{"id":4068,"date":"2018-03-27T10:44:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T14:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/?page_id=4068"},"modified":"2018-03-27T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T15:07:49","slug":"2017-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/news\/2017-news\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>JANUARY\/FEBRUARY\/MARCH<\/h2>\n<h2>2017 Microbiology Trainee Travel Award Winners<\/h2>\n<p>Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 Microbiology Trainee Travel Awards!<\/p>\n<p><strong>1<sup>st<\/sup> place:\u00a0Dequina Nicholas<\/strong> (postdoctoral fellow \u2013 Nikolajczyk lab) will be attending the American Associate of Immunologists meeting in Washington, DC, from May 12-16, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2<sup>nd<\/sup> place: Stephanie D\u2019Souza<\/strong> (graduate student \u2013 Kepler lab( will be attending the Gordon Research Seminar: Viruses and Cells in Lucca, Italy, from May 13-19, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2<sup>nd<\/sup> place:\u00a0 Ian Francis<\/strong> (graduate student \u2013 Wetzler lab) will be attending the Second International Convention Immunovaccipharma and Vaccipharma 2017 meeting in Varadero, Cuba, from June 25-29, 2017.<\/p>\n<h2>APRIL\/MAY\/JUNE<\/h2>\n<h2>Ludy Registre is the 2018 Corwin Award Winner<\/h2>\n<p><span>Congratulations to\u00a0<strong>Ludy Registre<\/strong><\/span><span>, the 2017 Corwin Award recipient. The Corwin Award recognizes a student who exemplifies the characteristics of an outstanding departmental \u201ccitizen.\u201d Values of collegiality, scientific integrity, commitment to scientific endeavor, and active participation in departmental activities are all components taken into account when the selection of the Corwin Award recipient is made. These values best epitomize the contributions of Dr. Larry Corwin, a former member of the Microbiology Department for whom the award is named.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>2017 Russek Award Winners<\/h2>\n<p>We are delighted to announce the Microbiology Graduate Students who have won 2017 Russek Student Achievement Awards.\u00a0 Congratulations to:<\/p>\n<p>1<sup>st<\/sup><span>\u00a0<\/span>Prize\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 Ludy Registre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/people\/faculty\/manish-sagar-m-d\/\">Sagar Lab<\/a>)<br \/>\n2<sup>nd<\/sup><span>\u00a0<\/span>Prize \u2013\u00a0Stephanie D&#8217;Souza (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/people\/faculty\/thomas-b-kepler-ph-d\/\">Kepler Lab)<br \/>\n<\/a>Honorable Mention &#8211; Matthew Gagne (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/people\/faculty\/lee-m-wetzler-md\/\">Wetzler Lab<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please note that the 23<sup>r<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\"><sup>d<\/sup>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>Annual<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/students\/phd\/russek-student-achievement-day-2016\/\">Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>will be held on Friday, April 21, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JANUARY\/FEBRUARY\/MARCH 2017 Microbiology Trainee Travel Award Winners Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 Microbiology Trainee Travel Awards! 1st place:\u00a0Dequina Nicholas (postdoctoral fellow \u2013 Nikolajczyk lab) will be attending the American Associate of Immunologists meeting in Washington, DC, from May 12-16, 2017. 2nd place: Stephanie D\u2019Souza (graduate student \u2013 Kepler lab( will be attending the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":929,"featured_media":0,"parent":2033,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4079,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4068\/revisions\/4079"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}