Awards

ISME presents three prestigious awards at the biennial symposia:

 

The Jim Tiedje Award 
in recognition for outstanding lifetime contribution to microbial ecology

The ISME Young Investigators Award
recognizes young scientists who have made significant contribution to microbial ecology

The David C. White Most Innovative Student Poster Award
to stimulate and thank our students for innovative thinking

 

Introduced for the first time at ISME14 in Copenhagen, we are very pleased to announce two new awards:
 

The Bill Costerton Award
for research that best involves new theories in microbial ecology and wider inter-disciplinary significance

The Tom Brock Awards
most innovative research by an early career scientist

 

Besides these awards, ISME also gives away Poster and Travel Awards to its members

 

Jim Tiedje 
Award

Young
Investigators 
Award

David C. White
Award

Bill Costerton
Award

Tom Brock 
Award

2012

Stephen Giovannoni
Oregon State University
USA

2012

Victoria Orphan
California Institute 
of technology
USA

2012

Tomohiro Tobino
University of Japan
Tokyo

2012

Melissa Garren
MIT 
USA

2012

Yutaka Yawata
USA
Michaela Salcher
Switzerland

2010

 

Bo BarkerJørgensen 
Århus University
Denmark

2010


Marc Strous
Max Planck Institure
Germany

2010
 



Friedrich Reinhard
University of Lausanne
Zwitserland
 

    

2008

 
Norman Pace
University of Colorado
Boulder, USA

2008

 
Forest Rohwer
San Diego
State University
USA

2008
 

Yutaka Yawata
University of Tsukuba
Japan

 

    

2006
 

Jim Tiedje Award 2006: Gijs Kuenen, Delft, The Netherlands
Gijs Kuenen
Tu Delft
The Netherlands

2006
 

Young Investigator Award 2006: Phil Hugenholtz, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
Phil Hugenholtz
DOE
Joint Genome Institute
USA
      

2004
 

Jim Tiedje Award 2004: Farooq Azam, La Jolla, CA, USA
Farooq Azam
University of California
USA

2004
 

Young Investigator Award 2004: Ian Head, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Ian Head
Newcastle University
UK