Extramural
- NIH Individual NRSA Fellowship – (1F32HD055143-01) (2007-2008)
- NIH Training Grant (trainee) – UC Davis MIND Institute – Interdisciplinary Training Program for Autism Researchers (2005-2007)
- American Foundation for Aging Research Fellowship (2005)
- Reduced Fee Award: EMBO/58th Harden Conference-Telomeres and Genome Stability (2004)
- Travel Award: 13th North American Colloquium on Animal Cytogenetics & Gene Mapping (2003)
- Glenn/AFAR Scholarship for Research in the Biology of Aging (2003)
Intramural
- Kinsella Memorial Dissertation Prize, UC Davis (2006)
- Hart/Cole/Goss Summer Research Fellowship (2005, 2001)
- Austin Lyons Fellowship (2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005)
- Herbert Kraft Fellowship (2001-2002)
- Jastro Shields Research Award (2003)
- UC Davis and Humanities Graduate Research Award (2002)
- Phi Sigma Honor Society (2001)
- UC Davis Departmental Fellowship Awards and Research Assistantship (2000-2001)
- Sigma Xi Honor Society
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