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American Society for Microbiology honors Lauren Mashburn-Warren

Grant and Award Announcement

American Society for Microbiology

Washington, DC—May 28, 2008—A 2008 American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Raymond W. Sarber Award is being presented to Lauren Mashburn-Warren, Graduate Student, Ph.D. program in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin. This award recognizes students at the undergraduate and predoctoral levels for research excellence and potential.

This exceptional young scientist has already made an important contribution to microbiology through her research on Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an opportunistic pathogen that causes a wide variety of infections, particularly in patients who are immunosuppressed. In 2007, Ms. Mashburn-Warren was awarded the Transatlantic Environmental Biotechnology Fellowship by the United States-European Union Task Force on Biotechnology Research and spent six weeks at the Research Center Borstel in Germany, where she studied biophysical chemistry techniques in the lab of Dr. Klaus Brandeburg. She has served as the primary author on two research manuscripts, an invited review, and a book chapter, as well as co-authoring another manuscript.

Ms. Mashburn-Warren earned her B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Oklahoma. For the past four years, she has been a Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Dr. Marvin Whiteley, first at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and then at the University of Texas at Austin.

The Raymond W. Sarber Award will be presented during the 108th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), June 1 – June 5, 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts. ASM is the world's oldest and largest life science organization and has more than 43,000 members worldwide. ASM's mission is to advance the microbiological sciences and promote the use of scientific knowledge for improved health and economic and environmental well-being.

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