2011 Best Student Paper Award Winner

The winner of the 2011 Best Student Paper Award is Lucas Parreiras from the Anderson and Kohn labs. Lucas’s paper entitled “Cellular effects and epistasis among three determinants of adaptation in experimental populations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae” appeared in the October issue of Eukaryotic Cell. Congratulations, Lucas!

The runners-up for the award are:

• Christopher Reaume (Sokolowski Lab): A natural genetic polymorphism affects retroactive interference in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the Royal Society B
• Steve Hill (Kotanen Lab): Phylogenetic structure predicts capitular damage to Asteraceae better than origin or phylogenetic distance to natives. Oecologia
• Meet Zandawala (Orchard Lab): Isolation and characterization of three transcript variants encoding the calcitonin-like peptide in the vector, Rhodnius prolixus. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology