Best Poster Information
In 2005, the SMBE Council decided to present at each meeting one or more Best Poster Prizes for Postdoctoral Fellows and Graduate Students. In 2010, a Best Poster Prize for undergraduate students was added.
The poster prizes are decided by a committee convened by the President-Elect. Poster prizes consist of up to 9 prizes of $500 each, to be distributed in the 3 categories of postdoc, graduate student, and undergraduate prizes.

Best Poster for Graduate Students
2024 | We regret to inform our members that there will be no Best Poster Awards at SMBE 2024 | |
2023 | To Come | |
2022 | Not awarded | |
2021 | Not awarded | |
2020 | Not awarded | |
2019 | Yevgeniy Raynes, Brown University | Migration promotes mutator alleles in subdivided populations [PO-391] |
Yirong Wang, Peking University | Biosynthetic energy cost for amino acids decreases in cancer evolution [PO-739] | |
Joachim Surm, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | The draft genome of Actinia tenebrosa reveals insights into the evolution of venom innovations [PO-528] | |
2018 | Joel M. Alves | Poster authors and title: Joel M Alves*, Miguel Carneiro, Jade Y Cheng, Ana Lemos de Matos, Masmudur M Rahman, Liisa Loog, Anders Eriksson, Grant McFadden, Rasmus Nielsen, Thomas P Gilbert, Pedro J Esteves, Nuno Ferrand, Francis M Jiggins
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Dorota Paczesniak | Poster authors and title: Dorota Paczesniak*, Marco Pellino, Devan Guenter, Siegfried Jahnke, Andreas Fischbach, John T. Lovell, Timothy F. Sharbel
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Kentaro M. Tanaka | Poster authors and title: Kentaro M. Tanaka*, Yoshitaka Kamimura, Aya Takahashi
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2017 | Marc Tollis | Arizona State University, USA |
Elizabeth Atkinson | Stony Brook University, USA | |
Atahualpa Castillo Morales | University of Bath, UK | |
2016 | Paolo Franchini | University of Konstanz, Germany |
Hilary Martin | Sanger Institute, UK | |
2015 | Matthew Hansen | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
2014 | Pontus Skoglund | Harvard Medical School, USA |
Clement Chow | Cornell University, USA | |
2013 | ||
2012 | Henrik DeFine Licht | Lund University, Sweden |
Way Sung | Indiana University, USA | |
2011 | Christopher Illingworth | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK |
Valer Gotea | National Human Genome Research Institute, USA | |
2010 | Grzegorz Kudla | University of Edinburgh, UK |
2009 | Joshua Shapiro | University of Chicago, USA |
Olivier Fedrigo | Duke University, USA | |
2008 | Mathew D. Dean | University of Arizona, USA |
Wayne Delport | University of Cape Town, South Africa | |
D. Allan Drummond | Harvard University, USA | |
Siobain Duffy | The Pennsylvania State University, USA | |
Felicity Jones | Stanford University, USA | |
Vini Pereira | University of Sussex, UK | |
2007 | Jixin Deng | University of North Carolina, USA |
Yasuhiro Go | Harvard University, USA | |
Sasha Levy | New York University, USA | |
Masafumi Nozawa | Pennsylvania State University, USA | |
Thane Papke | Dalhousie University, Canada | |
Shigeru Saito | Iwate University, Japan | |
2006 | Heather Norton | University of Arizona, USA |
2005 | Kate Johnston | University College Dublin, Ireland |
Scott Roy | Harvard University, USA | |
Best Poster for Graduate Students | ||
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2023 | To come | |
2022 | Not awarded | |
2021 | Not awarded | |
2020 | Not awarded | |
2019 | Kirsten Verster, University of California - Berkeley | Horizontal transfer of bacterial cytolethal distending toxin genes to insects [PO-004] |
Yan Ling Iris Chiu, University of Toronto | Functional adaptations of dim-light vision in aquatic environments [PO-147] | |
James Horton, University of Bath | Remarkably Repeatable Rewiring of Gene Regulation in Pseudomonas fluorescens [PO-643] | |
