New Phytologist Foundation travel grants

46th NPS: Stomata

• Nattiwong Pankasem, University of California, San Diego

• Jodie Armand, University of Sheffield

• Hoang Trang Dang, ETH Zurich

• Danilo Daloso, Federal University of Ceara

• Ido Nir, Volcani Institute

• Ashley Pridgeon, University of Bristol

• Pulimamidi Bharath, University of Hyderabad

• Sheikh Mansoor, Jeju National University

Poster prize winner:

• Xin Cheng, University of Bern
  Anisocytic stomatal development in the succulent model Kalanchoë laxiflora

Runners up:

• Hongyuan Zhang, ETH Zurich
  What do we learn from 300K leaf epidermal segments?

• Shanshuo Zhu, Ruhr University Bochum
  Cell-type specific autophagy regulates the dynamics of Pseudomonas syringae infection in Arabidopsis

• Trang Dang, ETH Zurich
  Molecular evolution of β-amylase 1 shaped guard cell starch dynamics across land plant species

45th NPS: Ecological and evolutionary consequences of plant–fungal invasions

• Silmar Primieri, Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina

• Silvina Garcia, Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad de la Republica

• Anna Abrahão, Universidade Federal do Ceará

• Valeria Faggioli, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria

• Jessica Duchicela, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas-ESPE

• Valentina Borda, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

• Li Yan, University of Western Australia

• Victoria Infante, University of Arizona

• Eduardo Choreño-Parra, University of California, Irvine

• Marina Omacini, Universidad de Buenos Aires

• Baptiste Wijas, University of Miami

• Siim-Kaarel Sepp, University of Tartu

• Alex Siggers, Colorado State University

• Deborah Louisa Narh Mensah, CSIR - Food Research Institute, Ghana

Poster prize winner:

• Cecelia Stokes [#3]
  Can mushroom toxins enable a biological invasion? Testing enemy release and novel weapons hypotheses with invasive death caps

Runners up:

• Anna Abrahão [#1]
  Direct-seeding restoration is associated with acquisitive nutrient-use and -acquisition traits

• Ian Acuña [#9]
  Rooted in Invasion: Unraveling fungal partnerships in Poa annua's Antarctic conquest

Plants, People, Planet Symposium

• Ioannis Anestis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

• Sarah Christofides, Cardiff University

• Anna Gardner, University of Birmingham

• Maria del Pilar Herrera Egoavil, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

• Peter Karssemeijer, Wageningen University and Research

• Kumar Manish, University of Delhi

• Zoë Migicovsky, Dalhousie University

• Javier Alberto Miret Bario, University of Reading

• Lauren Mohn

• Gemma Muller, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

• Charlotte Phillips, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

• Jemma Roberts, University of Warwick

• Benjamin Thomas, Queen's University

• Jessica Turner-Skoff, The Morton Arboretum

• Adam von Haden, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Hafiz Muhammed Wariss, Kunming Institute of Botany

• Tara Wight, The University of Edinburgh

Poster prizes: 

• Winner: Jessica Turner-Skoff  

• Runner-up: Eveline Oranje

Selected talk winners: 

• Adriane Tobias and Zoë Migicovsky

44th NPS: Determinants of tropical vegetation and structure

• Mohammed Armani, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden- Chinese Academy of Sciences

• Emmanuel Baidoo, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

• Monique Botha, University of Pretoria

• Baomalgre Amelie Bougma, INERA

• Moabe Fernandes, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana

• Roël Dire Houdanon, University of Parakou

• Samantha-Leigh Jamison, University of Pretoria

• Atul Joshi, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

• Grace Jopaul Loubota Panzou, University of Exeter

• Caleb Melenya, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

• Samuel Mesele, Federal University Of Agriculture Abeokuta

• Jamie Wright, University of Oregon

Poster prizes: 

• Winner: Mohammed Armani       

• Runners-up: Monique Botha and George Ametsitsi

43rd NPS: Interaction networks and trait evolution

• Carolina Almeida, University of São Paulo 

• Ana Paula Aprígio Assis, University of São Paulo 

• Carina Baskett, IST Austria

• Bernat Bramon Mora, University of Canterbury

• François Duchenne, French National Natural History Museum (MNHN) 

