Nicole Dubilier

Nicole Dubilier is a marine microbiologist and director of the Symbiosis Department at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology since 2013 and a Professor of Microbial Symbioses at the University of Bremen.[1][2][3] She is a pioneer in ecological and evolutionary symbiotic relationships between sea animals and their microbial partners inhabiting environments that harbour low nutrient concentrations.[4] She was responsible for the discovery of a new form of symbiosis between two kinds of bacteria and the marine oligochaete Olavius algarvensis.

Career

In 1985, Dubilier obtained her degree in Zoology, Biochemistry and Microbiology and completed her Ph.D. in marine biology at the University of Hamburg with Olav Giere in 1992. During her graduate studies, she found herself dispassionate about her research, often wanting to quit, but her persistence propelled her to the finishline. In 1992, motivated to re-discover the excitement of her field, Dubilier attended a molecular biology summer course taught by Donald Manahan at University of Southern California.[5][6] Later, from 1993-1995, she experienced her first Post-doc with the guidance of Colleen Cavanaugh on hydrothermal vents chemosynthetic life forms. Two years later, she started her career at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (MPI-MM), first as a Postdoc studying the Evolution of bacterial symbiosis in gutless worms (1997-2001) and afterwards as the Coordinator of the MPI-MM International Research Program (2002-2017), Head of the Symbiosis Laboratory (2001-2017) and the Head of the Symbiosis Department (since 2013).[1][5][7] Dubilier has continued her work on symbiotic relationships within chemosynthetic living organisms, expanding her exploration of both shallow and deep-sea environments, ranging from seagrass to coastal sediments, through meta-omic approaches, e.g. metaproteomics and metagenomics. Her primary animal models constitute of shrimp, gutless-worms, nematodes, and ciliates.[8]

Awards and honors

2017 Co-Chair American Society Microbiology Microbe Conference.[9][10]

2014 German Research Foundation Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz prize.[10]

Since 2013 Elected member at the American Academy of Microbiology.[8]

2013 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Marine Microbiology Initiative Award.[11]

2009 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Applied and Environmental Microbiology chapter.[12][13]

Selected publications[14]
  • McFall-Ngai M., Hadfield M.G., Bosch T.C.G., Carey H.V., Domazet-Lošo T., Douglas A.D., Dubilier N., Eberl G., Fukami T., Gilbert S.F., Hentschel U., King N., Kjelleberg S., Knoll A.H., Kremer N., Mazmanian S.K., Metcalf J.L., Nealson K., Pierce N.E., Rawls J.F., Reid A., Ruby E.G., Rumpho M., Sanders JG., Tautz D., and Wernegreen J.J. (February 26, 2013). "Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (9), 3229-3236; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1218525110
  • Dubilier N., Bergin C, Lott C.(October 6, 2008)"Symbiotic diversity in marine animals: the art of harnessing chemosynthesis".Nature Reviews in Microbiology 6 (10):725-40; https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro1992.
  • Woyke T., Teeling H., Ivanova N.N., Huntemann M., Richter M., Gloeckner F.O., Boffelli D., Anderson I.J., Barry K.W., Shapiro H.J., Szeto E., Kyrpides N.C., Mussmann M., Amann R., Bergin C., Ruehland C., Rubin E.M., Dubilier N.(October 26, 2006). "Symbiosis insights through metagenomic analysis of a microbial consortium". Nature 443 (7114), 950; https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05192
  • Dubilier N., Mülders C., Ferdelman T., de Beer D., Pernthaler A., Klein M., Wagner M., Erséus C., Thiermann F., Krieger J., Giere O. and Amann R. (May 17, 2001). "Endosymbiotic sulfate-reducing and sulphide-oxidizing bacteria in an oligochaete worm". Nature 411 (6835), 298; https://doi.org/10.1038/35077067

References
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  2. "Dubilier, Nicole". www.mpg.de. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  3. "Lebenslauf". www.mpi-bremen.de. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  4. "DFG, German Research Foundation - Prof. Dr. Nicole Dubilier". www.dfg.de. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  5. Wilbanks, Elizabeth (2018). "Chapter 7. Nicole Dubilier: A Force of Nature". In Whitaker, Rachel; Barton, Hazel (eds.). Women in Microbiology. Washington D.C.: American Society of Microbiology. pp. 57–64. ISBN 9781555819545.
  6. "Sold on Symbiosis". The Scientist Magazine®. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  7. "15.11.2013 Nicole Dubilier appointed Director at the Max Planck Institute in Bremen". www.mpi-bremen.de. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  8. "Nicole Dubilier". Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  9. "2009 Gordon Research Conference, Applied and Environmental Microbiology". 2009-07-12. OSTI 988280. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. "DFG, German Research Foundation". www.dfg.de. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  11. Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (2018). "Nicole Dubilier Investigator Award". Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  12. "2009 Gordon Research Conference, Applied and Environmental Microbiology". 2009-07-12. OSTI 988280. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. Campbell, Ashley. "Empirically Dancing Your Way to the Top How Nicole Dubilier Does It!". Scientific American Blog Network. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  14. "Nicole Dubilier - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.de. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
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