Jorgensen Receives ASM Mary Poston Best Student Paper Award

Durham, N.C. (October 2009) — Ine Jorgensen, a graduate student in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Duke University, has received the Mary Poston Best Student Paper Award for her paper entitled, The Chamydial Protease CPAF Targets a Subset of Early Effector Proteins. The Mary Poston Award was established to recognize the best paper given by a student at meetings of the NC Branch of the ASM. Mary Poston was a longtime employee of Duke University and was held in high esteem both by her colleagues and by medical students. She contributed much to the NC Branch, including service as Branch Secretary-Treasurer from 1950 until her death in 1961. Many letters of appreciation have been written over the years by student recipients of the Mary Poston Award emphasizing the importance of the competition for the award as part of their graduate training.

Jorgensen works in the laboratory of Raphael Valdivia, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology.
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