{"id":45,"date":"2018-11-06T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cafnrfaculty.missouri.edu\/sutovskylab\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:47:07","slug":"staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cafnrfaculty.missouri.edu\/sutovskylab\/staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Sutovsky, PhD, Dr.h.c.<\/a> – The Sperm Guy – AAAS Fellow -SSR Fellow<\/p>\n

Miriam Sutovsky, MS<\/a> – Lab Manager, Senior Research Assistant<\/p>\n

Michal Zigo, PhD<\/a> – Assistant Research Professor<\/p>\n

Tasrin Sultana<\/a> – Postdoctoral Fellow<\/p>\n

Erica Mantle – Graduate Student – M.S. Candidate<\/a><\/p>\n

Lily Laskowski<\/a> – Undergraduate Research Assistant<\/p>\n

Katerina Grygarova – Visiting Scholar<\/a><\/p>\n

Karl Kerns<\/a> – Adjunct Assistant Professor<\/p>\n

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Lab Mascot:<\/h4>\n

Iggy Rufus Stastny<\/a> AKC English Cream Golden Retriever<\/p>\n

Recent Trainee Awards:<\/h4>\n

2024: <\/strong>29th<\/sup> Symposium of Biology and Immunology of Reproduction, Liblice, Czechia, Best Trainee Oral Presentation award to graduate student Natalie Zelenkova.<\/p>\n

2024: <\/strong>29th<\/sup> Symposium of Biology and Immunology of Reproduction, Liblice, Czechia, Trainee Poster Presentation 3rd<\/sup> place award to graduate student Barbora Klusackova.<\/p>\n

2024: <\/strong>University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Matching Assistantship (CAFNR C-MAP) to graduate student Chloe Gardner.<\/p>\n

2024: <\/strong>University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR) Research Symposium poster award to postdoctoral fellow Filip Tirpak (1st<\/sup> place, postdoc category).<\/p>\n

2024: <\/strong>University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR) Research Symposium poster award to graduate student Erica Mantle (1st<\/sup> place, grad. student category).<\/p>\n

2024:<\/strong> University of Missouri Postdoctoral Association (MUPA) SSR meeting travel award to Filip Tirpak.<\/p>\n

2024:<\/strong> TOP10 selection in the 2024 SSR REPROBIO Art Contest awarded to postdoc Filip Tirpak.<\/p>\n

2024: <\/strong>USDA-NIFA-AFRI Merit Award (SSR meeting 2024, Dublin, IRL) to postdoc Lauren Hamilton.<\/p>\n

2024: <\/strong>Biology of Reproduction journal Top Peer Reviewer recognition of postdoc Lauren Hamilton.<\/p>\n

2024: <\/strong>Research Assistant Professor Michal Zigo selected for competitive training course on Expression, Purification & Analysis of Proteins & Protein Complexes at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories.<\/p>\n

2023: <\/strong>MU CAFNR Research Symposium poster award to postdoctoral fellow Filip Tirpak.<\/p>\n

2023: <\/strong>Burroughs Wellcome Travel Fellowships for Underrepresented Minority Trainees and Junior Faculty awarded by SSR Diversity Committee to graduate student Alexis Jones.<\/p>\n

2022: <\/strong>MU Postdoctoral Research Grant Program award to Lauren Hamilton, postdoctoral fellow.<\/p>\n

2022: <\/strong>SSR Travel Award to Lauren Hamilton, postdoctoral fellow, to present at the 55th<\/sup> Society for the Study of Reproduction Meeting in Spokane WA, July 26-29, 2022.<\/p>\n

2022: <\/strong>SSR Travel Award to Edgard Diaz Miranda, visiting scholar\/graduate student, to present at the 55th<\/sup> Society for the Study of Reproduction Meeting in Spokane WA, July 26-29, 2022.<\/p>\n

2022: <\/strong>USDA-NIFA-AFRI Merit Award (SSR meeting 2022, Spokane, WA) to grad. student Alexis Jones.<\/p>\n

2021: <\/strong>Burroughs Wellcome Travel Fellowships for Underrepresented Minority Trainees and Junior Faculty awarded by SSR Diversity Committee to graduate student Alexis Jones.<\/p>\n

2021: <\/strong>George Washington Carver Graduate Fellowship to graduate student Alexis Jones.<\/p>\n

2021: <\/strong>Preparing Tomorrow\u2019s Leaders for Science scholarship to graduate student Dalen Zuidema.<\/p>\n

2021: <\/strong>Laura Nahm Outstanding Senior in Biological Sciences Award to undergraduate research assistant Meghan Lawlor<\/p>\n

2021: <\/strong>Lalor Foundation Postdoctoral fellowship to Lauren Hamilton.<\/p>\n

2021: <\/strong>CAFNR Dissertation Research Improvement Grant award to graduate student Dalen Zuidema.<\/p>\n

2020: <\/strong>H. A. Herman Memorial A. I. Industry Scholarship to graduate student Dalen Zuidema.<\/p>\n

2020: <\/strong>University of Missouri CAFNR Undergraduate Research Internship to undergraduate research assistant Betsy Pascoe.<\/p>\n

2020: <\/strong>First place in postdoctoral poster competition to Dr. Karl Kerns, at SSR Virtual 2020.<\/p>\n

2020: <\/strong>USDA-NIFA-AFRI Merit Award (SSR meeting 2020) to Dr. Karl Kerns, also a finalist in SSR 2020 virtual trainee poster competition<\/p>\n

2020: <\/strong>University of Missouri Distinguished Dissertation Award to Dr. Karl Kerns.<\/p>\n

2020<\/strong> University of Missouri Artifacts Award to undergraduate researcher Grace Wiley for Day at The Capitol research abstract and publication in the\u00a0Artifacts<\/em>\u00a0student journal, special Summer 2020 Edition.<\/p>\n

2020: <\/strong>Selection of undergraduate researcher Grace Wiley for presentation at the 2020 Undergraduate Research Day\u00a0at the Capitol, Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City MO, April 2, 2020<\/p>\n

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