CCM Student Award/Symposium competition is one of the three Top Category awards at the Canadian Society of Microbiologists annual conference. Students submit a paper for approval and if accepted can compete in a Symposium which takes place over two afternoons.

Congratulations from all of us to these meritorious young scientists and to their respective mentors.

Christine Ritlop  was the winner of the CCM Poster AWARD She works in the Lab. of Prof. Benoit Cousineau at McGill University (Photo from: McGill University web site)

Gheyath Nasrallah  was the winner of the CCM Symposium Award for his paper “Investigation of Virulence Functions of the Legionella pneumophila Chaperonin (HtpB)”.   Photo: G Nasrallah (left) is shown with his thesis director Professor Rafael A Garduño at Dalhousie University.