The Adam Kondorosi Academia Europaea Early-Career Investigator Award#
The Academy of Europe is pleased to announce the Adam Kondorosi Academia Europaea Early-Career Investigator Award 2023 winner, Dr. Pierre-Mark Delaux.
Dr. Pierre-Mark Delaux receives the 2023 Adam Kondorosi Academia Europaea Early-Career Investigator Award in recognition of exceptional contributions to the evolution of root nodule symbiosis and the elucidation of the common symbiosis signalling pathway.
Professor Delaux will deliver the 2023 Adam Kondorosi Lecture: “Transitions between symbiotic states”. The laudation will be given by Professor Eva Kondorosi MAE.
The award was presented on 31th August 2023 at the 15th European Nitrogen Fixation Conference
Auditorium of the Royal Continental Hotel, Naples, Italy.
About Pierre-Mark Delaux#
Dr. Pierre-Marc Delaux has completed his MSc in biochemistry and Ph.D in plant – microbe interactions at the University of Toulouse, France. He then moved to Jean-Michel Ané’s lab at the university of Wisconsin Madison (Madison, USA) for a first postdoc (2011-2014), and a second postdoc in Giles Oldroyd’s lab at the John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK, 2014-2015). In 2015 he was as CNRS researcher at the University of Toulouse, and promoted research director in 2020. At the University of Toulouse he is leading the evolution of plant – microbe interaction group.
His group is interested in understanding how mutualistic symbioses between plants and microorganisms have evolved and diversified as well as how they function. Dr. Delaux’s group has been employing comparative phylogenomics to reconstruct the evolutionary patterns of plant symbiosis and identify genes involved in symbiosis evolution. By combining with the computational analyses, his group has also established genetic and synthetic biology pipelines to examine the molecular bases of plant symbiosis evolution. The long-term goal of Dr. Delaux’s research is to make use of the information on plant symbiosis evolution to engineer novel or synthetic symbioses.
About the prize#
The Adam Kondorosi Academia Europaea Early-Career Investigator Award recognizes a young scholar for an outstanding scientific contribution.
The awards consist of a diploma/medal and prize money. This prize was established in recognition of the significant achievements made in the field of plant and microbe interactions and symbiotic nitrogen fixation by the late Professor Adam Kondorosi.
Members of the Award Committee:#
- Eva Kondorosi, Academia Europaea
- Sharon Long, Stanford University
- Graham O’Hara, Murdoch University
- Klaus Palme, Academia Europaea
- Ray Dixon, Academia Europaea
- Simona Radutoiu, ENFC Board
- Peter Mergaert,ENFC Board
- Luis Rubio, ENFC president
