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 and Jinks-Robertson |
National Academy of Medicine | | Joklik |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member | | Petes, Heitman |
Association of American Physicians Member | | Heitman |
American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow | | Marchuk, 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,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, 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 |
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, 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 |
Mary Bernheim Distinguished Professor | | Jinks-Robertson |
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 |
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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