Olivia Duddy of the Bassler Lab won the prestigious Thomas J. Silhavy Award at this year's Molecular Biology Retreat. Xiao Fan of the Yan lab was recognized for outstanding service as a Postdoc.

Other awards presented during this year's Molecular Biology retreat were teaching awards, won by graduate students Eric Franklin and Vanessa Gonzalez.

Recognition was also given to talk and poster presenters: Best Grad Poster--Edna Normand; Best Postdoc Poster--Paola Estrada; Best Grad Talk--Katelyn Cook; Best Postdoc Talk--Nicholas Treen.

Congratulation to all this year's winners.