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 | | Petes, Joklik, Heitman and Jinks-Robertson |
| National Academy of Medicine | | Joklik |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member | | Petes, HeitmanSue Jinks-Robertson, PhD |
| Association of American Physicians Member | | Heitman |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow | | Marchuk, Coyne, Tobin, Luftig, Petes Heitman, Mitchell, Keene, Cullen, Jinks-Robertson, Cardenas-Corona, Valdivia, Matsunami, McCusker, Sullivan, and Rawls |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation Fellow | | Heitman and Chi |
| American Academy of Microbiology Fellow | | Mitchell, Coyne, Keene, Joklik, Heitman, Petes, Cullen, Jinks-Robertson, Valdivia, Rawls and Harrell |
| Whitehead Scholar Award | | Valdivia, Coers,Silver, Ko, Tobin, Horner, David, Yan, Heaton, Smith, Scaglione and Lowe |
| Mallinckrodt Foundation Award | | Tobin |
| NIH New Innovator Award | | Tobin |
| Searle Scholar | | Tobin, David |
| Vallee Scholar Award | | Tobin |
| Beckman Young Investigator | | David |
| Alfred P. Sloan Research Award | | David |
| 10 Scientists to Watch in 2016 | | David |
| Hartwell Foundation Award | | David, Heaton, and Silver |
| Trice-Holland Scholars Award | | Silver, Marchuk, Keene, and Yan |
| The Burroughs Wellcome Fund | | Heitman, Coyne, Heaton, David, Valdivia, Chi, Coers, Horner |
| Pew Foundation | | Valdivia, Rawls, Keene |
| 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 | | Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD |
| Rhoda Benham Award from the Medical Mycological Society of the Americas | | Heitman |
| Billy Cooper Award from the Medical Mycology Society of the Americas | | Mitchell |
| Duke Research Mentoring Award for Basic Science Research | | Cullen |
| Research Mentoring Award for Basic Science Research (2013) | | Cullen |
| ASM Merck Irving Sigal Award | | Valdivia and Ko |
| Christina Fleischmann Award for Young Women Investigators | | Horner |
| Seymour & Vivian Milstein Young Investigator Award | | Horner |
| ASM Young Investigator Award | | Horner and Ko, Tobin, and Coers |
| 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 |
| Eli Lilly Molecular Biology Contact Award | | Cullen |
| Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award | | Cullen |
| University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Distinguished Alumni Award | | Cullen |
| Most cited AIDS researchers by Science (Heavy Hitters in AIDS, Vol.260, p.1262, 1993) | | Cullen |
| Appointed honorary position of Visiting Professor by the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London | | Cullen |
| Distinguished Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at Durham University, UK | | Cullen |
| Visiting Professorship by the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at the University of Warwick, UK | | Cullen |
| Listed as being in the top 1% of the world’s most “Highly Cited Researchers” by Thomson Reuters and Clarivate Analytics at Web of Science (2001-present) | | Cullen |
| James B. Duke Professors | | Cullen, Heitman, Sue Jinks-Robertson, PhD,Keene, Marchuk |
| Minnie Geller Professor | | Petes |
| Chair of Division F of the ASM | | Mitchell |
| Scholar for the Roche Foundation for Anemia Research | | Chi |
| President and Vice President of the Genetics Society of America | | Petes |
| Ruth and A. Morris Williams Faculty Research Prize from Duke University School of Medicine | | Tobin |
| Thomas Langord Lectureship Award from Duke University | | Tobin |
| Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal from the Genetics Society of America (2013) | | Petes |
| Ruth K. Broad Faculty Scholar in Neuroscience (2015) | | Silver |
| American Society for Virology | | Coyne |
| Mary Bernheim Distinguished Professor | | Jinks-Robertson |
| Cozzarelli Prize for best 2013 Biomedical Sciences Publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | | Coyne |
| American Heart Association Pennsylvania/Delaware Affiliate Excellence Award | | Coyne |
| American Heart Association Postdoctoral Research Fellowship | | Coyne |
| Postdoctoral Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) | | Coyne |
Editorial Positions
Faculty members in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology have served in the following editorial positions:
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| 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 |
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| Carolyn Coyne |
| 2009 - 2017 | Faculty Member, Faculty of 1000 (Virology) |
| 2010 - Present | Editorial Board, Journal of Virology |
| 2013 - Present | Editorial Board, Virology |
| 2014 - 2016 | Associate Editor, RNA viruses, PLoS Pathogens |
| 2015 - 2017 | Senior Editor, mSphere |
| 2015 - 2021 | Standing member, NIH Study Section, NIAID VIRA |
| 2015 - Present | Mini-Review Editor, Journal of Virology |
| 2015 - Present | Opinions Editor, PLoS Pathogens |
| 2017 - Present | Editorial Board, mBio |
| 2018 - Present | Board of Reviewing |
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| Bryan Cullen |
| 1990-1994 | Associate Editor, Cell |
| 1990-2007 | Editorial Board, AIDS |
| 1991 - Present | Editorial Board, AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses |
