Lein Lab: Our most valuable asset - the people who work here

Past Trainee Awards

Peter Andrew

  • Student's Choice Poster Winner, UC Davis Pharmacology and Toxicology Graduate Program Recruitment, 2023
  • Toshio Narahashi Graduate Student Poster Competition Award, Neurotoxicology Specialty Section, 3rd Place, 2023
  • Northern California Regional Chapter SOT, Graduate Student Achievement Award, 1st Place, 2023
  • ARCS Foundation Scholar, 2020-2023
  • UC Davis Graduate Student Travel Award, 2022
  • UC Davis Graduate Student Support Program Fellowship, 2020-2021
  • Northern California Regional Chapter, SOT, Graduate Student Achievement Award, 2020Christopher Barnhart
  • NorCal SOT Graduate Student Achievement Award, 2012, 2014
  • Chancellor's Ambassador, 2012 - 2013
  • ARCS Predoctoral Scholarship, 2010 – 2014
  • Superfund Basic Sciences Research Fellowship, 2010 - 2014
  • NIEHS T32 Predoctoral Fellowship, 2010 - 2012

Pedro Negri Bernardino

  • CounterACT Trainee Travel Award, 17th Annual CounterACT Network Research Symposium, 2024
  • SOT Neurotoxicology Specialty Section Graduate Student Poster competition, 2nd Place (tie), 2024
  • Northern California Regional Chapter SOT, Graduate Student Achievement Award, 3rd Place, 2024
  • SOT Graduate Student Travel Award, Annual Meeting & ToxExpo, 2024
  • CounterACT Trainee Travel Award, 16th Annual CounterACT Network Research Symposium, 2023
  • UC Davis Graduate Student Travel Award, 2023
  • Northern California Regional Chapter SOT, Graduate Student Achievement Award, 3rd Place, 2023
  • NeuroToxicology Cover Image, 2023
  • UC Davis Lodric Maddox Graduate Fellowship, 2022-2023
  • UC Davis Integrative Pathobiology Research Symposium Student Research Presentation, 3rd Place, 2022 

Thomas Blackmon

  • Cover image: Journal of NeuroToxicology, May 2021, volume 84

Jonas Calsbeek

  • Neurotoxicology Specialty Section, SOT, Poster Competition, 4th Place, 2020
  • Northern California Regional Chapter, SOT, Graduate Student Achievement Award, 2nd Place, 2020
  • Graduate Student Support Program Predoctoral Fellowship, 2019-2020
  • CounterACT Excellence Award for Oral Presentation, 2019
  • ASPET Mentoring Network Award, 2018

Hao Chen

  • NIEHS T32 Predoctoral Fellowship, 2012 – 2014
  • SOT Neurotoxicology Specialty Section, Graduate Student Poster Award, 3rd Place, 2014
  • CETI Trainee, 2014
  • Superfund Basic Sciences Research Fellowship, 2011 - 2014

Eduardo Gonzalez

  • F31 NIH/NINDS Predoctoral Fellowship, 2019-2021
  • Northern California Graduate Student Achievement Award, Society of Toxicology, 1st Place, 2019
  • Neurotoxicology Poster Competition, Society of Toxicology, 2nd Place, 2019
  • Graduate Student Travel Award, Hispanic Organization of Toxicologists, 2019
  • Graduate Student of Color Research Symposium Award, UC Davis, 1st Place, 2018
  • Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Graduate Scholarship, 2018
  • NIH Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) Predoctoral Fellowship, 2017-2018
  • Jeffery and Marsha Gibeling Predoctoral Fellowship, 2017-2018
  • Pfizer SOT Undergraduate Student Travel Award, 2016

Michelle Guignet

  • Northern California SOT Graduate Student Achievement Award, 2019
  • Northern California Regional Chapter SOT, Graduate Student Achievement Award,  2nd Place, 2018
  • UC Davis Graduate Student Association Travel Award, 2018
  • Park City Epilepsy Travel Award, 2018
  • David and Dana Loury Foundation Fellowship, 2015 – 2018
  • Freedland Fellowship, 2016
  • NIGMS T32 Predoctoral Fellowship- UC Davis Pharmacology, 2014 - 2015
  • Neurotox Specialty Section of SOT Graduate Student Poster Award, 2014

