People: In a recent issue of the Journal of Immunology (2009; 183:4147-4149), Hélène Bour-Jordan and Jeffery A. Bluestone announced that the journal has added the 1987 Journal of Experimental Medicine paper (165: 302–319 [PDF format] and Commentary [PDF format]) by Marc Jenkins and Ronald Schwartz to its Pillars of Immunology series. The JEM paper is notable for opening the field of T cell anergy and costimulation. Dr. Jenkins is Associate Director of the Center for Immunology and a Distinguished McKnight Professor of Microbiology. Congratulations to David Masopust, Vaiva Vezys and former postdoc Chris Kristich - all recipients of NIH New Innovator Awards.
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Graduate student, Laura Okagaki, received two very prestigious awards for her poster at the 25th Fungal Genetics Conference last week: Genetics Society of America Poster Award. Only five of these awards are typically given each meeting (for the almost 700 posters presented) and include a cash award. Outstanding Young Investigator Award.
This award is presented by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and ten awards were presented. The award includes a certificate and a one-year subscription to Eukaryotic Cell. Laura's advisor, Dr. Kirsten Nielsen commented: "Both of these awards are highly competitive (open to both graduate students and post-docs) so to receive both of them is outstanding!" Dr. Leslie Schiff was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology and will be recognized for this honor at the 2009 ASM General Meeting. The Academy recognizes excellence, originality, and creativity in the microbiology sciences. Other departmental faculty in the Academy include Judith Berman, Patrick Cleary, Gary Dunny, Martin Dworkin, Russell Johnson, Mike Sadowsky and Patrick Schlievert. | 
