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From more than 12,000 applicants, Matthew Niederhuber (a GMB graduate student in Daniel McKay’s lab), was selected to receive a prestigious “3-year NSF Predoctoral Fellowship award”. Matt’s project will focus on how transcription factors switch enhancers on and off during development.