We are delighted to announce this year’s Graduate Student Excellence Award winners and the winners of the Best Graduate Student Paper Awards!
Graduate Student Excellence Awards
The SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award honors the best presentation at the Graduate Student Excellence symposium, which provides a forum for young investigators to showcase their exemplary research at the annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE).
Catarina Branco, Biomedical Research Center (CINBIO), University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain. Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Title: Influence of the Last Glacial Period on the genetic diversity of current Southeast Asians
Ian Vasconcellos Caldas, Department of Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Title: Inferring selective sweep parameters through supervised learning
Alida de Flamingh, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
Title: Sourcing Elephant Ivory from a Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Shipwreck
Michelle P Harwood, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Title: Recombination and population demographics impact allele-specific-expression of deleterious variants in human populations
Amanda Kowalczyk, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Title: Pan-mammalian analysis of molecular constraints underlying extended lifespan in mammals
Yeonwoo Park, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Title: Historical memory, epistasis, and contingency in long-term protein evolution
Thea F. Rogers, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Title: Sex-specific selection drives the evolution of alternative splicing in birds
Mengyi Sun, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Title: Preferred synonymous codons are more accurately translated: proteomic evidence, among-species variation, and mechanistic basis
Best Graduate Student Paper
These awards provide recognition for outstand
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