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EES Young Researcher Prizes 2010
Applications for the 2010 EES Young Researcher Prizes for best Master/Diploma and PhD research in the fields of Evolution, Ecology and Systematics at the LMU are now openned. Present your research in a brief talk (10-15 minutes) and win 1000 € (for the two best Master/Diploma students) or 1500 € (for the two best PhD students).
When: Presentations will be held during the 4th Annual EES Conference on the 12th and 13th of October 2010.
Eligibility:
- 1) Master/Diploma students who handed in their thesis between August 1st 2009 and September 2nd 2010;
- 2) PhD students who handed in their thesis between August 1st 2009 and September 1st 2010 or PhD students in their final year (that is, started before October 1st 2008)
How to apply: By September 1, send an email containing a brief CV, the abstract of your talk and a short statement from your supervisor confirming that you are eligible for the prize to hense"at"bio.lmu.de or duchen"at"bio.lmu.de
Download here the flyer: Media:EES_Prizes_2010.pdf
Prizewinners 2009
Winfried Hense for his PhD thesis
- Title PhD Thesis: "X chromosome inactivation during Drosophila spermatogenesis"
- See http://evol.bio.lmu.de/people/group_parsch/hense_w/index.html
- Summary thesis
Elisabeth Bolund for her PhD thesis
- Title PhD Thesis: "Condition dependence and fitness consequences of sexual traits in Zebra Finches"
- See http://www.orn.mpg.de/mitarbeiter/bolund.html
- Summary thesis
Pablo Duchen for his Master's thesis
- Title Master Thesis: "The evolution of Cayaponia (Cucurbitaceae): Repeated shifts from bat to bee pollination and long-distance dispersal to Africa 2-6 million years ago"
- See http://evol.bio.lmu.de/people/group_stephan/duchen_p/index.html
- Summary thesis
Rebecca Meredith for her Master's thesis
- Title Master Thesis: "Functional diversity measures and null models describe assembly patterns in grassland communities"
- See http://www.eeslmu.de/eeswiki/index.php?title=Rebecca_Meredith
- Summary thesis
Prizewinners 2008
Silke Steiger for her PhD thesis
- Title Phd Thesis: Evolution of Avain Olfaction
- See http://www.orn.mpg.de/mitarbeiter/steiger.html
- Summary thesis http://orn.mpg.de/~steiger/ApplicationBestPhDSteiger.pdf
Stephan Hutter for his PhD thesis
- Title PhD thesis: Natural variation in Drosophila melanogaster: A survey of genome-wide DNA
sequence polymorphism and gene expression diversity, and the development of new bioinformatic tools.
- Full thesis and Summary: http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7418/
- CV and List of Publications: http://zi.bio.lmu.de/evol/CV/Huttercurriculumvitae.htm
Ariane Mutzel for her Diploma thesis
- Diploma Thesis: Individual variation in exploration by house sparrows: Is there a hormonal
basis to personality differences?
- Thesis summary, CV & Publications: http://www.orn.mpg.de/mitarbeiter/mutzel.html
Robert Piskol for his Diploma thesis
- Diploma Thesis: Evolution of RNA Structure in Introns
- Thesis summary: http://evol.bio.lmu.de/CV/PiskolThesisAbstract.pdf
- CV: http://robertpiskol.de/data/Piskol_CV.pdf
For the 2008 application instructions, please go to EES Prize Rules 2008
Prizewinners 2007
Alexander Varzari from Moldova won one of the prizes for his PhD thesis. He is in Munich in November and December 2007 and will present his work on the 6th of December.
The other prizewinners 2007: Steffen Beisswanger, Andrea Riebler and Stephan Behl. They gave a presentation on the First EES Conference in October 2007.
