Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area scientist Nikos Kyrpides, co-author of a Science perspective piece calling for clearer policies on freely sharing publicly available genome data, received the American Society for Microbiology’s 2018 USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award, which recognizes outstanding efforts by a scientist who has demonstrated the importance of microbial biodiversity through sustained curatorial or stewardship activities for a major resource by the scientific community.
