Lawrence was named a Beckman Young Investigator today. His award will support the lab’s work on developing new devices for measuring bacterial ecology. Many thanks to the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for its support!
Lawrence’s with Regina LaRocque and Peter Turnbaugh on gut microbial succession after cholera infection in humans has been published online at mBio. The paper has been featured in Nature Reviews Microbiology. Photo taken by Lawrence David in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Lawrence was named a Searle Scholar today. His award will support the lab’s work on developing approaches to control bacterial communities in humans. Many thanks to the Searle Scholars Program for their support! From the Program’s Press Release: April 13, 2015: Chicago, Illinois –…
Lawrence was named a Hartwell Investigator today. His award will support the lab’s work on necrotizing enterocolitis and the gut microbiota. Many thanks to the Hartwell Foundation for their support! From the Foundation’s Press Release: Memphis, TN, April 01, 2015 – The Hartwell Foundation today…
Congratulations to Sai on winning a SMIF Undergraduate User Program award! This award will give Sai $500 in monthly user fees at the Duke Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility for 1 year. Have fun in the SMIF Sai!
Lawrence’s manuscript with Eric Alm on daily gut and saliva microbiota dynamics for one year in humans has been published in Genome Biology. The paper has been featured by the Atlantic, the Scientist, Carl Zimmer, the National Geographic Daily News, NBCNews, Vox, the Huffington Post,…
Congratulations to Aspen, who has just been selected as a 2014 NDSEG Fellow! She was one of ~200 chosen from ~3000 applications. From the website: The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship is a highly competitive, portable fellowship…
Congratulations to Aspen Reese and rotation student Rachael Bloom on winning Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. Your hard work paid off! From the Program’s website: As the oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, the GRFP has a…
On February 18th, 2014, Lawrence was named an Alfred P Sloan Fellow. The Fellowship states: “Awarded in eight scientific and technical fields—chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, neuroscience, ocean sciences, and physics—the Sloan Research Fellowships are…
Lawrence’s paper he wrote as a Junior Fellow at Harvard with Peter Turnbaugh has just been published online at Nature. The paper has received quite a bit of press, including from media outlets like: Bloomberg, National Geographic: Phenomena, LiveScience, NPR, NY Daily…