Yan, Fabini, and co-authors, lead by Dr. Lee Katz and Dr. Cheryl Tarr of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), received two prestigious CDC awards in recognition of their paper entitled "Evolutionary dynamics of Vibrio cholerae O1 following a single-source introduction to Haiti," published in the journal mBio on July 2, 2013.
For their work, the group received the James H. Nakano Citation Award from the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) for one of the best papers of 2013 and a Charles C. Shepard Award nomination (Laboratory Science category) from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
The awards were accepted by members of the CDC group during the ceremony (pictured below).
Accepting the James H. Nakano Citation Award at the CDC (from left): Nakano's son, Lori Gladney, Lee Katz, Cheryl Tarr, Beth Bell (director of NCEZID), Maryann Turnsek, and Molly Freeman (photo by Lee Katz)