Jun. 7—GRIFFIN — Francisco Diez-Gonzalez, director of the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety, has been elected as a fellow into the prestigious American Academy of Microbiology. Diez-Gonzalez was one of 65 new fellows admitted in the Class of 2023 out of a nomination pool of 148.

The American Society for Microbiology seeks to advance microbial sciences and is one of the largest professional societies of life sciences. In the last 50 years, 2,600 scientists have been elected to its academy, which is an honorific leadership group and think tank.

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