From The Labs

Congratulations to all three of our honours students on their graduation. Pictured from left to right are Seoyoon Lee, Seraphina Lu, and Cassandra Popoff.

Angela Mitchell (Master’s student) received the Greig Cosier Memorial Scholarship and the Agnew Memorial Award. Sean Waugh (PhD candidate) received the Ray Hadfield Memorial Fellowship.

The Cameron laboratory was funded to develop a direct diagnostic test for infectious and congenital syphilis. Link to article: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-awards-will-support-innovation-syphilis-diagnostics

Angela Mitchell received the 2024 Island Women in Science and Technology Scholarship! This scholarship is for women studying STEM fields on Vancouver Island.

JAMA medical news article attached below:

Congratulations to our graduate student Sean Waugh for winning Best BCMB Graduate Student Paper Jan-Dec 2023! Link to paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1254342/full

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Link to article: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-02-13/cdc-syphilis-rate-among-pregnant-women-has-more-than-tripled

Link to article: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/4397785-call-the-mother-child-syphilis-crisis-what-it-is-a-public-health-emergency/ Image obtained from https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/stdfact-congenital-syphilis.htm#:~:text=Congenital%20syphilis%20(CS)%20is%20a,Learn%20more%20about%20syphilis.

Congratulations to our post-doctoral fellow Mara for receiving the STI CRC Developmental Research Project Award.