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.


Kelly Wrighton
Colorado State University


Catherine Lozupone
University of Colorado


Gene Tyson
The University of Queensland


Ruth Ley
Cornell University


Victoria J. Orphan
California Institute of Technology


Marc Strous
Max Planck Institute

Forest Rohwer
San Diego State University


Phil Hugenholtz
DOE Joint Genome Institute


Ian Head
Newcastle University
The Tom Brock Awards Most innovative research by an early career scientist.


Glen D'souza
ETH-Zurich and Eawag


Aura Raulo
University of Oxford


Ulrike Pfreundt
ETH Zurich


Emilia Sogin
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology


Sebastian Lücker
Radboud University


Kenneth J. Locey
Indiana University


Jillian Waters
Cornell University


Jean-Baptiste Raina
AIMS


Yutaka Yawata
MIT


Michaela Salcher
University of Zurich
The David C. White Most Innovative Student Poster Award To stimulate and thank our students for innovative thinking.
David C. White homepage
David C. White homepage


Pieter Blom
Radboud University Nijmegen


Dominique Türkowsky
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ


Yuto Ueda
Hiroshima University


T. Ohbayashi
Hokkaido University


Tomohiro Tobino
University of Japan Tokyo

Friedrich Reinhard
University of Lausanne


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.


Kenneth Nealson
University of Southern California


Michael Wagner
University of Vienna


Sallie W. Chisholm
MIT


Nancy Moran
University of Texas Austin


Stephen J. Giovannoni
Oregon State University


Bo Barker Jørgensen
Aarhus University


Norman Pace
University of Colorado


Gijs Kuenen
TU Delft


Farooq Azam
University of California
The Bill Costerton Award For research that best involves new theories in microbial ecology and wider inter-disciplinary significance.

Madeleine Gundersen
Norwegian University of Science and Technology


Gilles Vismans
Utrecht University


Francois-Etienne Sylvain
Derome Laboratory


R. Rohwer
University of WInconsin


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.


Jizhong Zhou
University of Oklahoma


Christopher Lawson (rising star)
University of Toronto


Fangqiong Ling (rising star)
Washington University


Thomas Curtis
Newcastle University


Wen-Tso Liu
University of Illinois


Ameet Pinto (rising star)
Northeastern University


Katherine McMahon
University of Wisconsin


Lutgarde Raskin
University of Michigan


Holger Daims
University of Vienna


Mads Albertsen (rising star)
University of Aalborg