• National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council (Ad hoc; May 2015)
• UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor in Microbiology (2012)
• Invited reviewer for the NIH Director’s Pioneer Awards (2012-13)
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (2010)
• NIH MERIT Award in support of work on B₁₂ biosynthesis (R37-GM40313) (2010-2020)
• UW-Madison Kellet Mid-Career Faculty Researcher Award (2009)
• HHMI Teaching Fellow in Classroom Teaching (2007)
• Highlighted in the ASM ‘The Minority Microbiology Mentor’ (Article)
• Ira L. Baldwin Professor of Bacteriology (2001-2006).
• Chair, American Academy of Microbiology Graduate Teaching Award Committee (2009-2011)
• National Institutes of Health Prokaryotic Cell and Molecular Biology Study Section (2005-2009)
• Board of Directors, Wind River Meeting on Prokaryotic Biology (2005-present)
• Member of the Technology Center for Networks and Pathways (TCNP, JHU) (2005-present)
• 2004 American Society for Microbiology Graduate Teaching Award
• 2004 TRIO Brenda Pfaehler Award of Excellence in Education
• American Academy of Microbiology Graduate Teaching Award Committee (2006-2009)
• American Academy of Microbiology, Subcommittee on Award Nominations (2004-2007)
• External Reviewer of the Department of Botany and Microbiology, U of OK- Norman (2004).
• External Reviewer of the Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, U of Idaho-Moscow (2003).
• Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology (Elected 1999).
• Dupont Aid-To-Education Scholar (1999-2001).
• Chair of the Committee on Graduate Education of the American Society for Microbiology (2000-2004).
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Spitzer Excellence in Teaching Award (1999).
• UW-Madison Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award (1998).
• UW-Madison Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award (1991).
• UW-Madison, 1990 Nominee to the PEW Scholars Program in the Basic Sciences.
• Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow (1984-1987).
• Best Student in the School of Chemistry, UNAM, México (1976).

• American Society for Microbiology
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Chemical Society
• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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