Bastidas Receives ASM Best Poster Award
Durham, N.C. (October 2008) — Robert Bastidas, a graduate student in the University Program in Genetics and Genomics and the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Duke University Medical Center, has received the Best Poster Award for his presentation entitled, Tor signaling regulates cell-cell adhesion in Candida albicans. This award is given for the best poster presentation at North Carolina American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Branch meetings. Bastidas works in the laboratory of Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD, and Maria Cardenas, PhD.

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The American Society for Microbiology is the oldest and largest single life science membership organization in the world. Membership has grown from 59 scientists in 1899 to more than 43,000 members today, with more than one third located outside the United States. The members represent 26 disciplines of microbiological specialization plus a division for microbiology educators.

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