Brad Hobson

  • Northern California Chapter of the Society of Toxicology Graduate Student Achievement Award, 2017
  • ARCS Foundation Scholar - Northern California Chapter, 2014 - 2017
  • Society of Toxicology Neurotoxicology Specialty Section Poster Competition, 1st Place, 2014
  • David and Dana Loury Foundation Fellowship, 2014 – 2015
  • NIGMS T32 Predoctoral Fellowship – UC Davis Pharmacology, 2013 – 2014
  • Travel Award, UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies

Jason Loxterkamp

Jeremy MacMahon

  • UC Davis Graduate Student Travel Award, 2024
  • SOT Neurotoxicology Specialty Section Graduate Student Poster competition, 2nd Place (tie), 2024
  • UC Davis Richard A. Freedland Graduate Research Fellowship, 2024
  • Northern California Regional Chapter SOT, Graduate Student Achievement Award, 2nd Place, 2024
  • UC Davis and Humanities Grad Research Award, 2024
  • NeuroToxicology Cover Image 2024
  • SOT Graduate Student Travel Award, Annual Meeting & ToxExpo, 2024
  • Northern California Regional Chapter SOT, Graduate Student Achievement Award, 2nd Place, 2023
  • 15th Annual CounterACT Research Symposium Travel Award, 2022

Lauren Matelski

  • Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society travel award, Sept 2017

Kelley Patten

  • SOT Neurotoxicology Specialty Section, Toshio Narahashi Graduate Student Poster Competition, 1st Place, 2020
  • T32 Predoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Health Sciences, 2018 - 2020
  • International Neurotoxicology Association, David Ray Award for Best Oral Presentation, 2019
  • International Society for Neurochemistry Conference Travel Award, 2019
  • UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center Symposium, Best Poster Award, 2019
  • T32 Predoctoral Fellowship in Learning, Memory and Plasticity, 2017-2018
  • Richard A. Freedland Fellowship (2017)

Sunjay Sethi

  • Neurotoxicology Specialty Section, SOT, Graduate Student Poster Award, 3rd Place, 2018
  • Northern California SOT Graduate Student Achievement Award, 1st Place, 2018
  • NIEHS T32 Fellowship, 2016-2017
  • Freeland Fellowship, 2016
  • Floyd and Mary Schwall Fellowship in Medical Research, 2014-2016

Frances Shaffo

  • Northern California SOT Graduate Student Achievement Award, 2015
  • Freedland Fellowship, 2014-2015
  • CCRBM NHBLI T32 Predoctoral Fellowship, 2013 - 2016

Marianna Stamou

  • SOT Neurotoxicology Specialty Section, Graduate Student Poster competition, 2nd Place, 2014
  • Superfund Basic Sciences Research Fellowship, 2013 - 2015
  • Freedland Fellowship, 2012 - 2014
  • NorCal SOT Best Abstract Award, 2011

Yi-Hua (Teresa) Tsai

  • Neurotoxicology Specialty Section (NTSS), SOT, Best Student Abstract Award, 3rd Place, 2022 

Bianca Yaghoobi

  • Neurotoxicology Specialty Section, SOT, Poster Competition Award, 2nd Place, 2020
  • Northern California Regional Chapter, SOT, Graduate Student Achievement Award, Honorable Mention, 2020
  • NIH Undergraduate Preparation Fellowship, 2016 – 2017

Kyla Walter

  • NIEHS T32 Predoctoral Fellowship, 2014 – 2016
  • Richard A. Freedland Fellowship, 2014-2015
  • CTSC T32 Predoctoral Fellowship, 2013-2014

Rebecca Wilson

  • SOT Graduate Student Travel Award, Annual Meeting & ToxExpo, 2024
  • Emmy Werner and Stanley Jacobsen Fellowship, 2023-2024
  • UC Davis Professors for the Future Program, 2023-2024
  • International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Travel Award, 2023