MCDB Distingushed Professor Norm Pace honored with Tiedje Lifetime Achievement Award in Microbial Ecology.

In August, Professor Pace will attend the Cairns, Australia meeting of
the International Congress on Microbial Ecology to accept the Tiedje
Lifetime Achievement Award in Microbial Ecology. Here, Pace will be
honored for his development of methods for analysis of the makeup of natural microbial ecosystems without the traditional requirement for culture of the organisms. Since most environmental microbes defy
culture, Pace's introduction of molecular tools for culture-independent identifications has resulted in the discovery of many thousands of novel microbial species, and provided an entirely new window into the natural microbial world. In 2007, Pace was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Microbiology for his developments and discoveries in microbiology.