Achievement

IGERT students Tisza Bell and Robert Gardner earned two of only twelve positions in the 2011 US-EC course in Environmental Biotechnology in Lausanne, Switzerland last July. The two-week course entitled, ‘Microbial Catalysts for the Environment’ was designed to train early career scientists in state-of-the-art theoretical and practical aspects of microbial environmental biotechnology. The 2011 course emphasized identification and selection of microbial strains suitable for environmental application. This course is limited to 24 students, 12 from each side of the Atlantic, at the level of studying for a PhD degree or in the early phase of postdoctoral study. Both students were granted a fellowship to cover the course costs.