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ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿Members and Leaders Elected as 2024 AAAS Fellows

April 3, 2025

The ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ (ASM) proudly congratulates the 2024 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This prestigious honor recognizes individuals for their contributions to the advancement of science or its application for the benefit of society. Of the 471 scientists elected as 2024 AAAS Fellows, 34 are ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿members, including 20 who are also fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology (Academy), ASM’s honorific leadership group.

Notably, 3 past ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿Presidents are among this distinguished cohort, recognized for their leadership and contributions to microbiology:

• Virginia Miller, Ph.D. (ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿President, 2024).
• Steven Finkel, Ph.D. (ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿President, 2022).
• Robin Patel, M.D. (ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿President, 2020).

ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿members have been recognized across multiple scientific disciplines, including biological sciences, medical sciences and agriculture, food and renewable resources. ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿is proud to celebrate its outstanding membership and remains committed to supporting the global scientific community in advancing the microbial sciences.   

Presented by section affiliation, the list of ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿members elected as fellows of AAAS include: 

Section on Biological Sciences: 

• Gaya K. Amarasinghe, Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

• Alison Buchan, Ph.D., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

• Donald H. Burke-Agüero, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia.

• Isaac Cann, Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

• Debabrata Chakravarti, Ph.D., Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

• Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

• Sharon Lafferty Doty, Ph.D., University of Washington.

• Steven E. Finkel, Ph.D., University of Southern California.

• David E. Graham, Ph.D., Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

• Arie H. Havelaar, Ph.D., University of Florida.

• Jonathan Karn, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University.

• Kenneth Keiler, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin.

• Michael P. Lesser, Ph.D., University of New Hampshire.

• Henry L. Levin, Ph.D., Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH.

• Manuel Llinás, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University.

• Shirley Luckhart, Ph.D., University of Idaho.

• Virginia L. Miller, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• Nigel J. Mouncey, Ph.D., U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

• Matthew R. Parsek, Ph.D., University of Washington.

• Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

• David L. Popham, Ph.D., Virginia Tech.

• Gemma Reguera, Ph.D., Michigan State University.

• Craig R. Roy, Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine.

• Arun Srivastava, Ph.D., University of Florida College of Medicine.

• Gordon T. Taylor, Ph.D., Stony Brook University.

• Michael Terns, Ph.D., University of Georgia.

Section on Medical Sciences: 

• Elliot J. Androphy, M.D., Indiana University School of Medicine.

• Michael R. Barratt, M.D., NASA Johnson Space Center.

• Karen Bush, Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington.

• Larry S. McDaniel, Ph.D., University of Mississippi Medical Center.

• Ruth R. Montgomery, Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine.

• Robin Patel, M.D., Mayo Clinic.

• Abhay R. Satoskar, M.D., Ph.D., The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

Section on Agriculture, Food & Renewable Resources: 

• David G. White, Ph.D., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.