Dr. Mattie Pawlowic started her new position as a lecturer and principle investigator at the Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery University of Dundee. Mattie and her new lab are also part of a new Wellcome Trust Centre for Anti-Infectives Research. We wish Mattie and her students and postdocs all the best and much success in their research endeavors!

Boris received the William Trager Award for fundamental parasitology from Dr. Christine Petersen at the ASTMH meeting in Baltimore. Boris is grateful to ACMCIP for this honor and thanks his colleagues in an outside of the lab at PENN and UGA.

Adam won a best talk award at MPM 2017 in Woods Hole. This resulted in an invitation to also speak at this year's American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting in Baltimore. Adam will describe his work on a natural mouse model for cyptosporidiosis and the observations he has made so far in using mouse strains with a variety of genetically engineered immune defects. He also will serve as session chair.