Nicole Dubilier is an American marine microbiologist who teaches at the University of Bremen. she was born on January 16th 1957 in New York City, New York. She is an evolutionary biologist. she is best known for her work with marine microbiology, which gave her the international status that she has today. she is one of the main reasons that humans know so much about marine evolution to this date.
Her Early Life
Nicole Dubilier was born on January 1957 in New York City, New York. Her father was an American businessman, & her mother was a German immigrant. Her mother was a direct relative of one of the greatest electrophysiology pioneers, Emil Du Bois-Reymond, as well as the renowned pianist & composer, Fanny Mendelssohn. As a juvenile she originally was interested in a much different form of art, classical ballet. In 1970 Stuttgart Ballet accepted her to train with John Cranko. However, she decided otherwise & choose to stay in Wiesbaden (now Hessen Germany) with her mother & 3 her 3 siblings. During her primary years of school, science never crossed her repertoire of interests. It was her visits to Fire Island New York City & her marine internship at the Biological Institute of Heligoland Germany.
Her Career
She established her career mostly in Germany via her internship at the Biological Institute of Heligoland Germany. In 1985 Dr. Dubilier obtained her degree in zoology biochemistry & microbiology. She got her Ph.D. in marine biology from the University of Hamburg in 1992 alongside Olav Giere. However, during her graduate studies she found herself dispassionate & quite disinterested in her studies often wanting to quit. Yet she with persistence & motivation, finished her degree. In 1992, with this new found motivation to rediscover the excitement of marine biology, Dr. Dubilier attended a molecular biology summer course at University of Southern California. This course was instructed by Dr. Donal T. Manahan at University of Southern California. Later, from 1993-1995, she experienced her first post-doctoral with the guidance of Collen Cavanaugh on hydrothermal vents, and chemosynthetic life forms. Two years later, she started her career with the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, first as a post-doctoral studying the evolution of bacterial symbiosis in gutless worms (1997-2001) and afterwards as the coordinator of the Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology International Research Program (2002-2017), head of the Symbiosis Laboratory (2001-2017) and the head of the Symbiosis Department (since 2013).
Dr. Dubilier has continued her work on symbiotic relationships within chemosynthetic living organisms, expanding her exploration & knowledge of both shallow & deep-sea environments, ranging from seagrass to coastal sediments, through meta-omic approaches, like say metaproteomics & metagenomics. Her primary animal models constitute of shrimp, gutless-worms, nematodes, and ciliates.
Her Honorables, Achievements & Awards
2017 Co-Chair American Society Microbiology Microbe Conference.
2017 Co-Chair American Society Microbiology Microbe Conference
2014 German Research Foundation Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz prize.
2013 Elected Member at the American Academy of Microbiology.
2013 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Marine Microbiology Initiative Award.
2009 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Applied and Environmental Microbiology chapter.
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