2018 | Maria A. Spyrou | Poster authors and title: Maria A. Spyrou*, Marcel Keller, Rezeda I. Tukhbatova, Elisabeth Nelson, Don Walker, Sacha Kacki, Dominique Castex, Sandra Loesch, Michaela Harbeck , Alexander Herbig, Kirsten I Bos, Johannes Krause
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Geno Guerra | Poster authors and title: Geno Guerra*, Rasmus Nielsen
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Xueying C. Li | Poster authors and title: Xueying C. Li*, David Peris, Chris Todd Hittinger, Elaine A. Sia, Justin C. Fay
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2017 | James Fleming | University of Bristol, UK |
Pinglin Cao | Tohoku University, Japan | |
Magdalena Kubiak | Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland | |
2016 | Federico Gaiti | University of Queensland, Australia |
Kristina Vanessa Klaus | University of Bochum, Germany | |
Guangying Wang | Chinese Academy of Sciences, China | |
2015 | Cong Liang | Yale University Systems Biology Institute, USA |
Chuan Li | University of Michigan, USA | |
Charles Pugh | University of Florida, USA | |
Evgeni Frenkel | Harvard University, USA | |
2014 | Francesco Nicola Carelli | Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland |
Steven Reilly | Yale University, USA | |
2013 | ||
2012 | Yves Clement | Max Planck Institute For Molecular Genetic, Germany |
2011 | Ryuichi Sugino | Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan |
Ding He | Uppsala University, Sweden | |
2010 | Sidi Chen | University of Chicago, USA |
2009 | Daniel Skelly | University of Washington, USA |
Kerry A. Geiler | Harvard University, USA | |
David Garfield | Duke University, USA | |
2008 | David Álvarez-Ponce | Universitat de Barcelona, Spain |
Susan Lott | University of Chicago, USA | |
Julien Roux | University of Lausanne, Switzerland | |
Sarah Schaack | Indiana University, USA | |
Sandra Trindade | Instituto Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal | |
Nicolas Vinckenbosch | University of Lausanne, Switzerland | |
2007 | Jennifer Becq | Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7, France |
Trevor Bedford | Harvard University, USA | |
William Ferguson | Queens College, City University of New York, USA | |
Mira Han | Indiana University, USA | |
June Keay | University of Oregon, USA | |
David Plachetzki | University of California Santa Barbara, USA | |
2006 | D. Allan Drummond | California Institute of Technology, USA |
2005 | Katja Nowick | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany |
Best Poster for Undergraduate Students | ||
2023 | To come | |
2022 | Not awarded | |
2021 | Not awarded | |
2020 | Not awarded | |
2019 | Sarah Medley, Oakland University | Evolutionary trends in epitopes and low complexity regions of multiple Plasmodium species [PO-309] |
Zane Kliesmete, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | The regulatory and coding sequences of Trnp1 co-evolve with cortical folding in mammals [PO-355] | |
Imtiyaz Enayatali Hariyani, New York University Abu Dhabi | Speciation and transposable element amplification in the Ethiopian frog species complex Ptychadena neumanni [PO-480] | |
2018 | Abdulla Daanaa | Poster authors and title: Hassan Sibroe Abdulla Daanaa*, Ali Mostafa Anwar
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Sara El Shawa | Poster authors and title: Sara El-Shawa*, Rob Ness
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Kara Boyer | Poster authors and title: Kara Boyer*, Nicole Creanza, Maanasa Raghavan
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2017 | Isabela Jeronimo Bezerra Marcos | Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil |
Joseph Palmer | University of Sheffield, UK | |
Dan Werndly | Curtin University, Australia | |
2015 | ||
2014 | Gwenna Breton | Uppsala University, Sweden |
2013 | ||
2012 | Katharine Owers | Uppsala University, Sweden |
2011 | Sarah Erb | Indiana University, USA |
Thomas Weighill | Stellenbosch University, South Africa | |
2010 | Jae Young Choi | University of Toronto |