Faculty members in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology have been well-recognized for their achievements.
| Award | Faculty |
|---|---|
| American Society for Microbiology Award for Basic Research (2019) | Heitman |
| American Society for Microbiology Award for Early Career Basic Research (2019) | Heaton |
| National Academy of Sciences Member (NAS) | |
| National Academy of Medicine (NAM) | Heitman |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member | |
| Association of American Physicians Member | Heitman |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow | |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation Fellow | |
| American Academy of Microbiology Fellow | |
| Whitehead Scholar Award | |
| Mallinckrodt Foundation Award | Tobin |
| NIH New Innovator Award | Tobin, Smith, Derbyshire |
| Searle Scholar | Tobin, David |
| Vallee Scholar Award | Tobin |
| Beckman Young Investigator | David |
| Alfred P. Sloan Research Award | David |
| 10 Scientists to Watch in 2016 | |
| Hartwell Foundation Award | |
| Trice-Holland Scholars Award | |
| The Burroughs Wellcome Fund | |
| Pew Foundation | |
| Squibb Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America | Heitman |
| AMGEN Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Heitman |
| MERIT award from the NIH/NIAID | Heitman |
| Duke Research Mentoring Award for Translational Research | Heitman |
| Duke Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring Award | Heitman |
| Stanley Korsmeyer Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation | Heitman |
| Distinguished Mycologist Award, Mycological Society of America | Heitman |
| Elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina | Heitman |
| Rhoda Benham Award from the Medical Mycological Society of the Americas | Heitman |
| Fellow and Co-Director, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research program, Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities | Heitman |
| Billy Cooper Award from the Medical Mycology Society of the Americas | Mitchell |
| ASM Merck Irving Sigal Award | Valdivia, Ko |
| ASM Young Investigator Award | |
| March of Dimes Basil O'Connor Scholar (2004-2006) | Sullivan |
| Board of the Genetics Society of America | Jinks-Robertson |
| Elected Treasurer and appointed to the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Cancer Institute | Jinks-Robertson |
| Honorary Member of the LA-and-Related-Proteins Society (LARP) | Keene |
| Creativity award from the National Science Foundation | Keene |
| Henry Kunkel Honorary Society | Keene |
| Arthritis Foundation’s Devil’s Bag Award | Keene |
| Executive Board for the International Epstein-Barr Virus Association | Luftig |
| Invited Priscilla Schaffer Memorial Lecturer at the International Herpesvirus workshop | Luftig |
| F1000 Prime Faculty Member | Luftig |
| James B. Duke Distinguished Professors | |
| Minnie Geller Professor | Petes |
| John Strohbehn Distinguished Professor | Lodge |
| Lifetime Achievement Award, Genetics Society of America (2022) | Petes |
| Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal from the Genetics Society of America (2013) | Petes |
| President and Vice President of the Genetics Society of America | Petes |
| Chair of Division F of the ASM | Mitchell |
| Scholar for the Roche Foundation for Anemia Research | Chi |
| Ruth and A. Morris Williams Faculty Research Prize from Duke University School of Medicine | Tobin, Heaton |
| Thomas Langord Lectureship Award from Duke University | Tobin, Matsunami |
| Ruth K. Broad Faculty Scholar in Neuroscience (2015) | Silver |
| Mary Bernheim Distinguished Professor | Jinks-Robertson |
| National Academy of Inventors Fellow | Lodge |
| Academy of Science, St. Louis, Trustee's Award | Lodge |
| G-POP Predoctoral Fellowship | |
| International Mammalian Genome Society Mary Lyon award for outstanding early/mid-career female investigator | Smith |
| American Society of Microbiology (ASM) for New Voices in Microbiology for Early Career Microbiologists | Smith |
| Azrieli Global Scholar of CIFAR Program Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities | Gusa |
| Cha Zuckerbery Diversity Leadership Award | David |
|
ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award (2018) |
Derbyshire |
| Derbyshire | |
| Derbyshire | |
| Schmidt Sciences Polymath Award (2024) | David |
| Fulbright Scholar | David |
| Balik Scientist by the Philippines’ Department of Science and Technology | David |
Editorial Positions
Faculty members in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology have served in the following editorial positions:
| Jen-Tsan Ashley Chi | |
| 2009 - Present | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
| 2017 - Present | Editor, BMC Medical Genomics Editor, Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases |
| Jörn Coers | |
| 2010 - Present | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
| 2017-2019 | Editorial Board, Infection & Immunity |
