Tansley Medal Past Winners

Tansley Medal 2022 winners

It is our great pleasure to announce that the 2022 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for Excellence in Plant Science has been awarded jointly to Leander Anderegg and Moi Exposito-Alonso.

 

Read about the winners and runners up here.

 

Leander Anderegg
Leander Anderegg
Moi Exposito-Alonso
Moi Exposito-Alonso

Hear from recent Tansley Medal winners in our series of New Phytologist Now webinars. 


Tansley Medal 2021 winners

It is our great pleasure to announce that the 2021 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for Excellence in Plant Science has been awarded jointly to Michal Bogdziewicz and Anna T Trugman.

 

Read about the winners and runners up here.

 

Anna T Trugman
Anna T Trugman
Michal Bogdziewicz
Michal Bogdziewicz

Watch Anna and Michal'New Phytologist Now webinars where they talk about their research 

 

 


Tansley Medal 2020 winner

We are delighted to announce that the 2020 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for Excellence in Plant Science was awarded to Tommaso Jucker of the University of Bristol, UK. Tommaso's Tansley insight is titled 'Deciphering the fingerprint of distubrance on the three-dimensional structure of the world's forests'.

 

Tommaso Jucker
Tommaso Jucker

 

We also congratulate two outstanding runners-up:

 

Read the Editorial by Slater and Dolan announcing the 2020 Tansley Medal winner.

 

The judging panel for the 2020 competition was comprised of New Phytologist Editors Amy Austin, Liam Dolan, and Elena Kramer.


Tansley Medal 2019 winners

We are delighted to announce two winners for this year's New Phytologist Tansley Medal for Excellence in Plant Science! The judges voted to award two Tansley Medals to:

 

Philippa Borrill      

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Kai Zhu

 

We also congratulate three runners up:

 

The judging panel was comprised of New Phytologist Editors Prof. Amy Austin, Prof. Liam Dolan, and Prof. Elena Kramer.

Read the Editorial by Lennon & Dolan, The New Phytologist Tansley Medal 2019 

 


Tansley Medal 2018 winners

We are very pleased to celebrate two winners for this year's New Phytologist Tansley Medal for Excellence in Plant Science! The judges voted to award the prize jointly to:

 

Liana Burghardt

Jana Sperschneider

 

We also congratulate two researchers who have received honourable mentions:

 

The judging panel was comprised of New Phytologist Editors Prof. Amy Austin, Prof. Liam Dolan, Prof. Elena Kramer, and Prof. Natalia Requena.

Read the Editorial by Lennon & Dolan The New Phytologist Tansley Medal 2018 – Liana Burghardt and Jana Sperschneider

 


Tansley Medal 2017 winner

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2017 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for Excellence in Plant Science. This year, the judges have decided to award the Medal to Stella Cesari, of INRA, UMR-BGPI, Montpellier, France. Stella’s Tansley insight is titled ‘Multiple strategies for pathogen perception by plant immune receptors

 

Stella Cesari, winner of the 2017 New Phytologist Tansley Medal

Stella Cesari, winner of the 2017 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science

The quality of finalists this year was very high. The details of the runners up and their Tansley insights are below:

 

The judging panel was comprised of New Phytologist Editors Prof. Amy Austin, Prof. Liam Dolan, Prof. Alistair Hetherington, Prof. Elena Kramer, and Prof. Natalia Requena.

Read the Editorial by Lennon and Dolan, the New Phytologist Tansley Medal 2017 

 

2016

Winner: Etienne Laliberté - Below-ground frontiers in trait-based plant ecology

Read the Editorial by Sarah Lennon and Liam Dolan.

Watch an interview with Etienne Laliberté:

 

Runners up:

 


2015

Winner: Alexander Jones - A new look at stress: abscisic acid patterns and dynamics at high-resolution

Read the Editorial by Sarah Lennon and Liam Dolan.

