2019 PeerJ Award Winners
From Best Poster to Best Presentation, PeerJ Awards were won by students and early career researchers exhibiting rigorous scientific effort throughout 2019. The PeerJ Awards were offered at conferences and workshops around the globe in fields ranging from biomembranes to paleontology.
Many of the winners have shared their current and future research plans with us on the PeerJ blog. Their enthusiasm and love of science and research is truly inspiring! You can find these interviews linked to their names below.
Congratulations to all winners! — from, The PeerJ Team
Christiana McDonald-Spicer
Best Oral Presentation, International Biogeography Society, Jan 2019, Spain
César Alejandro Urbina-Blanco
Best Contribution, Transition Path Sampling Simulations via PyRETIS, March 2019, The Netherlands
Beata Mierzwa
Best Scientific Poster Prize, VIZBI Visualizing Biological Data, March 2019, Germany
Christina Ren
Future of Individualized Genomic Medicine, March 2019, United States
Danielle Quallich
Best Overall Presentation, Ohio Zebrafish Undergrad Research Conference, March 2019, United States
Serguei Rico-Esenaro
Best Contribution, 10th Mexican Congress on Coral Reefs, April 2019, Mexico
Delphine Angst
Best Oral Presentation, Assoc Paléontologique Française, April 2019, France
Caio Ferraz Cruz
Best Oral Presentation, Brazilian Congress of Biomechanics, May 2019, Brazil
Camille Huot
Best Contribution, 2nd Intl Conference on Holobionts, May 2019, Canada
Vanessa do Nascimento
Best Oral Communication, WSeS-8 Selenium Sulfur Redox & Catalysis, May 2019, Italy
Richard Howard
Best Talk, Progressive Palaeontology, June 2019, United Kingdom
Alice Pailhes
Best Presentation, Science of Magic Conference, July 2019, United States
Mathias Witte Paz
Best Presentation, BioVis at Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, July 2019, Switzerland
Mark Keller
Best Poster, BioVis at Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, July 2019, Switzerland
Laura Neumann
Best Presentation, MechanoChemBio, July 2019, Canada
Leanne Nagels
Best Contribution, Vocal Interaction between Humans Animals and Robots, Aug 2019, United Kingdom
Anna Zanoli
Best Contribution, Vocal Interaction between Humans Animals and Robots, Aug 2019, United Kingdom
Wesley Webb
Outstanding Oral Presentation, International Bioacoustics Council, Aug 2019, United Kingdom
Patricia Rita
Best Presentation, Intl Workshop on the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, Sept 2019, Germany
Allison Hsiang
Award for Open Data Analysis and Publication, Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Sept 2019, Germany
Fiona Pye
Award for Open Data Analysis and Publication, Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Sept 2019, Germany
Raquel Mateos
Research Award, CITA Food Science Congress, Sept 2019, Costa Rica
Martina Scacco
Award for Best Presentation, 20th Italian Congress of Ornithology, Sept 2019, Italy
Sara Cioccarelli
Award for Best Poster, 20th Italian Congress of Ornithology, Sept 2019, Italy
Romina Gisonno
Best Oral Presentation, Protein Biophysics at the end of the world, October 2019, Uruguay
Enzo Serniotti
Best Presentation, Third Argentine Congress of Malacology, Dec 2019, Argentina
Alan Zambrano
Best Poster, Argentine Workshop on Scientific Computing TACC, Dec 2019, Argentina
Paul Markus Müller
Best Poster, Biomembrane Days, Dec 2019, Germany
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