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Past ASM Peggy Cotter Travel Award Winners
The ASM Peggy Cotter Travel Award Program for Early Career Branch Members provides funds for outstanding early career DC Branch members to attend ASM Microbe.
2022 Recipient
Yaprak Özakman, Ph.D.
Research Scholar
Memorial Sloan Kettering Research Center
Website: https://www.mskcc.org/research/ski/labs/members/yaprak-ozakman
2020 Recipients
Josephine Hyde, Ph.D.
Postdoc
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Josephine_Hyde2
Apollo Stacy, Ph.D.
Postdoc
National Institutes of Health
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Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=u4ljzqkAAAAJ&hl=en
With the cancellation of the ASM Microbe 2020 meeting, 2020 Peggy Cotter Awards for Early Career Branch Members have been deferred for future meetings.
Rok Tkavc, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
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Website: https://www.usuhs.edu/national/faculty/rok-tkavc-phd
2019 Recipients
Devrim Kaya, Ph.D.
Postdoc
The University of Maryland College Park Department of Civil and Enviornmental Engineering
Website: cee.umd.edu/clark/faculty/848/Devrim-Kaya
S. Stephanie Garcia-Buntley, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Uniformed Services University
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Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ssgarcia
Kathleen D. Cusick Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Website: biology.umbc.edu/directory/faculty/person/MG49731/
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