Kudos to Mahulena Maruskova forwinning the “S. Edward Sulkin Award-honorable mention” for her oral presentation at the Texas Branch Meeting of the American Society forMicrobiology held at Sam Houston State University Nov 15-17^th 2007.The title of her presentation was “Infectivity analysis of Borreliaburgdorferi mutants in pH-regulated genesof lp54”. Mahulena is in her 3^rd year of CMB doctoral studies in the laboratory of Janakiram Seshu.

Kudos to Khalid Ali Syed forwinning the Sam Kaplan Award – 2^nd prize for the best posterpresented at Texas Branch Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology heldat Sam Houston State University Nov 15-17^th 2007. The title of hisposter was “Regulation of virulence genes by the Vibrio cholerae flagellar regulatory hierarchy”. Khalid is in his 5^thyear of CMB doctoral studies in the laboratory of Karl Klose.