Gracielou Klinger, 2020 Reed Bioenergy Award Recipient

In honor of her significant accomplishments and contributions to the GLBRC, the 2020 recipient of the Jennifer L. Reed Bioenergy Science Award is Gracielou Klinger, GLBRC scientist and graduate student in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Chemistry departments at Michigan State University. Gracielou got her first taste of research in the GLBRC, as a summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013. She worked in the Experimental Fermentation Lab with Yaoping Zhang, who encouraged her to apply to graduate school at one of the GLBRC institutions. In 2014, Gracielou started research as a graduate student under the guidance of Eric Hegg and James E. Jackson at Michigan State University.
Read about what sparked her interest in biofuels research, her passion for science communication, and her journey from undergraduate researcher to graduate student in our profile of Gracielou: www.glbrc.org/...