Tansley Medal past winners

Winner:

Matthew Naish, Broodbank Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge, UK. Tansley insight: 'Bridging the gap: unravelling plant centromeres in the telomere-to-telomere era'.

Runners up:

• Xuan Du, Professor, College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, China. Tansley insight: 'The cellular RNA-dependent RNA polymerases in plants'.

• Julia K. Green, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona, USA. Tansley insight: 'The intricacies of vegetation responses to changing moisture conditions'.

• Bochen Jiang, Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Tansley insight: 'Light-induced cryptochrome 2 liquid–liquid phase separation and mRNA methylation'.

• Shan Li, Professor, College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, China. Tansley insight: 'Is auxin the key to improve crop nitrogen use efficiency for greener agriculture?'

• Yue Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Tansley insight: 'Climate feedback from plant physiological responses to increasing atmospheric CO2 in Earth system models'.

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Winner:

Martina Legris, Postdoctoral researcher, Centre for Integrative Genomics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Tansley insight: 'Light and temperature regulation of leaf morphogenesis in Arabidopsis'.

Runners up:

• Adrien Burlacot, Principle Investigator, Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, USA. Tansley insight: 'Quantifying the roles of algal photosynthetic electron pathways: a milestone towards photosynthetic robustness'.

• James Clark, Research Fellow, Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, UK. Tansley insight: 'Genome evolution in plants and the origins of innovation'.

• Jenn Coughlan, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Tansley insight: 'The role of conflict in shaping plant biodiversity'.

• Jiorgos Kourelis, Senior Postdoctoral Scientist, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK. Tansley insight: 'Interplay between cell-surface receptor and intracellular NLR-mediated immune responses'.

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Joint winners:

Leander D.L. Anderegg, Assistant Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, USA. Tansley insight: ‘Why can't we predict traits from the environment?’

Moi Exposito-Alonso, Carnegie Staff Associate at the Departments of Plant Biology and Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science and Assistant Professor (by courtesy) of Biology at Stanford University, USA. Tansley insight: ‘Understanding local plant extinctions before it’s too late: bridging evolutionary genomics with global ecology’.

Runners up:

• Y. Anny Chung, Haines Distinguished Assistant Professor, the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. Tansley insight: ‘The temporal and spatial dimensions of plant–soil feedbacks’. 

• J. Grey Monroe, Assistant Professor, the University of California Davis, USA. Tansley insight: ‘Potential and limits of (mal)adaptive mutation rate plasticity in plants’. 

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Joint winners:

Michał Bogdziewicz, Associate Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU), Poland. Tansley insight: 'How will global change affect plant reproduction? A framework for mast seeding trends'.

Anna T Trugman, Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Tansley insight: 'Integrating plant physiology and community ecology across scales through trait-based models to predict drought mortality'.

Finalists:

• Rebecca T Batsone, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Tansley insight: ‘Genomes within genomes: nested symbiosis and its implications for plant evolution’.

• Marcos Fernández-Martínez, Researcher, Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Barcelona, Spain. Tansley insight: ‘From atoms to ecosystems: elementome diversity meets ecosystem functioning'.

• Fanny E Hartmann, Associate Professor, University of Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France. Tansley insight: ‘Using structural variants to understand the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of fungal plant pathogens’.

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Winner:

Tommaso Jucker, NERC Independent Research Fellow and Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol, UK. Tansley insight: ‘Deciphering the fingerprint of disturbance on the three-dimensional structure of the world’s forests’.

Runners up:

• Lingfei Hu, Assistant Professor, Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, Zhejian University, China. Tansley insight: ‘Integration of multiple volatile cues into plant defense responses’.

• Petra Marhava, Researcher, Umea Plant Science Centre, University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden. Tansley insight: ‘Recent developments in the understanding of PIN polarity’.

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Joint winners:

Philippa Borrill, Lecturer, School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. Tansley insight: 'Blurring the boundaries between cereal crops and model plants'.

Kai Zhu, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. Tansley insight: 'Understanding forest dynamics by integrating age and environmental change'.

