Trainee Achievements
Trainee Success
In the Bridges lab, we place great value on trainee success. Here we highlight recent awards & honors achieved by members of the lab:
Summer Internship
Google X Moonshot Factory
Seh Na Mellick
• Summer 2026
Summer Internship
Genentech
Emmy Nguyen
• Summer 2026
Best Poster Award
CMU Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department Retreat
Seh Na Mellick
• Jan 2026
ASM Biofilms Mark Shirtliff Early Career Symposium Presenter Award
American Society for Microbiology
Yangyang Liu
• Nov 2025
ASM Biofilms Conference Travel Award
American Society for Microbiology
Yangyang Liu
• Nov 2025
Margaret Carver Travel Grant
CMU Department of Biological Sciences
Yangyang Liu
• Nov 2025
Stupakoff Graduate Student Research Enrichment Grant
CMU Department of Biological Sciences
Yangyang Liu
• May 2025
Travel Award
Mellon College of Science
Sandhya Kasivisweswaran
• Jul 2025
Future Leaders Mentorship Fellowship
American Society for Microbiology
Sandhya Kasivisweswaran
• May 2025 – May 2027
Finalist, 3 Minute Thesis Championship
Carnegie Mellon University
Sandhya Kasivisweswaran
• Feb 2025
Outstanding Graduate Oral Presentation
Allegheny Branch ASM Meeting
Sandhya Kasivisweswaran
• Nov 2024
Outstanding Poster Award
Molecular Biology of Bacteria and Phages (Madison, WI)
Sandhya Kasivisweswaran
• Aug 2024
Margaret Carver Travel Award
CMU Department of Biological Sciences
Sandhya Kasivisweswaran
• Aug 2024 & Oct 2025
PhD Spotlight (Top 5 university-wide)
Carnegie Mellon University
Sandhya Kasivisweswaran
• May 2024
First Place Graduate Poster Presentation Award
Allegheny Branch ASM Meeting
Emmy Nguyen
• Nov 2024
Margaret Carver Travel Award
CMU Department of Biological Sciences
Emmy Nguyen
• 2024
NSF GRFP
National Science Foundation
Jojo Prentice
• Apr 2025
Staff Research Award
CMU Mellon College of Science
Jojo Prentice
• May 2024
Sigma Xi Poster Competition Winner
CMU Meeting of the Minds
Gillian Croteau
• 2024