From 2019-2021, the Agriculture & Food Systems Institute funded research that builds local knowledge and establishes baseline data to support comparative assessments for agricultural biotechnology through our Biosafety Research in Bangladesh Grants Program (BRBGP), supported by funding from the USAID Mission in Bangladesh. As a capstone, BRBGP awardees received funding and logistical support for travel to St. Louis, Missouri, to attend this year's symposium of the International Society for Biosafety Research (ISBR 2023). We would like to congratulate Mohammad Tofazzal Hossain Howlader of Bangladesh Agricultural University, whose poster presentation, "Diversity of Arthropods Under the Cotton Ecosystem in Bangladesh," won first prize at the ISBR 2023 Poster Competition, along with Abu Shamim Mohammad Nahiyan of ACI Limited, whose contribution, "Fertilizer Management and Agronomic Practices in Bangladesh: A Baseline Study for GE Potato Biosafety Assessment," came in second place. | 