• Katherine Eisen, Cornell University 

• Georgia Hernandez, University of Connecticut

• Liz Milla, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

• Quint Rusman, Wageningen University 

• Cecilia Siliansky de Andreazzi, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) 

Poster prizes: 

• Winner: Quint Rusman

• Runners-up: Katherine Barragan-Fonseca and Florian Etl

42nd NPS: The biology of wood: from cells to trees

• Kelly Balmant, University of Florida

• Claire Depardieu, Laval University

• Melissa Enright, Northern Arizona University 

• Mrs Ana Fanton-Borges, Yale University 

• Melis Kucukoglu, University of Helsinki/Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE)

• Jeffrey Lauder, University of California/Merced

• Demetrius Lira Martins, Imperial College London

• Jan Lyczakowski, University of Cambridge

• Yaseen Mottiar, University of British Columbia 

• Beth Roskilly, University of Montana

• Aleksandra Slupianek, University of Wroclaw

• Jin Zhang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• Meixia Zhang, China Agricultural University 

Poster prizes: 

• Winner: Jan Lyczakowski

• Runners-up: Kelly Balmant and Masaki Kobayashi

41st NPS: Plant sciences for the future

• Mingkee Achom, University of Warwick

• Marc Behr, Université catholique de Louvain

• Lidia Blanco Sánchez, CSIC (Spanish National Research Center Council)

• Cecilia Brunetti, National Research Council of Italy (CNR)

• Joyshree Chanam, National Centre for Biological Sciences

• Charlotte Grossiord, Los Alamos National Laboratory

• Nadia Maaroufi, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

• Julieta Mallerman, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA)

• Candelas Paniagua, University of Leeds

• Diana Esperanza Ramirez Garces, The Australian National University 

• Stephanie Smith, SLCU/University of Cambridge

• Shihao Su, Nagoya University 

• Diane Wang, University at Buffalo

Poster prizes: 

• Winner: Putri Prasetyaningrum         

• Runner-up: Robert Koller

40th NPS: Plant epigenetics – from mechanisms to ecological relevance

• Estanislao Burgos, CICVyA INTA Castelar, Argentina

• Colin Clairet, INRA BIOGER, France

• Jack Colicchio, University of California Berkeley, USA

• Hanne De Kort, University of Leuven, Belgium

• Maria Belen De Luca, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Hana Dvoráková, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic

• Jacob Herman, University of Chicago, USA

• Lucie Huyghe, McGill University, Canada

• Ritushree Jain, The University of Sheffield, UK

• Alim Junaid, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India

• Atreyee Kundu, Presidency University, India

• Benjamin Liégard, INRA, France

• Jeannie Mounger, University of South Florida, USA

• Javier Puy, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic

• Cristina Rosique-Esplugas, University of Edinburgh, UK

• Sofia van Moorsel, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Poster prizes:

• Winner: Sofia van Moorsel

• Runner up: Rebecca Kartzinel

39th NPS: Trait covariation – structural and functional relationships in plant ecology

• Nur Bahar, The Australian National University, Australia

• Lucas Damián Gorné, IMBiV CONICET-UNC, Argentina

• Ellie Goud, Cornell University, USA

• Ruth Kelly, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

• Leander Love-Anderegg, University of Washington, USA

• Julie Messier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada

• Laura Reinelt, Lancaster University, UK

• Roberto Salguero-Gomez, The University of Sheffield, UK

• Alexey Shiklomanov, Boston University, USA

• Nicholas Smith, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA

Poster prizes:

• Winner: Teresa Rosas

• Runner up: Demetrius Martins

38th NPS: Colonization of the terrestrial environment 2016

• David Bell, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Elisabeth Biersma, British Antarctic Survey/University of Cambridge, UK

• Robert Caine, University of Sheffield, UK

• Ying Chang, Oregon State University, USA

• David Draper Munt, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Karl Fetter, University of Vermont, USA

• Le Li, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research - CAS, China