| 2018-Present | PLoS Pathogens Pearls Editor |
| 2018-Present | Pathogens and Disease co-editor in chief |
| Lawrence David | |
| 2017 - Present | Board of Advisors, Genome Magazine |
| Fred Dietrich | |
| 2011 - 2015 | Associate Editor, G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics |
| Joseph Heitman | |
| 2001 - 2010 | Associate Editor, Mycopathologia |
| 2001 - 2014 | Editor, Current Genetics |
| 2001 - Present | Associate Editor, Fungal Genetics and Biology |
| 2002 - 2012 | Editor, Eukaryotic Cell |
| 2006 - Present | Editorial Board, PLoS Biology |
| 2006 - Present | Editorial Board, Current Biology |
| 2006 - Present | Editorial Board, Cell Host & Microbe |
| 2007 - 2012 | Anti-Infective Agents in Medicinal Chemistry |
| 2008 - 2012 | Editorial Board, The Open Tropical Medicine Journal |
| 2008 - 2011 | Section Editor, PLoS Pathogens |
| 2009 - 2012 | Editorial Board, Virulence |
| 2010 - 2017 | Editorial Board, Journal of Molecular Medicine |
| 2011 - 2023 | Editorial Board, Fungal Biology Reviews |
| 2011 - Present | Editorial Board, PLoS Pathogens Pearls Editor |
| 2012 - 2017 | Associate Editor, Genetics |
| 2012 - Present | Associate Editor, PLoS Genetics |
| 2012 - 2015 | F1000 Research, Editorial Board Member |
| 2012 - 2020 | Microbiology Spectrum, Associate Editor |
| 2012 - 2022 | Academic Editor, PeerJ |
| 2013 - 2015 | Eukaryotic Cell, Editorial Board |
| 2013 - 2025 | mBio, Board of Editors |
| 2014 - Present | PLOS Pathogens, Senior Pearls Editor |
| 2018 - 2024 |
Specialty Chief Editor, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, |
| 2022 - 2027 | Editor, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews (MMBR) |
| 2020 - Present | Editor, Mycota (Springer) |
| Sue Jinks-Robertson | |
| 1993 - 1997 | Associate Editor, Genetics |
| 2008 - Present | Associate Editor, DNA Repair |
| 2012 - Present | Associate Editor, PLoS Genetics |
| Jack Keene | |
| 1983 - 2007 | Editorial Board, Virology |
| 1985 - 1995 | Editorial Board, Journal of Virology |
| 1991 - 2008 | Editorial Board, Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| 1992 - 2000 | Editor, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews |
| 1995 - 2002 | Editorial Board, Molecular Diversity |
| 2000 - 2005 | Editor-in-Chief, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews |
| 2001 - Present | Editorial Board, Nature Molecule Pages |
| 2003 - 2008 | Editorial Board, Journal of Biological Chemistry |
| 2005 - Present | Associate Editor, RNA Biology |
| 2008 - Present | Associate Editor, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIRES): RNA |
| Dennis Ko | |
| 2013 - Present | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
| Jennifer Lodge | |
| Present | Editorial Board, The Cell Surface |
| 2010 - 2015 | Editorial Board, Eukaryotic Cell |
| Present | Editorial Board, Frontiers in Microbiology |
| 2008 - 2011 | Editorial Board, Molecular Microbiology |
| Micah Luftig | |
| 2009 - 2014 | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
| 2014 - Present | Editorial Board, Journal of Virology |
| Douglas Marchuk | |
| 2011 - Present | Associate Editor, Journal of Clinical Investigation |
| Hiroaki Matsunami | |
| 2006 - Present | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
| 2009 - Present | Editoral Board, Frontiers in Neurobiology: Neural Circuits |
| 2013 - Present | Academic Editor, PeerJ |
| John Rawls | |
| 2008 - Present | Associate Editor, Gut Microbes |
| 2012 - 2018 | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
| 2015 - Present | Editorial Board Member, mSystems |
| Matt Scaglione | |
| 2016 - Present | Editor, American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physicology |
| Debra Silver | |
| 2010 - Present | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
| 2012 - Present | Editorial Board Member, PeerJ |
| 2018 - Present | Board Member Cajal Club |
| 2019 - Present | Editorial Board, Developmental Neuroscience |
| 2019 - Present | Editorial Board, Frontiers in Neuroscience |
| Clare Smith | |
| 2024-2026 | Editorial Board for Infection and Immunity |
| Beth Sullivan | |
| 2006 - 2021 | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
| 2010 - 2013 | Associate Editor, Chromosome Research |
| 2010 - Present | Associate Editor, PLoS Genetics |
| 2012 - 2021 | Editorial Board Member, PeerJ |
| 2013 - 2019 | Executive Editor, Chromosome Research |
| 2020 | Co-Editor-in-Chief, Chromosome Research |
| 2021 - Present | Editor-in-Chief, Chromosome Research |
| David Tobin | |
| 2011 - Present | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
| 2015 - Present | Monitoring Editor, Disease Models and Mechanisms |
| 2016 - Present | Editorial Board, Infection and Immunity |
| Dong Yan | |
| 2014 - Present | Academic Editor, PeerJ |
| 2018 - Present | Academic Editor, PLOS One |
| Emily Derbyshire | |
| 2018-Present | Editorial Advisory Board, ACS Infectious Diseases |
| Research Track Faculty | |
| Rajendra Upadhya, PhD | |
| 2023 - Present | Editor, PLOS One |