The accomplishments of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers were highlighted as part of DOE’s EFRC PI Meeting held July 18-19, 2013 in Washington, DC. PARC postdoctoral researcher and Pakrasi lab member Michelle Liberton was chosen to receive an award for her oral presentation “Probing light harvesting and photosynthetic productivity in cyanobacteria” describing work with PARC collaborators studying light harvesting in cyanobacteria.