• Scott McAdam, University of Tasmania, Australia

• Mark Puttick, University of Bristol, UK

• William Rimington, Imperial College/RBG Kew/NHM, UK

• Eleanor Vesty, University of Birmingham, UK

Poster prizes

Winner: Katie Field

Runners-up: Elise Biersma and Alexander Hetherington

37th NPS: Plant developmental evolution

• Gwen Davis, University of Cambridge, UK

• Nicola Illing, University of Cape Town, South Africa

• Aaron Leichty, University of Pennsylvania, USA

• Hao Li, Fudan University, China

• Irene Liao, Duke University, USA

• Leandro Lucero, Instituto de Agrobiotecnologia del Litoral, Argentina

• Yichun Qiu, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Shihao Su, Sun Yat-sen University, China

• Xiaofeng Yin, The University of Tokyo, Japan

• Teng Zhang, University of Helsinki, Finland

• Yafei Zhao, University of Helsinki, Finland

• Jinshun Zhong, University of Vermont, USA

36th NPS: Cell biology at the plant-microbe interface

• Kyaw Aung, Michigan State University, USA

• Andreas Keymer, University of Munich (LMU), Germany

• Ryohei Thomas Nakano, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany

• Martina Beck, INRA-CNRS, France

• Michaela Kopischke, The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK

• Helen Pennington, Imperial College London, UK

• Guillaume Robin, INRA, France

• Elysa Overdijk, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

• Eunsook Park, University of California, Davis, USA

• Devanand Bondage, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

• Hannah Kuhn, RWTH Aachen, Germany

• Katherine Scheibel, University of California, Berkeley, USA

• Charikleia Schoina, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

• Remco Stam, Technische Universität München, Germany

• Florian Veillet, University of Poitiers, France

• Marco Giovannetti, University of Turin, Italy

• Rumana Keyani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan

• Timothy Lo, University of Toronto, Canada

Poster prizes

Winner: Libera Lo Presti, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany

Runners-up: Kasia Dinkeloo, Virginia Tech, USA, and Guillaume Robin, INRA, France

35th NPS: The genomes of forest trees: new frontiers of forest biology

• Amanda De La Torre, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Sweden

• Dejuan Euring, Büsgen-Institut, Germany

• Karl Fetter, University of Vermont, USA

• Elisabeth Fitzek, The Morton Arboretum, USA

• Brandon Lind, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

• Ian MacLachlan, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Geneviève Parent, Université Laval, Canada

• Ben Potter, University of Auckland, New Zealand

• Julia Quintana Gonzalez, Helsinki University, Finland

• Alison Dawn Scott, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

• Megan Supple, Australian National University, Australia

• Elizabeth Trippe, University of Georgia, USA

Poster prizes

Winners: Geneviève Parent, Université Laval, Canada, and Barnabas Daru, University of Pretoria, South Africa

34th NPS: Systems biology and ecology of CAM plants

• Paul Abraham, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

• Juan Beltran, University of Oxford, UK

• Erin Casey, Newcastle University, UK

• Catherine Cole, Appalachian State University, USA

• Jack Davies, University of Liverpool, UK

• Henrique De Paoli, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

• Travis Garcia, University of Nevada, USA

• Bruno Gobara, University of São Paulo, Brazil

• Lillian Hancock, Brown University, USA

• Karolina Heyduk, University of Georgia, USA

• Emily Kuzmick, Ohio University, USA

• Jamie Males, University of Cambridge, UK

• Paulo Mioto, University of São Paulo, Brazil

• Abigail Moore, Brown University, USA

• Nick Owen, University of Cambridge, UK

• Paula Pereira, University of São Paulo, Brazil

• Jacob Vogenberg, University of California at Riverside, USA

Poster prizes

Winner: Juan Beltran, University of Oxford, UK

Runners-up: Paul Abraham, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA, and Erin Casey, Newcastle University, UK

33rd NPS: Networks of Power and Influence: ecology and evolution of symbioses between plants and mycorrhizal fungi

• Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

• Mohammad Bahram, Tartu University, Estonia

• Andrea Berruti, National Research Council, Italy

• Synnøve Botnen, University of Oslo, Norway

• Isabel Ceballos, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Columbia

• Maíra  de Freitas Pereira, INRA Nancy, France

• Cristhian Fernandez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Columbia

