KNVM

• Apr 16, 2013, 8:42:28 AM

Roger Porter Award for Lenie Dijkshoorn

The 2013 USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award has been presented to Lenie Dijkshoorn, Ph.D., Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands. The award, given in memory of J. Rodger Porter, honors extraordinary efforts by a scientist who has demonstrated the importance of microbial biodiversity through sustained curatorial or stewardship activities for a major resource used by the scientific community. Joan Bennett says “Dijkshoorn’s willingness to follow through on projects large and small, her high professional standards and her rigor as a taxonomist, make her an ideal candidate for the USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award.”