From The Labs

Welcome back and congratulations to our graduate student Angela Mitchell!

Work on syphilis vaccine development presented by Cameron lab members, Alloysius Gomez and Simon Houston at the 2023 STI & HIV World Congress was featured in the NIAID article below.  NIAID-Supported Research is Advancing the Response to Surging Syphilis Rates: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/niaid-syphilis-research?utm_campaign=+57502051&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=

Our graduate student Sean Waugh was one of the winners for best oral presentation by early career scholars at the 2023 STI&HIV World Congress.

Congratulations to our graduate student Sean Waugh who received the Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral (CGS D) award by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

CBC article and radio interview – https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/congenital-syphilis-babies-canada-1.6777406

Sean Waugh (Cameron lab) and Dominique Gatti (Reynolds lab) were the winners for the talks at the 2023 UVIC BCMB Graduate Research Symposium.

Angela Mitchell won top presenter in the department of Biochemistry and Microbiology (BCMB) at the 2023 UVIC Science Honours Fest.

Link to CNN article: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/01/health/congenital-syphilis-alarming-rise

Researchers discuss many reasons for this comeback. Link to article – https://undark.org/2023/02/20/science-falls-behind-as-syphilis-stages-another-comeback/