• Ivan Fernandez Lopez, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

• Katie Field, University of Sheffield, UK

• Nina Gerlach, University of Cologne, Germany

• Nicole Hynson, University of Hawaii, USA

• Wei-Han Lim, University of Western Australia, Australia

• Laura Martínez-Garcia, Algoma University, Canada

• Stephen Muddimer, University of Sheffield, UK

• Suzanne Orchard, University of Western Australia, Australia

• Nadia Soudzilovskaia, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

• Elisa Taschen, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, France

• Adrien Taudiere, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, France

• Rafael Valadares, University of São Paulo, Brazil

• Graham  Zemunik, University of Western Australia, Australia

Poster prizes

Winner: Tania Wyss, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Runners-up: Lena Neuenkamp, University of Tartu, Estonia; Tessa Camenzind, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Katie Field, University of Sheffield, UK

32nd NPS: Plant interactions with other organisms: molecules, ecology and evolution

• Caitlin Burns, University of Warwick, UK

• Nicolas Cecchini, The University of Chicago, USA

• Tamara Corcobado, University of Extremadura, Spain

• Lucas Daurelio, IBR-CONICET, Argentina

• Ivan Fernandez -Lopez, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Spain

• Kiran Gadhave, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

• Mickael Gaillard, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

• Benjamin Gourion, ISV-CNRS, France

• Carolin Heck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

• Mary Jamieson, University of Wisconsin, USA

• Mercedes Keller, IFEVA - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Ivana Kraiselburd, IBR, Argentina

• Daniel Maag, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

• Ian Major, Michigan State University, USA

• Javier Moreno, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina

• Marina Nadal, University of Cambridge, UK

• Gerardo Nunez, University of Florida, USA

• Bridget Piculell, University of Mississippi, USA

• Carolina Quintero, CONICET-INIBIOMA, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina

• Megan Rua, University of Mississippi, USA

• Klaus Schlaeppi, Agroscope, Switzerland

• Kaori Tanaka, Okayama University, Japan

• Madlen Vetter, University of Chicago, USA

• Lauren Waller, University of Montana, USA

Poster prizes

Winners: Luis Ignacio Pérez, IFEVA - Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET, Argentina, and Serena Thomson, University of Warwick, UK

Runners-up: Ruth Campe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Kiran Gadhave, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; Mickaël Gaillard, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Laura Martínez, IFEVA - Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET, Argentina; and Hao Xu,University of Alberta, Canada

31st NPS: Orchid symbioses: models for evolutionary ecology

• Hendrik Breitkopf, University of Potsdam, Germany

• Elodie Chapurlat, Uppsala University, Sweden

• Enrico Ercole, University of Turin, Italy

• Karin Gross, University of Zurich, Switzerland

• Nina Hobbhahn, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

• Adam Karremans, Leiden University / University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica

• Florent Martos, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

• Jane Oja, University of Tartu, Estonia

• Carlos Eduardo Pereira Nunes, State University of Campinas - Unicamp, Brazil

• Fabio Pinheiro, Instituto de Botanica, Brazil

• Karen Robbirt, University of East Anglia, UK

• Julienne Marie-Isabelle Schiebold, University of Bayreuth, Germany

• Tamara Tešitelová, Faculty of Science; University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic

• Rafael Valadares, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil

Poster prizes

Winner: Florent Martos, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

Runners-up: Karin Gross, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Ursula Jaros, University of Salzburg, Austria, and Rafael Valadares, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

30th NPS: Immunomodulation by plant-associated organisms

• Stella Cesari, INRA, Montpellier, France

• Yasin Dagdas, University of Exeter, UK

• J. Mitch Elmore, University of California-Davis, USA

• Martha Giraldo, Kansas State University, USA

• Sandra Goritschnig, University of California-Berkeley, USA

• Joanna Jelenska, University of Chicago, USA

• David Joly, Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Canada

• Anja Kombrink, Wageningen University, the Netherlands

• Amy Lee, University of Toronto, Canada

• Hazel McLellan, University of Dundee, UK

• Benjamin Petre, INRA, Nancy, France

• William Stork, Stanford University, USA

Poster prizes

Winners: Jeff Anderson, University of Missouri, USA; Stella Cesari, INRA, Montpellier, France and Magdalena Krzymowska, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Poland.

