Year |
Award/Honors |
2009 |
Editorial Board, Journal of Medical Microbiology (a SGM Journal).
Associate Editor, BMC Microbiology
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2008 |
Session Chair, 10th Asian-Pacific Conference on Transcription (ACT-X), Jan 13th – 16th, Bangalore, India.
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2007 |
Requested to give Faculty Invocation at the 2007 Faculty Convocation at the Florida International University, October 5th, 2007, Miami, FL.
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2005 |
Session Chair, 9th Asian-Pacific Conference on Transcription (ACT-IX), Dec 12th – 15th, Taipei, Taiwan.
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2004 |
FIU – Excellence in Research Award (Carries a monetary value of $3,000).
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2003 |
Appointed as a member of American Society for Microbiology Committee on Personnel Planning for the period of 7/03 to 6/06.
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2003 |
ZIA Symposium Scholarship to participate at their 2003 Zia Symposium on Research Careers in Bioinformatics: An Emerging Challenge for Undergraduate Education. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. March 14th – 15th, 2003. |
2003 |
Invited to become a Member of The International Advisory Committee for 2003-2005. The XI International Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology, San Francisco, USA, July 24th – 29th.
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2003 |
Session Chair, 8th Asian Conference on Transcription (ACT-VIII), Bangkok, Thailand. Nov. 16th – 19th.
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2002 |
I was invited to attend an exclusive meeting on “Phage therapy – Potential and Challenges” held at The Banbury Center, Cold Spring harbor Laboratory, 13-15 November 2002.
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2002 |
Chair, Scientific Organizing Committee, 7th Asian Conference on Transcription. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. July 23rd – 27th, 2002 www.fiu.edu/~act_vii. (Check the website for comments from attendees)
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2000 |
Ranjit Bhagwan Singh Fellowship. Invited by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia to conduct a one-week workshop on “Bacteria Cell-to-Cell Communication” under the program of The Dr. Ranjit Bhagwan Singh Medical Research Fund on 17-20th October 2000, at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
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