The NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology’s Prize for Undergraduate Research in Quantitative Biology recognizes outstanding undergraduate research in quantitative biology. This year five finalists competed for the Prize for Undergraduate Research in Quantitative Biology at the 3rd Annual Conference on Quantitative Biology, November 19-21, 2020 hosted virtually. They each presented their work as a 10-minute video hosted on YouTube for conference attendees and judges and participated in an hour Discord chat on Friday, November 20, 2020. Awards were based on the content and presentation of their research projects. The winners are:
FIRST PLACE
SECOND PLACE
THIRD PLACE
Finalists also included,
Phillip Nicol, Harvard University, “Modeling cancer evolution as an interacting particle system”
Jack Toppen, Georgia Tech, “Efficient Agent-Based Modeling of Self-Organization within Pluripotent Stem Cell Colonies”
