A number of participants in the 2015 Global Health & Infectious Disease Symposium and Conference on April 9 & 10 received awards for their outstanding work.

These included:

Trainee Oral Symposium Presentations

Best postdoctoral fellow talk
Rosanne Hertzberger, PhD, cWIDR, Washington University, for: “Degradation and Metabolism of Glycogen During Bacterial Vaginosis”

[side_car urls=”/events/global-health-infectious-disease-trainee-oral-symposium/,”]Best student talk
Priya Pal, MD/PhD Student, Molecular Microbiology, Washington University, for: “The Role of HRPII in Cerebral Malaria Pathogenesis”[/side_car]

Conference Posters

Category: Translational/Clinical Research

Best resident poster
“Prevalence of Risk Factors for Chronic Kidney Disease of Non-Traditional Causes in Southwestern Guatemala Hemodialysis Patients: A Descriptive Study”; authors: Laux, Timothy¹, Barnoya, Joaquin¹, Cipriano, Ever², Herrera, Erick², Lopez, Noemi¹, Sanchez, Vicente², Rothstein, Marcos¹, ¹Washington University in St. Louis and ²Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social

Best student posters; first place
“Integrated Management of Moderate and Severe Acute Malnutrition in Sierra Leone using RUTF”; authors: Nneka Molokwu, Lauren Singh, Elizabeth Cimo, Mark Manary, Washington University in St Louis

Best student posters; second place
“Assessment of  Air-borne Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in Dental Clinics”; authors: Ankita Bhalla, Arthur Frank, Drexel School of Public Health

Category: Basic Science Research

Best postdoctoral fellow posters; first place
“Ferritinophagy Modulates Uropathogenic E.coli Survival in Bladder Mucosa During a UTI” authors: Kyle A Bauckman and Indira Mysorekar, Washington University

Best postdoctoral fellow posters; second place
“AIDS Alters the Enteric Microbiome in HIV Infection”; authors: Cynthia Monaco¹, David Gootenberg², Guoyan Zhao¹, Musie Ghebremichael², Scott Handley¹, Megan Baldridge¹, Meaghan Flagg², Mark Seidner², Jason Norman¹, Brian Keller¹, Doug Kwon², and Herbert Virgin¹; ¹Washington University School of Medicine and ²Ragon Institute

Best postdoctoral fellow posters; third place
“Mycobacterial Mediators of Inducible Bronchial Associated Lymphoid Tissue (iBALT)”; authors: Oliver A. Prince¹, Suhas Gondi¹, Hongmei Jiao¹, Deepak Kaushal², Shabaana A. Khader¹, ¹Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine and ²Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University

[side_car urls=”/events/third-annual-global-health-infectious-disease-conference/,”]Best student poster; first place
“The Glucose Transporter PfHT1 is a Molecular Target for the Anti-Malarial Effect of the HIV Protease Inhibitor Lopinavir”; authors: Thomas E. Kraft, Christopher Armstrong, Monique Heitmeier, Audrey R. Odom and Paul W. Hruz, Department of Pediatrics, and Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine[/side_car]