Awards
The Rocky Mountain Branch of ASM awards students and postdoctoral fellows that present posters and talks at our annual Meetings. The requirements for the awards include:
1) Branch membership
2) Consensus of votes tallied online during the meeting by all attending members.
Award Winners for Spring 2026 Meeting
PostDoc Posters
First Place: Siva Uppalapati
Second Place: Daqing Jiang
Third Place: Lexi Carey
Graduate Posters
First Place: Kyle Dickerson
Second Place: Anne Chenchar
Third Place: Sydney Hall
Undergraduate Posters
First Place: Olivia Kreutzer
Second Place: Kylee Pham
Third Place: Owen Plett
PostDoc Talks
First Place: Blaire McNeil
Second Place: Fabiana Bisaro
Third Place: Carolyn Cornell
Graduate Talks
First Place: Andrea Serano
Second Place: Sam Golon
Third Place: Colin Sempeck
Undergraduate Talks
First Place: Ryan Thompson
Second Place: Isabella Hamner
Third Place: Jordan Kinney
Students that win an award at our annual meetings are eligible to compete for a $750.00 Travel Award to MICROBE. The Branch will support two of these awards annually. More information on travel award applications for 2025 will be announced after the annual meeting in April.
In addition, the Branch recognizes students with the most enthusiastic undergraduate talk at the Spring Meeting with the Randall Cohrs Award ($202)