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Best Poster Award

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 Award

Best Poster for Graduate Students

2024We regret to inform our members that there will be no Best Poster Awards at SMBE 2024
2023To Come
2022Not awarded
2021Not awarded
2020Not awarded
2019Yevgeniy Raynes, Brown University
Migration promotes mutator alleles in subdivided populations 
[PO-391]
Yirong Wang, Peking UniversityBiosynthetic energy cost for amino acids decreases in cancer evolution [PO-739]
Joachim Surm, The Hebrew University of JerusalemThe draft genome of Actinia tenebrosa reveals insights into the evolution of venom innovations [PO-528]
2018Joel M. AlvesPoster 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

  • Historical and modern rabbit populations reveal parallel adaptation to myxoma virus across two continents
Dorota PaczesniakPoster authors and title: Dorota Paczesniak*, Marco Pellino, Devan Guenter, Siegfried Jahnke, Andreas Fischbach, John T. Lovell, Timothy F. Sharbel

  • Tissue specific ploidy variation in sexual and apomictic seeds
Kentaro M. TanakaPoster authors and title: Kentaro M. Tanaka*, Yoshitaka Kamimura, Aya Takahashi

  • Deciphering genetic basis and copulatory effect underlying the rapid diversification of male genitalia between sibling species of Drosophila melanogaster
2017Marc TollisArizona State University, USA
Elizabeth AtkinsonStony Brook University, USA
Atahualpa Castillo MoralesUniversity of Bath, UK
2016Paolo FranchiniUniversity of Konstanz, Germany
Hilary MartinSanger Institute, UK
2015Matthew HansenUniversity of Pennsylvania, USA
2014Pontus SkoglundHarvard Medical School, USA
Clement ChowCornell University, USA
2013
2012Henrik DeFine LichtLund University, Sweden
Way SungIndiana University, USA
2011Christopher IllingworthWellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Valer GoteaNational Human Genome Research Institute, USA
2010Grzegorz KudlaUniversity of Edinburgh, UK
2009Joshua ShapiroUniversity of Chicago, USA
Olivier FedrigoDuke University, USA
2008Mathew D. DeanUniversity of Arizona, USA
Wayne DelportUniversity of Cape Town, South Africa
D. Allan DrummondHarvard University, USA
Siobain DuffyThe Pennsylvania State University, USA
Felicity JonesStanford University, USA
Vini PereiraUniversity of Sussex, UK
2007Jixin DengUniversity of North Carolina, USA
Yasuhiro GoHarvard University, USA
Sasha LevyNew York University, USA
Masafumi NozawaPennsylvania State University, USA
Thane PapkeDalhousie University, Canada
Shigeru SaitoIwate University, Japan
2006Heather NortonUniversity of Arizona, USA
2005Kate JohnstonUniversity College Dublin, Ireland
Scott RoyHarvard University, USA

 

Best Poster for Graduate Students

2023To come
2022Not awarded
 2021Not awarded
2020Not awarded
2019Kirsten Verster, University of California - BerkeleyHorizontal transfer of bacterial cytolethal distending toxin genes to insects [PO-004]
Yan Ling Iris Chiu, University of TorontoFunctional adaptations of dim-light vision in aquatic environments [PO-147]
James Horton, University of BathRemarkably Repeatable Rewiring of Gene Regulation in Pseudomonas fluorescens [PO-643]
2018Maria A. SpyrouPoster 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

 

  • Historical Y. pestis genomes provide insights into the initiation and progression of the second plague pandemic
Geno GuerraPoster authors and title: Geno Guerra*, Rasmus Nielsen

 

  • Composite Likelihood Estimation of Phylogenies from Genomic Data using Coalescent Theory 
Xueying C. LiPoster authors and title: Xueying C. Li*, David Peris, Chris Todd Hittinger, Elaine A. Sia, Justin C. Fay

 

  • Mitochondrial-encoded genes contribute to thermal divergence between Saccharomyces species
 2017James FlemingUniversity of Bristol, UK
Pinglin CaoTohoku University, Japan
Magdalena KubiakAdam Mickiewicz University, Poland
2016Federico GaitiUniversity of Queensland, Australia
Kristina Vanessa KlausUniversity of Bochum, Germany
Guangying WangChinese Academy of Sciences, China
2015Cong LiangYale University Systems Biology Institute, USA
Chuan LiUniversity of Michigan, USA
Charles PughUniversity of Florida, USA
Evgeni FrenkelHarvard University, USA
2014Francesco Nicola CarelliUniversite de Lausanne, Switzerland
Steven ReillyYale University, USA
2013
2012Yves ClementMax Planck Institute For Molecular Genetic, Germany
2011Ryuichi SuginoGraduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan
Ding HeUppsala University, Sweden
2010Sidi ChenUniversity of Chicago, USA
2009Daniel SkellyUniversity of Washington, USA
Kerry A. GeilerHarvard University, USA
David GarfieldDuke University, USA
2008David Álvarez-PonceUniversitat de Barcelona, Spain
Susan LottUniversity of Chicago, USA
Julien RouxUniversity of Lausanne, Switzerland
Sarah SchaackIndiana University, USA
Sandra TrindadeInstituto Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Nicolas VinckenboschUniversity of Lausanne, Switzerland
2007Jennifer BecqUniversité Paris Diderot, Paris 7, France
Trevor BedfordHarvard University, USA
William FergusonQueens College, City University of New York, USA
Mira HanIndiana University, USA
June KeayUniversity of Oregon, USA
David PlachetzkiUniversity of California Santa Barbara, USA
2006D. Allan DrummondCalifornia Institute of Technology, USA
2005Katja NowickMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Best Poster for Undergraduate Students

 2023 To come
 2022Not awarded
2021Not awarded
2020Not awarded
 2019Sarah Medley, Oakland UniversityEvolutionary trends in epitopes and low complexity regions of multiple Plasmodium species [PO-309]
Zane Kliesmete, Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichThe regulatory and coding sequences of Trnp1 co-evolve with cortical folding in mammals [PO-355]
Imtiyaz Enayatali Hariyani, New York University Abu DhabiSpeciation and transposable element amplification in the Ethiopian frog species complex Ptychadena neumanni [PO-480]
2018Abdulla DaanaaPoster authors and title: Hassan Sibroe Abdulla Daanaa*, Ali Mostafa Anwar

  • Evidence that the motility organelle of Mycoplasma pneumoniae is under translational selection and insights on its pathogenic lifestyle 
Sara El ShawaPoster authors and title: Sara El-Shawa*, Rob Ness

 

  • The effect of genetic connectivity on the strength of natural selection in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 
 Kara BoyerPoster authors and title: Kara Boyer*, Nicole Creanza, Maanasa Raghavan

 

  • Linguistics as a Complementary Metric for Human Migration History and the Peopling of the Americas 
2017Isabela Jeronimo Bezerra MarcosUniversidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil
Joseph PalmerUniversity of Sheffield, UK
Dan WerndlyCurtin University, Australia
2015
2014Gwenna BretonUppsala University, Sweden
2013
2012Katharine OwersUppsala University, Sweden
2011Sarah ErbIndiana University, USA
Thomas WeighillStellenbosch University, South Africa
2010Jae Young ChoiUniversity of Toronto
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