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.