Congratulations to Dr. Charlotte Alster, who was awarded ESA’s Gene Likens Award for 2021. The Gene Likens Award recognizes work conducted by an early-career scientist (within five years of receiving a Ph.D.) for work conducted after the completion of graduate school. She won the award for her publication, Embracing a new paradigm for temperature sensitivity of soil microbes, published in Global Change Biology. Dr. Alster completed this work while she was a postdoc in Treseder Lab.