Runners up:

• Marjorie Lundgren, Lecturer in Plant Environmental Physiology, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at Lancaster Environment Centre, University of Lancaster, UK. Tansley insight: 'C₂ photosynthesis: a promising route towards crop improvement?'

• Renske Onstein, Head of Junior Research Group, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany. Tansley insight: 'Darwin’s second ‘abominable mystery’: trait flexibility as the innovation leading to angiosperm diversity'.

• Dongqing Xu, Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, at the College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, China. Tansley insight: 'COP1 and BBXs-HY5-mediated light signal transduction in plants'.

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Joint winners:

• Liana Burghardt, Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Science at Pennsylvania State University, USA. Tansley insight: 'Evolving together, evolving apart: Measuring the fitness of rhizobial bacteria in and out of symbiosis with leguminous plants'.

• Jana Sperschneider, ARC DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) fellow, Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Tansley insight: 'Machine learning in plant–pathogen interactions: empowering biological predictions from field-scale to genome-scale'.

Runners up:

• Charlotte Grossiord, Professor and group leader, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Switzerland. Tansley insight: 'Having the right neighbors: how tree species diversity modulates drought impacts on forests'.

• James Schnable, Charles O. Gardner Professor of Maize Quantitative Genetics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Tansley insight: 'Genes and gene models, an important distinction'.

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Winner:

Stella Cesari, of INRA, UMR-BGPI, Montpellier, France. Tansley insight: ‘Multiple strategies for pathogen perception by plant immune receptors’.

Runners up:

• Yangnan Gu, Tsinghua University, China. Tansley insight: 'Nuclear pore complex: a strategic platform to regulate cellular signaling'.

• Sean Michaletz, University of Arizona, USA. Tansley insight: 'Evaluating the kinetic basis of plant growth from organs to ecosystems'.

• Carla Staver, Yale University, USA. Tansley insight: 'Prediction and scale in savanna ecosystems'.

• Sambasivam Periyannan, CSIRO, Australia. Tansley insight: 'Sustaining global agriculture through rapid detection and deployment of genetic resistance to deadly crop diseases'.

• Emily Josephs, UC Davis, USA. Tansley insight: 'Determining the evolutionary forces shaping GxE'.

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Winner:

Etienne Laliberté, University of Montreal, Canada. Tansley insight: 'Below-ground frontiers in trait-based plant ecology'.

Runners up:

• Marie Barberon, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Tansley insight: 'The endodermis as a checkpoint for nutrients'.

• Charles W. Melnyk, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge, UK. Tansley insight: 'Connecting the plant vasculature to friend or foe'.

• Roberto Salguero-Gómez, University of Sheffield, UK. Tansley insight: 'Applications of the fast–slow continuum and reproductive strategy framework of plant life histories'.

• Benjamin Schwessinger, Australian National University, Australia. Tansley insight: 'Fundamental wheat stripe rust research in the 21st century'.

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Winner:

Alexander Jones, Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge, UK. Tansley insight: ‘A new look at stress: abscisic acid patterns and dynamics at high-resolution’.

Runners up:

• Jill Anderson, University of Georgia, USA. Tansley insight: 'Plant fitness in a rapidly changing world'.

• Gregory Crutsinger, University of British Columbia, Canada. Tansley insight: 'A community genetics perspective: opportunities for the coming decade'.

• Rosa Lozano-Durán, Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Tansley insight: 'Geminiviruses for biotechnology: the art of parasite taming'.

• Alberto Macho, Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Tansley insight: 'Subversion of plant cellular functions by bacterial type-III effectors: beyond suppression of immunity'.

• Elizabeth Pringle, University of Michigan, USA. Tansley insight: 'Integrating plant carbon dynamics with mutualism ecology'.

• Antia Rodriguez-Villalon, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland. Tansley insight: 'Wiring a plant: genetic networks for phloem formation in Arabidopsis thaliana roots'.

• Xuehua Zhong, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA. Tansley insight: 'Comparative epigenomics: a powerful tool to understand the evolution of DNA methylation'.

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Winner:

William Anderegg, Princeton University, USA. Minireview: 'Spatial and temporal variation in plant hydraulic traits and their relevance for climate change impacts on vegetation'.

