Joe Lutkenhaus
National Academy member keeps fingers on the Z ring

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Joe Lutkenhaus
He won the 2012 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize and election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Still, Joe Lutkenhaus, one of the country’s foremost bacterial cell researchers, is pleasantly surprised when his research into FtsZ and discovery of the Z ring garners well-deserved attention.