The UMass team, (left to right) Emily Bechtold (Rich Lab), Aleksey Morozov (Rich Lab), Taylor Smart (PCCL), John Solitro (PCCL), Zachary Brother (PCCL), Nolan Fernandez (Rich Lab), have won the $5,000 award in seed funding at the Lyme Innovation Hackathon held on June 17–19 at the Microsoft Nerd Center in Cambridge, MA. The team presented one of the five winning proposals, entitled "High volume screening of plant extracts to develop pharmaceutical combination therapy to eradicate bacteria." In September they will present in more detail for additional funding.