Pan-Am EvoDevo (PASEDB) Best Postdoctoral Oral Presentation Award

2022 Recipient Matthew Johnson

Postdoctoral researchers whose abstracts are accepted for a talk at the Annual PASEDB meetings will be considered for the Emerging Leaders 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. The list of speakers will reflect the diversity within the Society, including gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic status, physical ability, type of institution, geographic location, and research question/organism. 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
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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