2009
“Salmonella as an emerging infection-watching evolution in action”
Stanley Falkow, Ph.D.,
Stanford University
2010
“An ode to diphtheria toxin”
John Collier, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
2011
“Expanding the ADP-Ribosyltransferase Paradigm”
Craig Roy, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
2012
“New concepts in host-pathogen interactions: Lessons from Listeria”
Pascal Cossart, Ph.D.
The Pasteur Institute
2013
“Bacterial manipulations of host protein stability are required for growth”
Michael Starnbach, Ph.D
Harvard Medical School
2014
“Microbial Community Behavior During Growth in Deep Tissue Sites”
Ralph Isberg, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Tufts University School of Medicine
2015
“Genome-wide fitness profiling Pseudomonas aeruginosa –
too many surprises, many questions and few answers”
Stephen Lory, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
2016
“How Listeria monocytogenes avoids, manipulates
and exploits host cell biological processes to promote its intracellular growth”
Daniel Portnoy, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
2017
“Role of the Microbiota in Asthma and Malnutrition”
B. Brett Finlay, OC, OBC, FRSC, FCAHS
Michael Smith Laboratories
University of British Columbia
2018
“Lessons for Tuberculosis Treatment from the Zebrafish”
Lalita Ramakrishnan, PhD
University of Cambridge
2019
“Vibrio cholerae in vivo biology: microbial antagonism, cGAS-like enzymes, and cholera toxin-mediated
remodeling of host metabolism”
John Mekalanos, PhD
Harvard Medical School
2020
“Beyond mutation: bacterial carcinogenesis through niche remodeling”
Nina Salama, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2021
“Respiratory mechanisms of Vibrio cholera during infection”
Victor DiRita, Phd
Michigan State University
2022
“Pathogen restriction and host specificity: lessons from the human pathogen Salmonella Typhi”
Jorge Galan, PhD, DVM
Yale University School of Medicine
2023
“Battles for gut resources and niches: how Salmonella induces superspreader hosts”
Denise M. Monack, Ph.D.
Standford University
2024
“Adapting to mucus- Akkermansia commensalism in the gut and its impact of host physiology”
Raphael H. Valdivia, Ph.D.
Duke University School of Medicine