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Winners 2020 Westerdijk and Kiem Awards
>> Due to the cancellation of the Scientific Spring Meeting the prizes could unfortunately not be awarded live. Below are the awardees for 2020.
Westerdijk Award
Dani Heesterbeek
Category Host Pathogen Interaction
Title thesis: How complement kills bacteria
Charlotte Melia
Category Cellular & Molecular Microbiology
Title thesis: Endomembrane mutiny: how picornaviruses hijack host organelles to support their replication
Arthur Gorter de Vries
Category Environmental & Applied Microbiology
Title thesis: Genome analysis and engineering of industrial lager brewing yeasts
Kiem award
Rob van Dalen
Category Medical Microbiology
Title article: "Langerhans Cells Sense Staphylococcus aureus Wall Teichoic Acid through Langerin To Induce Inflammatory Responses”
Else-Jasmijn Hassing
Category Microbial Ecology
Title article: "Connecting central carbon and aromatic amino acid metabolisms to improve de novo 2-phenylethanol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
Xinyue Li
Category General Microbiology
Title article: "MUC1 is a receptor for the Salmonella SiiE adhesin that enables apical invasion into enterocytes”