1994-2005
2006-Present | Associate Editor , Virology
Editorial Board, Virology |
| 1997-2001 | Editorial Board, Cell Growth & Differentiation |
1988 - 2002;
2005 - Present | Editorial Board, Journal of Virology |
| 2000 - Present | Editorial Board, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes |
| 2001-2006 | Associate Editor, Current Molecular Medicine |
| 2004 - Present | Editorial Board, RNA Biology |
| 2005 - 2014 | Editorial Board Member, Molecular Cell |
| 2005 - Present | Editorial Board, Future Virology |
| 2007 - 2016 | Editorial Board, Open Virology Journal |
| 2009 - Present | Associate Editor, PLoS Pathogens |
| 2009 - 2016 | Editorial Board, Journal of Virological Methods |
| 2011-present | Editorial Board, MicroRNA |
| 2018 - Present | Editoral Board, RNA |
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| Lawrence David |
| 2017 - Present | Board of Advisors, Genome Magazine |
| Fred Dietrich |
| 2011 - 2015 | Associate Editor, G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics |
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| 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 - Present | 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 - Present | F1000 Research, Editorial Board Member |
| 2012 - Present | Microbiology Spectrum, Associate Editor |
| 2012 - Present | Academic Editor, PeerJ |
| 2013 - 2015 | Eukaryotic Cell, Editorial Board |
| 2013 - Present | mBio, Board of Editors |
| 2014 - Present | PLOS Pathogens, Senior Pearls Editor |
| 2018 - present | Specialty Chief Editor, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Fungal Pathogenesis |
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| Stacy Horner |
| 2014 - 2018 | Academic Editor, PeerJ |
| 2015 - 2018 | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
| 2016 - Present | Editorial Board, Journal of Virology |
| 2016 - Present | Editorial Board, Virology |
| 2017- Present | Editorial Board, Journal of Biological Chemistry |
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| Sue Jinks-Robertson |
| 1993 - 1997 | Associate Editor, Genetics |
| 2008 - Present | Associate Editor, DNA Repair |
| 2012 - Present | Associate Editor, PLoS Genetics |
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| 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 |
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| Dennis Ko |
| 2013 - Present | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
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| Micah Luftig |
| 2009 - 2014 | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
| 2014 - Present | Editorial Board, Journal of Virology |
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| Douglas Marchuk |
| 2011 - Present | Associate Editor, Journal of Clinical Investigation |
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| Hiroaki Matsunami |
| 2006 - Present | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
| 2009 - Present | Editoral Board, Frontiers in Neurobiology: Neural Circuits |
| 2013 - Present | Academic Editor, PeerJ |
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| John McCusker |
| 2010 - 2015 | Editorial Board, Eukaryotic Cell |
| 2011 - Present | Associate Editor, G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics |
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| John Rawls |
| 2008 - Present | Associate Editor, Gut Microbes |
| 2012 - 2018 | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
| 2015 - Present | Editorial Board Member, mSystems |
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| Matt Scaglione |
| 2016 - Present | Editor, American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physicology |
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| 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 |
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| Beth Sullivan |
| 2006 - Present | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
| 2010 - 2013 | Associate Editor, Chromosome Research |
| 2010 - Present | Associate Editor, PLoS Genetics |
| 2012 - Present | Editorial Board Member, PeerJ |
| 2013 - 2019 | Executive Editor, Chromosome Research |
| 2020-Present | Co-Editor-in-Chief, Chromosome Research |
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| David Tobin |
| 2011 - Present | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
| 2015 - present | Monitoring Editor, Disease Models and Mechanisms |
| 2016 - present | Editorial Board, Infection and Immunity |
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| Raphael Valdivia |
| 2006 - 2013 | Academic Editor, PLoS One |
| 2007 - 2013 | Associate Editor, PLoS Pathogens |
| 2008 - Present | Member Faculty of 1000 |
| 2012 - Present | Consulting Editor, Journal of Clinical Investigation |
| 2014 - Present | Editorial Board, Journal of Bacteriology |
| 2014 - Present | Section Editor, PLoS Pathogens |
| 2015 - present | Editorial Board, Pathogens and Disease
Editorial Board, Infection and Immunity |
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| Dong Yan | |
| 2014 - present | Academic Editor, PeerJ |
| 2018 - present | Academic Editor, PLOS One |
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