UCA grad student wins biology fellowship

Krishnapraveen Yadlapalli, a graduate student in UCA’s Department of Biology, won the Alan and Marian Kohn Fellowship awarded by the University of Washington’s Center for Cell Dynamics (CCD) at Friday Harbor Laboratories.

The fellowship, worth $2,000, was presented in recognition of Yadlapalli’s work on sensory detection and processing of water flow information. Yadlapalli was advised by UCA Biology associate professor James A. Murray.

The Center for Cell Dynamics (CCD) at Friday Harbor Laboratories is a National Center for Systems Biology sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), a division of the National Institute of Health (NIH).