Harry Dailey, Duncan Krause and Rob Maier become new AAAS Fellows.

Congratulations to our new AAAS Fellows: Harry Dailey, Duncan Krause and Rob Maier! Thanks to Tim Hoover and Larry Shimkets for preparing these nominations. Harry A. Dailey Jr., Professor of Microbiology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, is director of the UGA Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute. He received this honor for distinguished contributions to the field of heme biosynthesis, a compound essential for growth of all living organisms, including many bacteria, plants and animals. His work has also had particular importance in relation to a group of genetic disorders known as porphyrias. http://www.uga.edu/mib/people/dailey.htm

Duncan C. Krause is Professor of Microbiology and Director of the UGA Faculty of Infectious Diseases. Krause is honored for his distinguished contributions to the field of microbiology, particularly in the area of cell biology and in furthering the understanding of Mycoplasma, the bacterium that causes bronchitis and “walking” pneumonia. http://www.uga.edu/mib/people/krause.htm

Robert J. Maier, Professor of Microbiology and Georgia Research Alliance Ramsey Eminent Scholar of Microbial Physiology, received this honor for distinguished contributions in the field of microbiology, especially the processes that bacteria use to convert nitrogen into ammonia, metabolize hydrogen and sequester and store nickel. These processes are of exceptional importance in the infectivity of some bacterial pathogens. http://www.uga.edu/mib/people/maier.htm

Also honored this year are our adjunct professors Mary Ann Moran and Tim Hollibaugh! Fellowship in the AAAS recognizes distinguished accomplishments in science and is well deserved by all of our awardees.

James T. Hollibaugh, Professor of Marine Sciences iss honored for distinguished contributions to microbial ecology and the role of bacteria in the cycling of chemicals, especially nitrogen, arsenic and selenium, between the living and non-living parts of an ecosystem. http://www.marsci.uga.edu/directory/jthollibaugh.htm

Mary Ann Moran, Distinguished Research Professor, took the honor for distinguished contributions to microbial ecology and the use of genome science to understand the role of marine bacteria in the global cycling of nutrients. http://www.marsci.uga.edu/directory/mmoran.htm

Revised from UGA Public Affairs News Bureau, Sam Fahmy