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Farooq Azam - F1000 Faculty Member (since 04 July 2001)

MBRD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla , CA , USA

BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION:
B.S., Punjab University, Pakistan
M.S., Punjab University, Pakistan
Ph.D., Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences

MEMBERSHIPS/AWARDS:
John Martin Award, ASLO, 2006
Nan-Qiang Forum for Distinguished Scientists Lecture, U. Xiamen, PRC, 2006
Elected Fellow American Academy of Microbiology, 2004
Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, U. Kalmar, Sweden, 2004
Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, Scripps, UCSD, 2004
Tiedje Award, International Society for Microbial Ecology, 2004
ISI Highly Cited Researcher, 2002
C. B. Van Niel Memorial Lecture, Stanford University, 1997
Plymouth Marine Sciences Lecture & Medal, 1996
Excellence in Research Award, UCSD, 1996
Eminent Scholars Series Lecturer, U. South Florida, 1995
Honorary Staff Member, Ecology Institute, Germany, 1985
Hutchinson Medal (American Soc. Limnol. Oceanography), 1985
Rosenstiel Medal in Oceanographic Sciences, 1984
Steinbach Visiting Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic, 1984
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, SUNY, Stony Brook, 1983
Faculty of 1000, Present

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Microbial oceanography; marine biogeochemistry; coral microbiology
Biochemical adaptations of marine bacteria
Role of bacteria in marine food-web dynamics

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