Curriculum Vitae Highlights
The following are select highlights from my Curriculum Vitae.
To see the full version of my CV, please see here: Jacob L. Steenwyk's CV (last updated August 2022)
Education
2022 Ph.D. Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Advisor: Antonis Rokas
GPA: 3.97
2016 M.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Clark University, Worcester, MA
Advisor: John G. Gibbons
GPA: 3.98
2015 B.A. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Clark University, Worcester, MA
Advisor: Denis Larochelle
Summa cum laude
Cumulative GPA: 3.84
Science GPA: 3.84
Select Awards
2022 Graduate Student Excellence Award Finalist, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
2022 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Finalist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2022 Edward Ferguson Jr. Graduate Award, Graduate School, Vanderbilt University
2022 James F. Crow Early Career Researcher Award Finalist, Genetics Society of America
2022 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2021 Honorable mention, Next Generation Faculty Symposium, Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF
2021 Presentation award, Canadian Fungal Research Network and Great Lakes Mycology Conference
2021 Graduate Research Excellence Award in Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
2021 Smriti Bardhan Scholarship, Vanderbilt University
2021 Registration award, Science Talk ‘21
2020 Favorite Artist Award, Catalyst: A Virtual Sci-Art Exhibition
2020 Oral presentation award, SACNAS – The National Diversity in STEM Virtual Conference
2020 Registration scholarship, SACNAS – The National Diversity in STEM Virtual Conference
2020 Best Talk Honorable mention, Canadian Fungal Research Network Meeting
2020 Trainee-of-the-Year, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation
2019 Gilliam Predoctoral Fellowship, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2019 Ann Bernard Martin Award for Excellence in Graduate Research, Vanderbilt University
2019 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health
2019 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, Ford Foundation
2019 Graduate student travel grant, Vanderbilt University
2019 Curb Center Fellow, ArtLab, Vanderbilt University
Select Invited Talks
2022 Yeast Genetics Meeting, Genetics Society of America
2022 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Finalists Meeting, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2022 Molecular mycology meeting, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
2022 Evolution, Am. Soc. of Naturalists, Soc. for the Study of Evo., and the Soc. of Sys. Biologists, Cleveland, OH (declined due to scheduling conflict)
2022 James F. Crow Early Career Researcher Award Finalist, Genetics Society of America
2022 Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University
2022 31st Fungal Genetics Conference at Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA
2021 CanFunNet and Great Lakes Mycology Conference
2021 Sandler Fellows Seminar, University of California, San Francisco
2021 Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University
2021 Medical Mycology Trainee Seminar Series, University of Utah (Link)
2021 Mycology Graduate Student Organization, University of Georgia
2021 MicroSeminar, International Society for Microbial Ecology (Link)
2021 Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering, Young Researchers Conference
2021 Andrew Murray Lab seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge
2020 Evan Eichler Lab seminar, University of Washington, Seattle
2020 Genetics Society of America, Science in a Snapshot Seminar Series
2020 Nicole King Lab seminar, University of California Berkeley
2020 The National Diversity in STEM Conference, SACNAS
2020 Canadian Fungal Research Network Meeting
2020 Graduate trainee-of-the-year talk, Vanderbilt University, VI4, Annual Symposium
2020 Day of Wond’ry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Select Service
2020-Pres. Founder and Chief Officer, SciArt with Purpose, https://jlsteenwyk.com/sciart.html
2019-Pres. Co-chair, Communication and Outreach Subcommittee, Genetics Society of America
2019-Pres. Inclusion Coordinator, The Evolutionary Studies Initiative at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2019-Pres. Graphic Illustrator, The Evolutionary Studies Initiative at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2017-Pres. Educational outreach booth design and execution, MEGAMicrobe, Nashville, TN
2017-Pres. Member, Graduate Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2017-Pres. Judge, Middle Tennessee Science and Engineering Fair, Belmont University, Nashville, TN
2018-2021 Volunteer Deputy, American Society of Microbiology Vanderbilt University Chapter, Nashville, TN
2017-2021 Communications chair, Inclusivity in Biosciences Association, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2019-2020 President, Inclusivity in Biosciences Association, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2019-2020 Co-chair, MEGAMicrobe, Vanderbilt Institute for Infections, Immunology and Inflammation, Nashville, TN
2018-2019 Vice President, Inclusivity in Biosciences Association, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN