Best Student Publication Awards 2015
Congratulations to this year's recipients of SBS Best Student Publication Awards!
Congratulations to this year's recipients of SBS Best Student Publication Awards!
Ecology & Marine Biology
First: Alexandra Sebastien. “Invasive ants carry novel viruses in their new range and form reservoirs for a honeybee pathogen” in Biology Letters.
Second: Shaun Wilkinson. “Intra-genomic variation in symbiotic dinoflagellates: recent divergence or recombination between lineages” in BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Third: Amanda Taylor. “Epiphyte community development throughout tree ontogeny: an island ontogeny framework” in Journal of Vegetation Science.
Cell & Molecular Biology
First: Namal Coorey. “Pleiotropic drug-resistance attenuated genomic library improves elucidation of drug mechanisms” in Molecular Biosystems.
Second: Gagandeep Jain. “Betalain induction by L-DOPA application confers photoprotection to saline-exposed leaves of Disphyma australe” in New Phytologist.
Third: Ingrid Richter. “Detection of marine microalgal biotoxins using bioassays based on functional expression of tunicate xenobiotic receptors in yeast” in Toxicon.
All of the papers we received this year were of very high standard, which made judging extremely difficult. Prizes were awarded on the novelty of the questions asked, approaches used, broad generality of the contribution to the field, as well as generating interest and excitement in the reader. Well done to all!
All full citations:
Coorey, NVC, Matthews, JH, Bellows, DS, Atkinson PH. 2015. Pleiotropic drug-resistance attenuated genomic library improves elucidation of drug mechanisms. Molecular Biosystems 11, 3129-3136. DOI: 10.1039/c5mb00406c
Jain G, Schwinn KE, Gould KS. 2015. Betalain induction by L-DOPA application confers photoprotection to saline-exposed leaves of Disphyma australe. New Phytologist 207: 1075-1083.
Richter, I, Fidler A. 2015. Detection of marine microalgal biotoxins using bioassays based on functional expression of tunicate xenobiotic receptors in yeast. Toxicon 95:13-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2014.12.011
Sebastien A, Lester PJ, Hall RJ, Wang J, Moore NE, Gruber MAM. 2015. Invasive ants carry novel viruses in their new range and form reservoirs for a honeybee pathogen. Biol. Lett. 11: 20150610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0610
Taylor A, Burns KC. 2015. Epiphyte community development throughout tree ontogeny: an island ontogeny framework. Journal of Vegetation Science. Doi: 10.1111/jvs.12289
Wilkinson SP, Fisher PL, van Oppen MJH, Davy SK (2015) Intra-genomic variation in symbiotic dinoflagellates: recent divergence or recombination between lineages? BMC Evolutionary Biology 15:46.