Grants and Fellowships

2014-2019    NIH/NIA K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
2011-2012    Ellison Medical Foundation/AFAR Postdoctoral Fellow
2008-2009    Dissertation Year Fellowship Award, University of Kentucky
2013             Keystone Symposia Future of Science Fund Scholarship, Keystone Symposia
2013             Annual NIA Summer Training fellowship in Experimental Aging Research
2011             Molecular Biology of Aging Summer Training fellowship at Marine Biology Laboratory
2008             Clarke & Knapp Travel Grant, University of Kentucky
2007             Publication Scholarship, University of Kentucky
2005-2008    Student Travel Grant, University of Kentucky

Awards and honors

2008             1st place in Student Oral Presentation Competition at 2008 National Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Reno, NV
2008             2nd place in Ph.D. Oral competition at 2008 Ohio Valley Entomological Association Student Forum, Dow Agrosciences, Indianapolis, IN
2007             1st place in the Ph.D. poster competition at 2007 National Conference on Agricultural Genomics, Purdue University
2006             2nd place in Student Poster Competition at 2006 National Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Indianapolis, IN