UBC professor wins ASM Lifetime Achievement Award

Professor Emeritus Julian Davies, UBC Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, has won the 2013 American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Lifetime Achievement Award for his pioneering work on antimicrobials and his leadership and service to the field of microbiology. He founded TerraGen Diversity, one of the first environmental DNA metagenomic start-ups. Since retiring in 1997, he continues to teach and run a laboratory in the Life Sciences Institute at UBC where his research focuses on the roles of small molecules in bacterial community signaling. For more details, click here.