The John Spangler Nicholas Award has been given to three MCDB grad students
![jaymin patel, danyan li and shuke xiao](https://mcdb.yale.edu/sites/default/files/john_spangler_nicholas_award_recipients_thumb.jpg)
May 23, 2022
- Jaymin Patel – Dissertation Title: Cross-Kingdom Expression of Synthetic Genetic Elements Promotes the Discovery of a New Class of Nucleotide Analogs From the Human Microbiome / December 2021 / Advisers Farren Isaacs and Jason Crawford
- Danyan Li – Dissertation Title: PIWI-Mediated Control of Tissue-Specific Transposons Is Essential for Somatic Cell Differentiation / December 2021 / Adviser Josien van Wolfswinkel
- Shuke Xiao - Dissertation Title: Drosophila Chemoreception and Threats of the Anthropocene / May 2022 / Adviser John Carlson