29th NPS: Stomata 2012

• Caspar Chater, University of Sheffield, UK

• Graham Dow, Stanford University, USA

• Sanna Ehonen, University of Helsinki, Finland

• Gustavo Gudesblat, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Cesar Milstein, Argentina

• Gilor Kelly, A.R.O, The Volcani Center, Israel

• Ionna Kostaki, University of Bristol, UK

• Tobias Maierhofer, University Würzburg, Germany

• Scott McAdam, University of Tasmania, Australia

• Mahsa Movahedi, University of Sheffield, UK

• Paul Nabity, University of Illinois, USA

• Florent Pantin, INRA, Montpellier, France

• Lei Shen, Lancaster University, UK

• Robert Stevenson, University of California-Berkeley, USA

• Yizhou Wang, University of Glasgow, UK

• Xiang Zhao, Henan University, China

Poster prizes

Winner: Scott McAdam, University of Tasmania, Australia

Runners-up: Deirdre McLachlan, University of Bristol, UK; Florent Pantin, INRA, Montpellier, France.

28th NPS: Functions and ecology of the plant microbiome

• Roeland Berendsen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

• Alyssa Carrell, University of California, Merced, USA

• Lilia Costa Carvalhais, The University of Queensland, Australia

• Maren Friesen, University of Southern California, USA

• Cara Haney, MGH/Harvard University, USA

• Joshua Herr, Pennsylvania State University, USA

• Sur Herrera Paredes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

• Dorothea Meldau, MPI Chemical Ecology, Germany

• Lucas William Mendes. Netherlands Institute of Ecology, The Netherlands

• Rodica Pena, University of Goettingen, Germany

• Jonathan Plett, INRA-Nancy, France

• Mitja Remus-Emsermann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

• Rebekah Robinson, Rothamsted Research, UK

• Nadine Strehmel, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Germany

• Andrzej Tkacz, John Innes Centre, UK

• Maggie Wagner, Duke University, USA

• Naupaka Zimmerman, Stanford University, USA

Poster prizes

Winner: Mitja Remus-Emsermann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Runners-up: Dorothea Meldau, MPI Chemical Ecology, Germany and Kalliope Papadopoulou, University of Thessaly, Greece

27th NPS: Stoichiometric flexibility in terrestrial ecosystems under global change

• Vidya Appukuttan Suseela, Purdue University, USA

• Corina Buendia Grigoriu, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany

• Yolima Carrillo, University of Wyoming, USA

• Sarah Dale, University of Lancaster, UK

• Daniel Goll, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany

• Mary Heskel, Columbia University, USA

• Rachel Marshall, University of Aberdeen, UK

• Albert Rivas-Ubach, CSIC-CREAF, Spain

• Luciola Santos Lannes, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

• Seeta Sistla, UC Santa Barbara, USA

• Anthony Walker, University of Sheffield, UK

• Shuang Xiang, Chengdu Institute of Biology, CAS, China

• Qiang Yu, Institute of Applied Ecology, CAS, China

• Alla Yurova, Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russia

Poster prizes

Winner: Jordan Mayor, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, República de Panamá.

Honourable mentions: Michal Filipiak, Jagiellonian University, Poland; Daniel Goll, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany; Stefano Manzoni, Duke University, USA; Luciola Santos Lannes, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Leiling Tao, University of Michigan, USA; Xiaojuan Yang, ORNL, USA

26th NPS: Bioenergy trees

• Pedro Araújo, UNICAMP, Brazil

• Jennifer Cunniff, Rothamstead Research, UK

• Oana Dima, VIB-University of Ghent, Belgium

• Bingyou Fan, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands

• Judith Felten, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Sweden

• Stefania Giacomello, University of Udine, Italy

• Joshua Herr, Penn State University, USA

• Nataliia Kutsokon, Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering NASU, Ukraine

