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 for Postdoctoral Fellows

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 Historical and modern rabbit populations reveal parallel adaptation to myxoma virus across two continents
	Dorota Paczesniak	Poster 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. Tanaka	Poster 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*
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
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 Historical Y. pestis genomes provide insights into the initiation and progression of the second plague pandemic*
	Geno Guerra	Poster authors and title: Geno Guerra, Rasmus Nielsen Composite Likelihood Estimation of Phylogenies from Genomic Data using Coalescent Theory*
	Xueying C. Li	Poster 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*
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 Evidence that the motility organelle of Mycoplasma pneumoniae is under translational selection and insights on its pathogenic lifestyle*
	Sara El Shawa	Poster authors and title: Sara El-Shawa, Rob Ness The effect of genetic connectivity on the strength of natural selection in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii*
	Kara Boyer	Poster authors and title: Kara Boyer, Nicole Creanza, Maanasa Raghavan Linguistics as a Complementary Metric for Human Migration History and the Peopling of the Americas*
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

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