By Gaytha Langlois
Jahn-Bovee Presentation Award
2024 Jahn-Bovee Awardees for the best poster and talk presentations by ISoP students. From Left to Right: 3rd place poster -Wesley DeMontigny; 2nd place poster – Tristan Henderson; 1st place poster – Jens Wira. 3rd place talk – Nicole Coots; 2nd place talk – Tony Bonacolta; 1st place talk – Anežka Konupková
Recipients of the Jahn-Bovee Presentation Award, established to honor Theodore Jahn and Eugene Bovee, were celebrated at the Annual ISOP Meeting in Seattle, OR, USA. Judges noted the high quality of presentations and posters.
Presentation Awardees:
1st Place. Anežka Konupková “Derlin-like Proteins are Essential for Chloroplast Function in Euglena gracilis” (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic).
2nd Place. Anthony Bonacolta. “Targeted Genomics Reveal the Diversity and Potential Ecological Impacts of Novel Apicomplexan Lineages” (University of Miami, USA).
3rd Place. Nicole Coots. “The Symbiotic Protists of Reticulitermes tibialis are Unexpectedly Diverse: Implications for Symbiont Inheritance and Coevolution” (School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, USA).
Poster Awardees:
1st Place. Jens Wira. “A Look at Gambierdiscus Swimming Behavior” (Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University System of Maryland, Baltimore, USA).
2nd Place. Tristan Henderson. “The Orb: Aggregative Behavior and the Hoarding of Particles by Thecamoeba homeri” (Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, USA).
3rd Place. Wesley DeMontigny. “The Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genomes of Amoebophrya sp. Ex. Karlodinium veneficum” (Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, Hyattsville, MD 20783, USA).
Hunter Achievement Award
The Hutner Achievement Award was established to honor Dr. Seymour H. Hutner. It is presented annually to a Society member within 15 years of their PhD who has made outstanding contributions in protistology. Recipients receive a cash prize and are invited to present a Plenary Talk at an annual meeting of the Society.
The Hutner Achievement Awardee for 2024 was Dr. Shan Gao, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, recognized for his/her excellent research on the regulation mechanism of DNA N6-methyladenine (6mA) using Tetrahymena as a model organism for epigenetic studies.
William Trager Award for Outstanding Paper
The William Trager Award for Outstanding Paper, named to honor Dr. William Trager, in the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology every two years is decided by the Editorial Board. This year, a paper by Y. Zhou, L. Fu, K. Mochizuki, J. Xiong, W. Miao, and G. Wang, “Absolute quantification of chromosome copy numbers in the polyploid macronucleus of Tetrahymena thermophila at the single-cell level” (vol. 69, e12907, 2022), was recognized as the most cited article of 2022.
