Huang Pei, a student from the CAS Institute of Microbiology, received the Tony B. Academic Travel Award and was invited to give a speech titled “Investigation of anti-TB Drug Leads Potentials of Verrucosispora sp.—— Activate the cryptic gene clusters” at the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) Annual conference and exhibition in Washington, D.C., held from 7 to 11 February, 2015.
The Tony B. Academic Travel Award honors Tony Beugelsdijk of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, an Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) co-founder who passed away in August, 2009. Tony played a very inspirational and instrumental role in laboratory robotics and made significant contributions to ALA, the former Lab Automation conference and exhibition, and the scientific community as a whole. The initiators of the award want to remember him through a program that recognizes up-and-coming researchers who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in laboratory science and technology.
In 2015, SLAS globally honored 55 undergraduate students, graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and junior faculty members with SLAS Tony B. Academic Travel Awards. Recipients were determined by a panel of judges who conducted comprehensive evaluations of student abstract proposals and made selections based on scientific merit. Huang Pei was the only student selected from CAS.
