EMI Lecture 2023: Professor Betül Kaçar

For our 25th EMI Lecture, we returned to BMA House in London to recognise Professor Betül Kaçar, an outstanding researcher in the field of environmental microbiology in partnership with our partners Wiley, who publish our journal Environmental Microbiology.

Betül Kaçar is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Bacteriology and pioneered the field of molecular paleobiology. She investigates the origins and coevolution of cellular life and environment in lifeforms extinct and extant, using experimental and computational systems.  

Each year, the Environmental Microbiology lecture is given by distinguished active scientists who are making seminal contributions to microbiology and the understanding of microbiological processes. You can view previously available EMI lectures by clicking here.

Betül presented the lecture Planetary microbiology: From cells to ecosystems across space and time.