Lapo Doni, a UniGe PhD student in the XXXVI cycle in "Sciences and Technologies of the Sea", "Marine Ecosystem Sciences" curriculum, was awarded the GenProbio 2025 awarded by SIMGBM - Società italiana di microbiologia generale e biotecnologie microbiche (Italian Society of General Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnologies) for the best PhD thesis on the topic "Microbiota: analysis of microbial and functional biodiversity aimed at understanding microorganism-host interactions".

His work, entitled 'Global Biogeography and Ecology of Vibrio in a Warming Planet', was awarded during the SIMGBM s annual congress in Rome, 17-20 September 2025.