and a Flavobacterium.

On account of COVID19 closures, MMG is not going to be holding its spring awards reception. But, we in ShadeLab are all celebrating for John C by dancing like fools in each of our separate living rooms.

Hooray for John C! Well-deserved!