Expanding frontiers for microsporidia: a tribute to Professor Elizabeth U. Canning.
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It is an extreme pleasure and honor to have been selected to present the Founders Lecture in recognition of Professor Elizabeth U. Canning. The Society for Invertebrate Pathology Founders’ Lecture Honoree is an individual who is considered to have made such meritorious contributions to the science of Invertebrate Pathology that he/she has signiWcantly inXuenced the origin, direction, recognition and science of Invertebrate Pathology as a distinct discipline. Professor Canning is Wrst a special scientist and also a special person who has had a tremendous and long lasting impact on science in diverse areas, and we are here today to honor her for her many, many contributions to Invertebrate Pathology (Fig. 1). Excellence in research and teaching are found only rarely in the same individual and numerous former students have stated that there was no instructor at Imperial College who earned greater respect and aVection from the students. I had tremendous respect for Liz when I began preparing for this presentation and even more now that I have examined the full scope and breadth of her fabulous career in parasitology. Liz has been a long standing member of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology and an active member of the Division on Microsporidia. She has served as Chair of the Division and has been a regular participant at annual meeting as well as International colloquia. It took a bit of work but I was able to obtain this image from Dr. Wayne Brooks of Liz with some very recognizable colleagues at the 11th annual meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology and the International Colloquium on Invertebrate Pathology held in 1978 in Prague (Fig. 2). Late night discussions
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of invertebrate pathology
دوره 92 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006