{"id":645,"date":"2026-04-29T00:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/bridges\/?page_id=645"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:41:24","slug":"trainee-successes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/bridges\/trainee-successes\/","title":{"rendered":"Trainee achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trainee Success<\/h2>\n

In the Bridges lab, we place great value on trainee success. Here we highlight recent awards & honors achieved by members of the lab:<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

\n Summer Internship<\/span>\n Google X Moonshot Factory<\/span>\n
\n Seh Na Mellick<\/span>\n \u2022 Summer 2026<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n Summer Internship<\/span>\n Genentech<\/span>\n
\n Emmy Nguyen<\/span>\n \u2022 Summer 2026<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n Best Poster Award<\/span>\n CMU Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department Retreat<\/span>\n
\n Seh Na Mellick<\/span>\n \u2022 Jan 2026<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n
\n ASM Biofilms Mark Shirtliff Early Career Symposium Presenter Award<\/span>\n American Society for Microbiology<\/span>\n
\n Yangyang Liu<\/span>\n \u2022 Nov 2025<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n ASM Biofilms Conference Travel Award<\/span>\n American Society for Microbiology<\/span>\n
\n Yangyang Liu<\/span>\n \u2022 Nov 2025<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n Margaret Carver Travel Grant<\/span>\n CMU Department of Biological Sciences<\/span>\n
\n Yangyang Liu<\/span>\n \u2022 Nov 2025<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n Stupakoff Graduate Student Research Enrichment Grant<\/span>\n CMU Department of Biological Sciences<\/span>\n
\n Yangyang Liu<\/span>\n \u2022 May 2025<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n Travel Award<\/span>\n Mellon College of Science<\/span>\n
\n Sandhya Kasivisweswaran<\/span>\n \u2022 Jul 2025<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n Future Leaders Mentorship Fellowship<\/span>\n American Society for Microbiology<\/span>\n
\n Sandhya Kasivisweswaran<\/span>\n \u2022 May 2025 \u2013 May 2027<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n Finalist, 3 Minute Thesis Championship<\/span>\n Carnegie Mellon University<\/span>\n
\n Sandhya Kasivisweswaran<\/span>\n \u2022 Feb 2025<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n Outstanding Graduate Oral Presentation<\/span>\n Allegheny Branch ASM Meeting<\/span>\n
\n Sandhya Kasivisweswaran<\/span>\n \u2022 Nov 2024<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n Outstanding Poster Award<\/span>\n Molecular Biology of Bacteria and Phages (Madison, WI)<\/span>\n
\n Sandhya Kasivisweswaran<\/span>\n \u2022 Aug 2024<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n Margaret Carver Travel Award<\/span>\n CMU Department of Biological Sciences<\/span>\n
\n Sandhya Kasivisweswaran<\/span>\n \u2022 Aug 2024 & Oct 2025<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n PhD Spotlight (Top 5 university-wide)<\/span>\n Carnegie Mellon University<\/span>\n
\n Sandhya Kasivisweswaran<\/span>\n \u2022 May 2024<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n First Place Graduate Poster Presentation Award<\/span>\n Allegheny Branch ASM Meeting<\/span>\n
\n Emmy Nguyen<\/span>\n \u2022 Nov 2024<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n Margaret Carver Travel Award<\/span>\n CMU Department of Biological Sciences<\/span>\n
\n Emmy Nguyen<\/span>\n \u2022 2024<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n NSF GRFP<\/span>\n National Science Foundation<\/span>\n
\n Jojo Prentice<\/span>\n \u2022 Apr 2025<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n Staff Research Award<\/span>\n CMU Mellon College of Science<\/span>\n
\n Jojo Prentice<\/span>\n \u2022 May 2024<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n Sigma Xi Poster Competition Winner<\/span>\n CMU Meeting of the Minds<\/span>\n
\n Gillian Croteau<\/span>\n \u2022 2024<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-645","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/645\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}