Best poster awards at the ESF-funded conference on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics

Best poster awards at the ESF-funded conference on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics

eefg2013 jana jenny2At the "Frontiers in Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics" conference in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands, from 26-30 May 2013, two young scientists of our lab were awarded poster prizes for their presentations. Jana Asselman presented a poster entitled "Unraveling mode of actions and toxin profiles with high throughput microarrays: a case study in Daphnia exposed to different cyanobacterial stressors." and was awarded the first prize as well as €1000. Jennifer Hochmuth won the second prize as well as €600 with her poster entitled "Micro-evolutionary response in a natural Daphnia magna population under Cu and Zn stress". The conference was funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and gave an overview of the most significant achievements within the ESF-EUROEEFG project. More than 100 delegates attended the conference and about 40 posters were presented.