Byrnes Receives EC Outstanding Young Investigator Award

Durham, N.C. (May 2009) — Edmond Byrnes, a graduate student at Duke University Medical Center, has received the Eukaryotic Cell Outstanding Young Investigator Award for his presentation entitled: Evidence that the Vancouver Island Cryptococcus gattii outbreak has expanded into the United States Pacific NW. This award was given for the best poster presentation at the Third Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Advanced Lecture course, Human Fungal Pathogens, Molecular Mechanisms of Host-Pathogen Interaction and Virulence, which took place in La Colle sur Loup, France. Byrnes works in the laboratory of Joseph Heitman, MD PhD, in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology.

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