The ISME Young Investigator Award Recognizes young scientists who have made significant contribution to microbial ecology.
Winners are selected through the Award Committee.
Winners are selected through the Award Committee.
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Kelly Wrighton
Colorado State University
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Catherine Lozupone
University of Colorado
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Gene Tyson
The University of Queensland
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Ruth Ley
Cornell University
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Victoria J. Orphan
California Institute of Technology
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Marc Strous
Max Planck Institute
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Forest Rohwer
San Diego State University
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Phil Hugenholtz
DOE Joint Genome Institute
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Ian Head
Newcastle University
The Tom Brock Awards Most innovative research by an early career scientist.
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Glen D'souza
ETH-Zurich and Eawag
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Aura Raulo
University of Oxford
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Ulrike Pfreundt
ETH Zurich
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Emilia Sogin
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
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Sebastian Lücker
Radboud University
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Kenneth J. Locey
Indiana University
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Jean-Baptiste Raina
AIMS
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Jillian Waters
Cornell University
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Yutaka Yawata
MIT
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Michaela Salcher
University of Zurich
The David C. White Most Innovative Student Poster Award To stimulate and thank our students for innovative thinking.
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Pieter Blom
Radboud University Nijmegen
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Dominique Türkowsky
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
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Yuto Ueda
Hiroshima University
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T. Ohbayashi
Hokkaido University
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Tomohiro Tobino
University of Japan Tokyo
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Friedrich Reinhard
University of Lausanne
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Yutaka Yawata
University of Tsukuba
Jim Tiedje Award In recognition for outstanding lifetime contribution to microbial ecology.
Winners are selected through the Award Committee.
Winners are selected through the Award Committee.
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Kenneth Nealson
University of Southern California
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Michael Wagner
University of Vienna
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Sallie W. Chisholm
MIT
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Nancy Moran
University of Texas Austin
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Stephen J. Giovannoni
Oregon State University
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Bo Barker Jørgensen
Aarhus University
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Norman Pace
University of Colorado
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Gijs Kuenen
TU Delft
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Farooq Azam
University of California
The Bill Costerton Award For research that best involves new theories in microbial ecology and wider inter-disciplinary significance.
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Madeleine Gundersen
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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Gilles Vismans
Utrecht University
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Francois-Etienne Sylvain
Derome Laboratory
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R. Rohwer
University of WInconsin
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Melissa Garren
MIT
ISME/IWA Bio Cluster Award To recognize and reward interdisciplinary research of unusual merit in the interface of microbial ecology and water/wastewater treatment.
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Jizhong Zhou
University of Oklahoma
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Christopher Lawson (rising star)
University of Toronto
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Fangqiong Ling (rising star)
Washington University
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Thomas Curtis
Newcastle University
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Wen-Tso Liu
University of Illinois
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Ameet Pinto (rising star)
Northeastern University
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Katherine McMahon
University of Wisconsin
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Mads Albertsen (rising star)
University of Aalborg
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Lutgarde Raskin
University of Michigan
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Holger Daims
University of Vienna