Dr. Debashish Bhattacharya Receives Prestigious Miescher-Ishida Prize for Advancing the Field of Endosymbiosis

Distinguished Professor Debashish Bhattacharya was awarded the 2022 Miescher-Ishida Prize by the International Society of Endocytobiology (ISE) and the University of Tübingen, Germany. Dr. Bhattacharya was recognized for his many contributions to the field of plastid endosymbiosis. Including determining the place of algae in the tree of life, investigating the biology of extremophiles, and bringing high-throughput genomics methods to address many questions in algal evolution.