Pan-Am EvoDevo (PASEDB) Best Postdoctoral Oral Presentation Award
Postdoctoral researchers whose abstracts are accepted for a talk at the Annual PASEDB meetings will be considered for the PASEDB Postdoctoral Award for Creativity in EvoDevo. The Society will present a biannual award to a postdoctoral researcher whose work exemplifies the powerful integrative nature of EvoDevo studies by bringing a fresh new perspective to long-standing questions in biology. A cash award and a two-years PASEDB membership will be given.
Selection Criteria
Expanding the breadth of the field with some combination of these qualities/characteristics:
• new twist on classic question
• intellectual innovation
• technique innovation
• significant new taxonomic coverage
• exceptional experimental skill
Best Postdoctoral Oral Presentation Award Recipients:
2022: Matthew Johnson, Princeton University
2019: Maryna P. Lesoway, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2017: Christina Zakas, North Carolina State University
2015: Jessica Grey, Oklahoma State University
Best Graduate Oral Presentation Award Recipients:
2019: Vikram Chandra, Rockefeller University
Selection Criteria
Expanding the breadth of the field with some combination of these qualities/characteristics:
• new twist on classic question
• intellectual innovation
• technique innovation
• significant new taxonomic coverage
• exceptional experimental skill
Best Postdoctoral Oral Presentation Award Recipients:
2022: Matthew Johnson, Princeton University
2019: Maryna P. Lesoway, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2017: Christina Zakas, North Carolina State University
2015: Jessica Grey, Oklahoma State University
Best Graduate Oral Presentation Award Recipients:
2019: Vikram Chandra, Rockefeller University