On November 2, 2019, Emily Quach attended the Northern California Branch American Society for Microbiology Fall meeting. She won 2nd place for presenting her poster.
On June 21, 2019, Dr. Guiton was awarded the CSUPERB New Investigator Award for the proposal, “How do Developmentally Regulated Glycolytic Enzymes Contribute to Toxoplasma Differentiation?”
On July 11-14, Binh attended the American Society of Parasitologists annual conference on held at The Double Tree by Hilton-Mayo Clinic Area in Rochester, MN. Binh gave a talk on “How does ROP23 contribute to Toxoplasma gondii virulence?” He also got to opportunity to meet nobel laureate William Campbell, who won the Nobel Prize in 2015 for discovering ivermectin, anti-parasitic drug used to treat river blindness and elephantiasis.