The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) annual meeting of members of the Integrated Microbial Biodiversity (IMB) Program was held in Whistler, British Columbia on May 14-17, 2013. As IMB Fellow, Yan could bring one student to the conference. Tania attended the conference with Yan this year, and she presented a poster entitled "Environmental multilocus sequence typing of natural Vibrio cholerae populations."