Year |
Award/Honors |
2010 |
Finalist, FIU President's Council Outstanding Faculty Award in recognition of sustained excellence in Teaching, Research and Service |
2010 |
Panel Discussion Member, "Sequentia", November 10th, Target Wednesday After Hours, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University.
Announcing the Genetic Sequence results from the participatory installation with Xavier Cortada. |
2010 - |
FIU Provost’s Chair’s Advisory Council |
2010 - |
Member, Board of Advisors, International Forensic Science Research Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Florida International University |
07/2010 |
Session Chair, 11th Asian-Pacific Conference on Transcription (ACT-11), July 1st – 5th, Okinawa, Japan |
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. |