The Fleming Prize Lecture was started by the

Microbiology Society The Microbiology Society (previously the Society for General Microbiology) is a learned society based in the United Kingdom with a worldwide membership based in universities, industry, hospitals, research institutes and schools. It is the large ...

in 1976 and named after

Alexander Fleming Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His discovery in 1928 of w ...

, one of the founders of the society. It is for early career researchers, generally within 12 of being awarded their PhD, who have an outstanding independent research record making a distinct contribution to microbiology. Nominations can be made by any member of the society. Nominees do not have to be members. The award is £1,000 and the awardee is expected to give a lecture based on their research at the Microbiology Society's Annual Conference. The following have been awarded this prize. *1976 Graham Gooday Biosynthesis of the Fungal Wall – Mechanisms and Implications *1977 Peter Newell Cellular Communication During Aggregation of Dictyostelium *1978 George AM Cross Immunochemical Aspects of Antigenic Variation in Trypanosomes *1979 John Beringer The Development of Rhizobium Genetics *1980 Duncan James McGeoch Structural Analysis of Animal Virus Genomes *1981 Dave Sherratt The Maintenance and Propagation of Plasmid Genes in Bacterial Populations *1982 Brian Spratt Penicillin-binding Proteins and the Future of β-Lactam Antibiotics *1983 Ray Dixon The Genetic Complexity of Nitrogen Fixation Herpes Siplex and The Herpes Complex *1984

Paul Nurse Sir Paul Maxime Nurse (born 25 January 1949) is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along ...

Cell Cycle Control in Yeast *1985 Jeffrey Almond Genetic Diversity in Small RNA Viruses *1986

Douglas Kell Douglas Bruce Kell (born 7 April 1953) is a British biochemist and Research Professor of Systems Biology in the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology at the University of Liverpool, and Chief Scientific Officer oEpoch Biodesig ...

Forces, Fluxes and Control of Microbial Metabolism *1987 Christopher Higgins Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Transport: from Microbes to Man *1988

Gordon Dougan Gordon Dougan is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge and head of pathogen research and a member of the board of management at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is also a Fellow of ...

An Oral Route to Rational Vaccination *1989 Andrew Davison Varicella-Zoster Virus *1989 Graham J Boulnois Molecular Dissection of the Host-Microbe Interaction in Infection *1990 No award *1991 Lynne Boddy The Ecology of Wood- and Litter-rotting Basidiomycete Fungi *1992 Geoffrey L Smith Vaccinia Virus Glycoproteins and Immune Evasion *1993

Neil Gow Neil Gow (1907–1919) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and Horse breeding#Terminology, sire who won the British Classic Races, classic 2000 Guineas in 1910. In a racing career that lasted from spring 1909 until July 1910 the colt (horse ...

Directional Growth and Guidance Systems of Fungal Pathogens *1994 Ian Roberts Bacterial Polysaccharides in Sickness and in Health and Charles Dorman DNA Topology and the Global Regulation of Bacterial Virulence Gene Expression *1995 No award *1996 Anthony Carr Cell Division and Mitosis in the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe *1997 Colin J Stirling Protein Targeting to the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Yeast *1998 No award *1999 David Richardson Bacterial Respiration: a Flexible Process for a Changing Environment *2000 Peter Simmons The Origin and Evolution of Hepatitis Viruses in Humans *2001 Brendan Kenny Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli *2002

Tracy Palmer Tracy Palmer is a Professor of Microbiology in the Biosciences Institute at Newcastle University in Tyne & Wear, England. She is known for her work on the twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway. Early life and education Palmer was born in ...

and Ben Berks Moving Folded Proteins Across the Bacterial Cell Membrane *2003 Chris Bishoff AIDS-associated Cancer and KSHV/HHV-8 *2004 Mark Paget Managing Redox Stress in Bacteria *2005 Adrian Whitehouse Understanding the Latent-Lytic Switch in Gamma-2 Herpesviruses *2006 Frank Sargent Constructing the Wonders of the Bacterial World: Biosynthesis of Complex Enzymes *2007 Greg Challis Mining Microbial Genomes for New Natural Products and Biosynthetic Pathways *2008 Cameron Simmons Understanding Emerging Pathogens: H5N1 Influenza and Dengue in Vietnam *2009

Nicola Stanley-Wall Nicola Stanley-Wall FRSE FRSB is a Professor of Microbiology in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee who works on the molecular mechanism of biofilm formation. Her laboratory investigates how bacteria come together to form s ...

The Complexity of Biofilm Formation by Bacillus subtilis *2010 Steve Diggle Microbial Communication and Virulence: Lessons from Evolutionary Theory *2011 Peter Cherepanov Structural Biology of Retroviral DNA Integration *2012 William Hanage Plagues and Populations - Patterns of Pathogen Evolution *2013 No award *2014 Nikolay Zenkin Multiple personalities of RNA polymerase active centre *2015 Michael Brockhurst Rapid microbial evolution: From the lab to the clinic and back again *2016 David Grainger The unexpected complexity of

bacterial genome Bacterial genomes are generally smaller and less variant in size among species when compared with genomes of eukaryotes. Bacterial genomes can range in size anywhere from about 130 Base_pair#Length_measurements, kbp to over 14 Base_pair#Length_meas ...

s *2017 Stephen Baker The collateral damage of antimicrobial access in Asia *2018 Sarah Coulthurst

type VI secretion system The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is molecular machine used by a wide range of Gram-negative bacterial species to transport effectors from the interior (cytoplasm or cytosol) of a bacterial cell across the cellular envelope into an adjacent targe ...

-mediated bacterial warfare *2019 Peter Fineran bacterial innate and adaptive immune systems *2020 Edze Westra molecular mechanisms and evolutionary ecology of

CRISPR CRISPR () (an acronym for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a family of DNA sequences found in the genomes of prokaryotic organisms such as bacteria and archaea. These sequences are derived from DNA fragments of bacte ...

-Cas systems. *2021 Britt Koskella bacteria and viruses of the plant

microbiome A microbiome () is the community of microorganisms that can usually be found living together in any given habitat. It was defined more precisely in 1988 by Whipps ''et al.'' as "a characteristic microbial community occupying a reasonably well ...

*2023 Tanmay Bharat research on prokaryotic surface layers and biofilms

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fleming Prize Lecture Biology awards British science and technology awards Awards established in 1976