Lab member awards, fellowships, and honors

Holehouse lab members have been awarded over 50 honors, fellowships, and awards over the last five years.

2026 (10)

Aidan Flynn (graduate student) – 2026 WALLI Seed Grant Recipient

Sarah Hoffmann-Weitsman (graduate student) – T32 Cancer Biology Predoctoral Fellowship

Vincent Nicholson (graduate student) – 2026 Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Communications Award

Jeff Lotthammer (graduate student) – 2026 Intrinsically Disordered Protein Gordon Research Conference (IDP-GRC) Best Poster Award

Ramiz Somjee (graduate student) – NEI F30 Predoctoral Fellowship

Ramiz Somjee (graduate student) – 2026 Winston Fellow Award (Graduate Student Category)

Nick Razo (graduate student) – Biophysical Society Student Research Achievement Award (Spring 2026)

Jeff Lotthammer (graduate student) – 2026 Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Fellow

Emery Usher (postdoctoral fellow) – University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (UC-based postdoc-to-faculty transition award).

Vincent Nicholson (graduate student) – NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

2025 (7)

Ramiz Somjee (graduate student) – Rosenbaum Research Award for Best Poster; 2025 Division of Vision Sciences retreat

Borna Novak (graduate student) – Biophysical Society Student Research Achievement Award (Spring 2025)

Borna Novak (graduate student) – Biophysical Society Travel Award (Spring 2025)

Stephen Plassmeyer (graduate student) – Best talk; 2025 BBSB Program Retreat (Fall 2025)

Stephen Plassmeyer (graduate student) – Student representative on Washington University's doctoral council

Sarah Hoffmann-Weitsman (graduate student) – Lucille P. Markey Special Emphasis Pathway in Human Pathobiology Fellow

Vincent Nicholson (graduate student) – NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (Spring 2025)

2024 (17)

Aidan Flynn (graduate student) – 2024 WALLI Seed Grant Recipient

Nick Razo (graduate student) – Lucille P. Markey Special Emphasis Pathway in Human Pathobiology Fellow

Ramiz Somjee (graduate student) – T32 Vision Sciences Predoctoral Fellowship

Jackie Pelham (Cori Fellow) – Chaired the 2024 IDP GRC

Jhullian Alston (former graduate student) – Chaired the 2024 IDP GRC

Jeff Lotthammer (graduate student) – 2024 Intrinsically Disordered Protein Gordon Research Conference (IDP-GRC) Best Poster Award

Jeff Lotthammer (graduate student) – Frontera Computational Sciences Fellowship (Spring 2024)

Aidan Flynn (graduate student) – 2024 Div. Biology and Biomedical Sciences Service and Commitment to St. Louis Award

Dan Griffith (graduate student) – Merck Innovation Cup [3rd place!] (Summer 2024)

Jeff Lotthammer (graduate student) – D.E. Shaw Research Fellowship (Spring 2024)

Emery Usher (postdoctoral fellow) – NIGMS F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship (Spring 2024)

Jeff Lotthammer (graduate student) – Biophysical Society Student Research Achievement Award (Spring 2024)

Aidan Flynn (graduate student) – Post-Course MBL Research Award (w/ Brangwynne lab at Princeton University)

Jeff Lotthammer (graduate student) – Biophysical Society Travel Award (Spring 2024)

Dan Griffith (graduate student) – MilliporeSigma Fellowship Award (Spring 2024)

Emery Usher (postdoctoral fellow) – Protein Folding Dynamics GRS chair (Spring 2024)

Freya Beinart (graduate student) – NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (Received spring 2024)

2023 (12)

Jeff Lotthammer (graduate student) – BMB Professional Development Award (Fall 2023)

Aidan Flynn (graduate student) – BMB Professional Development Award (Summer 2023)

Aidan Flynn (graduate student) – Student representative on Washington University's doctoral council

Aidan Flynn (graduate student) – Marine Biology Labs (MBL) Woods Hole Physiology Course Attendee (Summer 2023)

Jhullian Alston (graduate student) – Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Enrichment Program (Summer 2023)

Ryan Emenecker (postdoctoral fellow) – 2023 BMB Seed Grant Award (Summer 2023)

Garrett Ginell (graduate student) – 2023 BMB Seed Grant Award (Summer 2023)

Emery Usher (postdoctoral fellow) – Keck Postdoctoral Fellowship (Summer 2023)

Ryan Emenecker (postdoctoral fellow) – Life Sciences Research Foundation (LSRF) Postdoctoral Fellowship [finalist but unfunded] (Spring 2023)

Garrett Ginell (graduate student) – MilliporeSigma Fellowship Award (Spring 2023)

Jhullian Alston (graduate student) – Biophysical Society Student Research Achievement Award (Spring 2023)

Garrett Ginell (graduate student) – Breakout Ventures Venture Capital Fellowship (Spring 2023)

2022 (4)

Jhullian Alston (graduate student) – Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined) (Fall 2022)

Ryan Emenecker (postdoctoral fellow) – Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation (Summer 2022)

Jeff Lotthammer – NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (Spring 2022)

Ryan Emenecker (graduate student) – 2022 John E. Majors Award (Spring 2022)

2021 (3)

Jhullian Alston (graduate student) – NCI F99/F00 Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition (F99/K00) Award (Fall 2021)

Jhullian Alston (graduate student) – Marine Biology Labs (MBL) Woods Hole Physiology Course Attendee (Summer 2021)

Daniel Griffith (graduate student) – NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (Spring 2021)

2020 (1)

Jhullian Alston (graduate student) – MilliporeSigma Fellowship Award (Fall 2020)