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.