Li Receives ASM Best Poster Award

Durham, N.C. (October 2009) — Charles Li, an undergraduate student majoring in biology and chemistry at Duke University, has received the Best Poster Award for his presentation entitled, Investigation of the sex locus and construction of a mutant library of Mucor circinelloides, a human pathogenic zygomycete. This award is given for the best poster presentation at the North Carolina American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Branch meetings. Li works in the laboratory of Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD, and works directly with Soo Chan Lee, a senior post-doctoral fellow in the lab.
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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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