2011 Fall Semester Golden PIPETMAN® Award



Jeffrey Hall



Gilson® is proud to announce Jeffrey Hall as the 2011 Golden PIPETMAN® Award Winner!  Hall received his Bachelor of Science at Oregon State University in 2007 and is currently working on his thesis regarding staphylococcal genetics through the University of Minnesota Microbiology Immunology and Cancer Biology Program (MICaB). 

The Golden PIPETMAN is an award given to an outstanding graduate student in the MICaB Program through the University of Minnesota.  Each semester a student that shows great leadership skills and has contributed to the excellence of the MICaB program in the form of publications, outside funding or service is chosen.

The recipient receives a “golden” PIPETMAN trophy that is presented by the MICaB program, as well as a PIPETMAN® Neo Starter Kit that is donated by Gilson.  The PIPETMAN Neo Starter Kit contains three PIPETMAN® Neo pipettes, plus boxes of certified-quality PIPETMAN tips and useful accessories – great for someone starting post-graduate school.

“My lab currently uses Gilson PIPETMAN and they are sturdy equipment. I’m excited to have a brand new set to use to continue my research!” Hall stated.  “I appreciate Gilson continuing to support the Golden PIPETMAN Award...it is something the students look forward to being nominated for.  Plus everyone loves a new set of PIPETMAN.”

Gilson contributes to the Golden Pipetman® Award

The Golden Pipetman is an award given at the University of Minnesota to an outstanding microbiology, immunology and cancer biology (MICaB) graduate student each semester.

The student who receives this award shows great leadership skills and has contributed to the excellence of the MICaB program. The contribution can be in the form of publications, outside funding and service to the program.

The recipient of this award receives a golden Pipetman trophy given by the MICaB program, as well as Pipetman Starter kit that is donated by Gilson, Inc.

“The students do truly appreciate the kit and consider it an honor to receive the award,” Louise Shand, Program coordinator said.

Students are nominated for this award by fellow students or MICaB faculty. The recipient is chosen by the MICaB graduate committee members and past recipients of the Golden Pipetman award, who are still in the program. The recipient is announced at the MICaB student seminar series.

Gilson became involved with the Golden Pipetman Award at UMN in spring 2005, when a representative with Gilson in France, offered to send a kit each semester to the recipients of the Golden Pipetman Award.

“He was simply Googling and found the MICaB website,” Shand said. “He then contacted us with this great idea.”

The award started in fall 2001 as an idea from the Director of Graduate Studies at the time, Christopher Pennell. The objective was to recognize exceptional students for leadership, contributions to the program and publishing a paper in a high-level journal.