KNVM

The KNVM/NVMM science committee offers the Van Leeuwenhoek Awards to young post-docs in microbiology (<5 years after obtaining a PhD degree) for the best publication as first, last and/or corresponding author published in the past year with that author listed as being a member of a Dutch university or research institute. The postdoc must be an active member of the KNVM/NVMM as evidenced by for example membership or previous presentations at KNVM/NVMM meetings. The prizes are annually awarded at the KNVM/NVMM Scientific Spring Meeting. The Jury consists of members of the KNVM/NVMM science committee. The prize is awarded in the three categories “general microbiology”, “medical microbiology”, or “environmental microbiology”. Please send your application to secretariaat@nvmm.nl containing the following documents:

• A PDF of the article
• A note of which category the article should be evaluated in (general microbiology /medical microbiology /environmental microbiology)
• Information on KNVM/NVMM membership and poster/oral presentations by the postdoc on NVMM/KNVM symposia and conferences in the last 5 years

Submission deadline: 13 December 2024

The Van Leeuwenhoek Awards were established to commemorate Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, known for his pioneering work in microscopy, who was the first to observe microorganisms and therefore became the ‘father of microbiology’.

Awardees

2023

• Adela Melcrova Lateral membrane organization as target of an antimicrobial peptidomimetic compound.
• Johan van der Plas Causal chemoprophylactic activity of cabamiquine against Plasmodium falciparum in a controlled human malaria infection: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in the Netherlands.

2023

• Luca Zaeck
  Low levels of monkeypox virus-neutralizing antibodies after MVA-BN vaccination in healthy individuals

  Nat Med. 2023 Jan;29(1):270-278. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-02090-w.
  Erasmus MC Rotterdam​​​​​​

2022

• Daniel Hurdiss
  Fluoxetine targets an allosteric site in the enterovirus 2C AAA+ ATPase and stabilizes a ring-shaped hexameric complex
  Sci Adv. 2022 8:eabj7615.
  Utrecht University
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• Julia Kurth
  Methanogenic archaea use a bacteria-like methyltransferase system to demethoxylate aromatic compounds
  ISME J . 2021 15:3549-3565.
  Radboud University Nijmegen
  
  
• Catalin Bunduc
  Structure and dynamics of a mycobacterial type VII secretion system
  Nature. 2021 593:445-448.
  ​​​​​​​VU University Amsterdam​​​​​​​

2021

• Wouter Versantvoort
  Multiheme hydroxylamine oxidoreductases produce NO during ammonia oxidation in methanotrophs. 
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020;117(39):24459-24463.
  Radboud University Nijmegen​

2018 

• Louis Ates
  Mutations in ppe38 block PE_PGRS secretion and increase virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
  Nature microbiology 3.2 (2018): 181-188.
  VU University Medical Center Amsterdam 

2017

• Antoni Hendrickx
  Antibiotic-driven dysbiosis mediates intraluminal agglutination and alternative segregation of Enterococcus faecium from the intestinal epithelium.
  MBio, 6(6), e01346-15.