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Nicole Du­bilier re­ceives 2025 ASM D.C. White Award for In­ter­dis­cip­lin­ary Re­search

Sep 8, 2024

We con­grat­u­late our Dir­ector Prof. Dr. Nicole Du­bilier, who has been awar­ded the pres­ti­gi­ous Award for In­ter­dis­cip­lin­ary Re­search from the Amer­ican So­ci­ety for Mi­cro­bi­o­logy (ASM).

The ASM D.C. White Award for In­ter­dis­cip­lin­ary Re­search re­cog­nizes dis­tin­guished ac­com­plish­ments in in­ter­dis­cip­lin­ary re­search and ment­or­ing in mi­cro­bi­o­logy. This award hon­ors David C. White, who was known for his in­ter­dis­cip­lin­ary sci­entific ap­proach and for be­ing a ded­ic­ated and in­spir­ing mentor. Each year, the prize is awar­ded to a re­searcher with a dis­tin­guished re­cord of ac­com­plish­ments in in­ter­dis­cip­lin­ary mi­cro­bi­o­lo­gical re­search and ment­or­ing of young sci­entific tal­ent. This year, the awardee is Nicole Du­bilier, Dir­ector of the Max Planck In­sti­tute for Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy in Bre­men, Ger­many, and Head of the in­sti­tute's De­part­ment of Sym­bi­osis.

"It is a true honor to re­ceive this prize be­cause it is one of the few to re­cog­nize two con­tri­bu­tions to re­search. The first is for sci­entific achieve­ments, spe­cific­ally in­ter­dis­cip­lin­ary re­search, and I am grate­ful to the many past and cur­rent mem­bers of my lab for their in­valu­able ded­ic­a­tion and hard work. The second is for ment­or­ing, a part of be­ing a sci­ent­ist that I have found deeply re­ward­ing, so I feel par­tic­u­larly honored to have my ef­forts re­cog­nized by this prize.”, says Du­bilier.

Nicole Dubilier
Nicole Dubilier, awardee of the 2024 ASM Award for Environmental Research. (© Jan Vetter/Wissenschaftsreihe beim Göttinger Literaturherbst)

Nicole Du­bilier’s “ac­com­plish­ments in mi­cro­bi­o­logy are most de­serving of this re­cog­ni­tion!”, states Gladys Al­ex­an­dre, Chair of the Chair ASM Sub­com­mit­tee on Awards, in her let­ter to Du­bilier. “Con­grat­u­la­tions on re­ceiv­ing this sin­gu­lar honor! It is a dir­ect in­dic­a­tion of the re­gard in which your mi­cro­bi­o­logy col­leagues hold you.”, Al­ex­an­dre con­tin­ues. Nicole Du­bilier will be presen­ted the award at the ASM Mi­crobe 2025 meet­ing in Los Angeles, USA, in June 2025.

Dubilier's lab stud­ies sym­bi­oses between bac­teria and mar­ine in­ver­teb­rates from chemo­syn­thetic en­vir­on­ments such as deep-sea hy­dro­thermal vents and cold seeps, as well as shal­low-wa­ter coral reefs and seagrass mead­ows. Her group uses a wide ar­ray of meth­ods that range from deep-sea in situ tools to mo­lecu­lar, 'om­ic' and ima­ging ana­lyses to un­der­stand the di­versity, eco­logy and evol­u­tion of chemo­syn­thetic sym­bi­oses.

Du­bilier moved from the USA to Ger­many as a teen­ager and gained her PhD in Mar­ine Zo­ology at the Uni­versity of Ham­burg, Ger­many. After a two-year postdoc­toral fel­low­ship at Har­vard Uni­versity, she joined the Max Planck In­sti­tute for Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy in 1997. Du­bilier's re­search and teach­ing has been re­cog­nized with nu­mer­ous awards and hon­ors, and she is an Elec­ted Fel­low of sev­eral pres­ti­gi­ous sci­entific academies. She serves on many na­tional and in­ter­na­tional ad­vis­ory boards, sci­entific coun­cils and other com­mis­sions of trust, and is en­gaged in ad­van­cing gender equity in sci­ence.

The American Societa for Microbiology (ASM)

"Es­tab­lished in 1899, ASM is the home for mi­cro­bial sci­ent­ists from around the globe to con­nect, learn, dis­cover and pre­pare for the fu­ture.

ASM and its 30,000 mem­bers part­ner with global or­gan­iz­a­tions to solve the world’s most press­ing chal­lenges. We con­nect with mil­lions of ex­perts and har­ness their sci­ence to serve hu­man­ity. From cli­mate change, an­ti­mi­cro­bial res­ist­ance, in­dus­trial, ba­sic and ap­plied mi­cro­bi­o­logy, ASM is a leader in sci­entific pub­lish­ing, stands for open sci­ence and ad­voc­ates for evid­ence-based pub­lic policies."

(Text from the ASM Web­site)

https://asm.org/Academy/Academy-awards-prize-program

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Department of Symbiosis

Prof. Dr. Nicole Dubilier

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