Awards

BEAD/MARL received three EPA Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA); the first one in 2005, second one in 2007, and third one in 2010.

1. The 2005 Scientific and Technological Achievement Award (STAA) was for “creating the OPP Microarray Research Laboratory and research supporting the Antimicrobial Testing Program of the Office of Pesticide Programs.”
2. MARL was the winner of the “2007 Scientific and Technological Achievement Award (STAA) Competition” for the research publications: "Global Transcriptome Analysis of Staphylococcus aureus Response to Hydrogen Peroxide", “Global Transcriptome Analysis of Staphylococcus aureus to Peracetic Acid”, and “The Microarray Analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Reveals Induction of Pyocin in Response to Hydrogen Peroxide”. Please see:
   • Global Transcriptome Analysis of Staphylococcus aureus Response
     to Hydrogen Peroxide
   • Toxicogenomic Response of Staphylococcus aureus to Peracetic Acid
   • Microarray analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa reveals induction of pyocin genes in response to hydrogen peroxide
3. MARL was the winner of the "2010 Science and Technological Achievement Award (STAA) Competition" for the Research Publications. BEAD/MARL has received three EPA Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards (STAA); the first one in 2005, second one  in 2007, and third one in 2010. The Award winning articles are: "Microarray Analysis of Mycobacterium bovis BCG Revealed Induction of Iron Acquisitions Related Genes in Response to Hydrogen peroxide" Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T). Published November 7th, 2009; "Global Transcriptome Analysis of the Mycobacterium bovis BCG Response to Sodium hypochlorite,"Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (AMB) Published on September 27th, 2009; and "Global Transcriptomic Response ofPseudomonas aeruginosa to Chlorhexidine diacetate," Environmental Science and Technology Journal (ES&T). Published on September 10th, 2009. For more information please see http://epa.gov/ncer/staa/annual/2010/2010level2.html Publications are available at http://www.marl.umd.edu/publications/index.html or http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/labs/microarray_lab.htm
   

For additional information about Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards (STAA) please visit:

http://epa.gov/ncer/staa/annual/2007/2007level2.html

http://epa.gov/ncer/staa/about_staa.html

Last modified: 03/03/2010