Service and Impact Award

Two researchers wearing safety glasses examine bacterial culture plates in a laboratory, with one pointing to colony growth on an agar plate held by the other.
Trey Sato (right) looks at samples of engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae with postdoctoral researcher Susana Calle-Castaneda in his lab at the Wisconsin Energy Institute.
Chelsea Mamott/Wisconsin Energy Institute

Established in 2025, the GLBRC Service and Impact Award recognizes GLBRC members who have demonstrated leadership or participation in community building opportunities. 

2026 recipient: Trey Sato

Trey Sato, a GLBRC co-investigator and staff scientist at UW–Madison, received the center’s Service and Impact award in recognition of numerous collaborations over nearly two decades with the center, his mentorship of students and early-career scientists, and for taking on interim leadership of the Experimental Fermentation Lab after the death of a colleague. 

 

Past recipients

2025: Kevin Myers
Myers, a bioinformatics scientist and lead of the computational biology group at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, is the first recipient of a new Service and Impact award for the support he provides fellow researchers. Myers and his team help other GLBRC scientists use computational tools to answer questions about microbes and microbial communities in support of the center’s mission to advance fuels and bio-products made from inedible plants.