Runners up:

• Stuart Campbell, University of Toronto, Canada. Minireview: 'Ecological mechanisms for the coevolution of mating systems and defence'.

• Pieter De Frenne, Ghent University, Belgium. Minireview: 'Innovative empirical approaches for inferring climate-warming impacts on plants in remote areas'.

• Jesse Hollister, University of Toronto, Canada. Minireview: 'Polyploidy: adaptation to the genomic environment'.

• Masayoshi Nakamura, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University, CA, USA. Minireview: 'Microtubule nucleating and severing enzymes for modifying microtubule array organization and cell morphogenesis in response to environmental cues'.

• Diane Saunders, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK. Minireview: 'Hitchhiker’s guide to multi-dimensional plant pathology'.

• Daniel Sloan, Colorado State University, USA. Minireview: 'Using plants to elucidate the mechanisms of cytonuclear co-evolution'.

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Joint winners:

Li-Qing Chen, Carnegie Institution, Stanford, USA. Minireview 'SWEET sugar transporters for phloem transport and pathogen nutrition'.

Jing-Ke Weng, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Minireview: 'The evolutionary paths towards complexity: a metabolic perspective'.

Runners up:

• Jacquelyn Gill, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. Minireview: 'Ecological impacts of the Later Quaternary megaherbivore extinctions'.

• Elizabeth Wolkovich, University of British Columbia, Canada. Minireview: 'Progress towards an interdisciplinary science of plant phenology: building predictions across space, time and species diversity'.

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Winner:

Robin Hopkins, The University of Texas at Austin, USA. Minireview: 'Reinforcement in plants'.

Runner up:

• Erik Verbruggen, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Minireview: 'Mycorrhizal fungal establishment in agricultural soils: factors determining inoculation success'.

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Winner:

Neil Dalchau, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK. Minireview: 'Understanding biological timing using mechanistic and black-box models'.

Runners up:

• Ive De Smet, University of Nottingham, UK. Minireview: 'Lateral Root Initiation: growing a new meristem goes through asymmetric cell division infancy'.

• Charles Price, University of Western Australia, Australia. Minireview: ' The structure, scaling and functional impacts of complex leaf venation networks'.

• Shiv Kale, Virginia Tech, USA. Minireview: 'Oomycete and fungal effector entry, a modern Trojan horse'.

• Simon Conn,  EMBO Laboratories, France. Minireview: 'Exploiting natural variation to uncover candidate genes that control element accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana'.

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Winner:

Frederic Lens, Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Research paper: 'Testing hypotheses that link wood anatomy to cavitation resistance and hydraulic conductivity in the genusAcer'.

Runners up:

• Francesco Licausi, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany. Minireview:  'Regulation of the molecular response to oxygen limitations in plants'.

• Younousse Saidi, University of Birmingham, UK. Minireview: 'Heat perception and signalling in plants: a tortuous path to thermotolerance'.

• Wei Ma, Michigan State University, USA. Minireview: 'Ca²⁺ conduction by plant cyclic nucleotide gated channels and associated signalling components in pathogen defense signal transduction cascades'.

• Eleanor Gilroy, Scottish Crop Research Institute, UK. Research paper: '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, Wake Forest University, USA. Minireview: 'Winter leaf reddening in ‘evergreen’ species'.

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Winner:

Steven Spoel, University of Edinburgh, UK. Minireview: 'Post-translational protein modification as a tool for transcription reprogramming'.

Runners up:

• Ward Capoen, John Innes Centre, UK. Minireview: 'Sesbania rostrata: a case study of natural variation in legume nodulation'.

• Colleen Iversen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. Minireview: 'Digging deeper: fine-root responses to rising atmospheric CO₂concentration in forested ecosystems'.

• Katherine McCulloh, Oregon State University, USA. Minireview: '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, University of Cambridge, UK. Minireview: 'Maternal control of Pol IV-dependent siRNAs in  Arabidopsis endosperm'.

• Nicolas Rouhier, INRA Nancy University, France. Minireview:  'Plant glutaredoxins: pivotal players in redox biology and iron­–sulphur center assembly'.

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