Awards
The International Society for Extremophiles honors outstanding contributions to the field of research on extremophiles. Awards will be given to talented scientists who open up new frontiers in terms of basic and applied research. Eligible persons can be nominated by all ordinary members of the society and will be selected by a jury chaired by the ISE president. The award ceremony takes place during the biennial Extremophiles conferences.
Past ISE Award Winners
Lifetime Achievement
2010
Koki Horikoshi, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan
Mosé Rossi, Istituto di Biochimica delle Proteine, Naples, Italy
Poster Awards
2010
Maggie C.Y. Lau, The University of Hong Kong, PR China
Anna Perevalova, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Ileana Pérez-Rodríguez, Rutgers University, USA
Leanne Timpson, University College Dublin, Ireland
Nadine Winkelmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
ISE Grants
2010
Yuki Chan, Extremophiles Research Group, The University of Hong Kong, PR China
Kelly Kwan, California State University East Bay, USA
Lau Chui Maggie, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, PR China
Leanne Timpson, Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, University College Dublin, Ireland
Andrey Mardanov, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
2006
Kirsten Beck, Department of Biochemistry II, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Takashi Endoh, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Japan
Marc T. Facciotti, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Wa, USA
2004
Bonnie Chaban, Queens University, Kingston, Canada
Tony Collins, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Luis Gonçalves, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
Matthew Johnson, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Thomas Niederberger, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Biagio Pucci, Institute of Protein Biochemistry, Naples, Italy
2002
Sonja Albers, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Patrizia Contursi, Universita Federico II di Napoli, Naples, Italy
Tiago Faria, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
Masahiro Ito, Toyo University, Itakura-machi, Japan
Astrid Lingl, University of Munich, Munich, Germany