Isenberg Receives Nat Sternberg Award

Dr. Ruth Isenberg, postdoctoral researcher in DMI, received the prestigious Nat Sternberg Award from the annual Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phage Meeting “for outstanding PhD work in the field of bacterial molecular biology.” Dr. Isenberg earned her PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently an NIH IRACDA fellow in the lab of Dr. Julia Willett in DMI. This award is given annually for the top PhD thesis in the field of bacterial genetics and molecular biology. Dr. Isenberg received her award on August 5, 2024 at the "Phage Meeting" in Madison, where she also delivered an invited talk about her work.