 

 

Runners up:

 


2014

Winner: William Anderegg: Spatial and temporal variation in plant hydraulic traits and their relevance for climate change impacts on vegetation

Read the Editorial by Sarah Lennon and Liam Dolan.

 

 

Runners up:

Stuart Campbell: Ecological mechanisms for the coevolution of mating systems and defence

Pieter De Frenne: Innovative empirical approaches for inferring climate-warming impacts on plants in remote areas

Jesse Hollister: Polyploidy: adaptation to the genomic environment

Masayoshi Nakamura: Microtubule nucleating and severing enzymes for modifying microtubule array organization and cell morphogenesis in response to environmental cues

Diane Saunders: Hitchhiker’s guide to multi-dimensional plant pathology

Daniel Sloan: Using plants to elucidate the mechanisms of cytonuclear co-evolution

 


2013

Joint winners:

 

Li-Qing Chen, 2013 Tansley Medal WinnerJing-Ke Weng, 2013 Tansley Medal Winner Li-Qing Chen: SWEET sugar transporters for phloem transport and pathogen nutrition

Jing-Ke Weng: The evolutionary paths towards complexity: a metabolic perspective

Read the Editorial by Liam Dolan.

Read the interview with Li-Qing Chen.

Read the interview with Jing-Ke Weng.

 

 

 

Runners up:

Jacquelyn Gill: Ecological impacts of the Later Quaternary megaherbivore extinctions

Elizabeth Wolkovich: Progress towards an interdisciplinary science of plant phenology: building predictions across space, time and species diversity

 


2012

Winner: Robin Hopkins: Reinforcement in plants. Robin Hopkins, 2012 Tansley Medal Winner

Read the Editorial by Liam Dolan.

Read the interview with Robin Hopkins.

 

Runner up:

Erik Verbruggen, Mycorrhizal fungal establishment in agricultural soils: factors determining inoculation success.

 

 


2011

Neil Dalchau - 2011 Tansley Medal winnerWinner: Neil Dalchau: Understanding biological timing using mechanistic and black-box models.

Read the Editorial by Liam Dolan

 

Runners up:

Ive De Smet, Lateral Root Initiation: growing a new meristem goes through asymmetric cell division infancy

Charles Price, The structure, scaling and functional impacts of complex leaf venation networks

Shiv Kale, Oomycete and fungal effector entry, a modern Trojan horse

Simon Conn,  Exploiting natural variation to uncover candidate genes that control element accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana

 


2010

Winner: Frederic Lens: Testing hypotheses that link wood anatomy to cavitation resistance and hydraulic conductivity in the genusAcer

Read the Editorial by Ian Woodward and Alistair Hetherington.

 

Runners up:

Francesco Licausi, Regulation of the molecular response to oxygen limitations in plants

Younousse Saidi, Heat perception and signalling in plants: a tortuous path to thermotolerance

Wei Ma, Ca2+ conduction by plant cyclic nucleotide gated channels and associated signalling components in pathogen defense signal transduction cascades

Eleanor Gilroy, CMPG1-dependent cell death follows perception of diverse pathogen elicitors at the host plasma membrane and is suppressed by Phytophthora infestans RXLR effector AVR3a

Nicole Hughes, Winter leaf reddening in ‘evergreen’ species

 


2009

Winner: Steven Spoel: Post-translational protein modification as a tool for transcription reprogramming

Read the Editorial by Ian Woodward and Alistair Hetherington.

 

Runners up:

Ward Capoen, Sesbania rostrata: a case study of natural variation in legume nodulation

Colleen Iversen, Digging deeper: fine-root responses to rising atmospheric CO2concentration in forested ecosystems

Katherine McCulloh, Moving water well: comparing hydraulic efficiency in twigs and trunks of coniferous, ring-porous, and diffuse-porous saplings from temperate and tropical forests

Rebecca Mosher, Maternal control of Pol IV-dependent siRNAs in  Arabidopsis endosperm

Nicolas Rouhier, Plant glutaredoxins: pivotal players in redox biology and iron­–sulphur center assembly