Binayak Raj Pandey, a first-year PhD student in Microbiology student at Dr. Xiang's lab, was awarded third place for the poster presentation in the Iowa NSF EPSCoR Chemurgy 2.0 Symposium held on July 24, 2024. The poster's title was "Effective production of microbially-produced bacterial nanocellulose." Researchers from Iowa State University, The University of Iowa, The University of Northern Iowa, Dordt University, and Central College presented and participated in the symposium. Congratulations Binayak!