• Aurélian Lauron-Moreau, Université de Montréal - IRBV, Canada

• Fabio Marroni, University of Udine, Italy

• Matthew Nelson, University of Southamption, UK

• Claudiu Niculaes, VIB-University of Ghent, Belgium

• Dejuan Ning, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany

• Sara Pinosio, University of Udine, Italy

• Fernanda Salvato, University of São Paulo, Brazil

• Anna Stout, North Carolina State University, USA

• Maud Viger, University of Southampton, UK

• Venkatesh Viswanath, Oregon State University, USA

Poster prizes

Winners: Stépahne Maury, Université d’Orléans, France; Oana Dima, VIB-University of Ghent, Belgium & Hua Wang, Université Toulouse, France

25th NPS and Colston Research Society Symposium: Colonization of the terrestrial environment

• Katie Field, University of Sheffield, UK

• Casper Chater, University of Sheffield, UK

• Qasim Marzani, University of Nottingham, UK

• Emma Granqvist, John Innes Centre, UK

• Christopher White, University of Cambridge, UK

• Younousse Saidi, University of Birmingham, UK

• Laura Moody, University of Birmingham, UK

• Susan Tremblay, University of Berkely, California, USA

• Gracie Barrett, Scottish Crop Research Institute, UK

Poster prizes

Winner: John Clarke, University of Bristol, UK

Runner-up: Jenny Morris, Cardiff University, UK

24th NPS: Plant respiration and climate change: scaling from mitochondria to the globe

• Wagner Araújo, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany

• Doug Aubrey, University of Georgia, USA

• Gohar Ayub, Australian National University, Australia

• Igor Florez, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

• Henrik Hartmann, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany

• Mary Heskel, Columbia University, USA

• Richard Jacoby, University of Western Australia, Australia

• Jennifer Klodmann, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

• Jonathan Martin, Oregon State University, USA

• Poonam Mishra, Banasthali University, India

• Stephanie Searle, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

• Martijn Slot, University of Florida, USA

• Lorna Street, University of Edinburgh, UK

• Frederik Wegener, University of Bielefeld, Germany

23rd NPS: Carbon cycling in tropical ecosystems

• Andre Butler, University of Edinburgh, UK

• Tomas Domingues, University of Edinburgh, UK

• Cécile Girardin, University of Oxford, UK

• Lip Khoon Kho, University of Oxford, UK

• Caroline Lehmann, Charles Darwin University, Australia

• Jose Mauro Moura, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

• Fabian Scholz, San Juan Bosco Patagonia National University, Argentina

• Clément Stahl, INRA, UMR ECOFOG, France

• Marjan Van de Weg, University of Edinburgh, UK

22nd NPS: Effectors in plant–microbe interactions

• Melania Betts, Oregon State University, USA

• Laurence Boutemy, John Innes Centre, UK

• Angela Chaparro-Garcia, Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, UK

• Angela Maria Cusano, INRA-Nancy, France

• Georgina Fabro, Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, UK

• Eleanor Gilroy, SCRI, UK

• Selena Gimenez-Ibanez, Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, UK

• Stéphane Hacquard, INRA, Champenoux, France

• Joanna Jelenska, University of Chicago, USA

• Farnusch Kaschani, Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany

• Silke Kloppholz, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

• Alberto Macho, University of Malaga, Spain

• Jorge Mondego, Agronomic Institute of Campinas, Brazil

• Jonathan Plett, INRA-Nancy, France

• Philippe Remigi, INRA/CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Poster prizes

Winner: Silke Kloppholz, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Runners-up: Philippe Remigi, INRA-CNRS, Castanet Tolosan, France and Johana Misas-Villamil, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

21st NPS: The ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi

• Anna Wilkinson, University of Aberdeen, UK

• B. Beáta Tóth, University of Debrecen, Hungary

• Sara Branco, University of Chicago, USA

• Gregory Bonito, Duke University, USA

• Takahide Ishida, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

• Jessy Labbé, INRA- Nancy, France

• Marit Frederikke Markussen Bjorbækmo, University of Oslo, Norway

• Tiina Rajala, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Finland

• Jeri Parrent, University of Guelph, Canada

• Jordan Mayor, University of Florida, USA

• Susana Gonçalves, University of Coimbra, Portugal

• Montserrat Pestaña, Centro de Investigación e Información Ambiental, Spain

• Grzegoirz Wojtczak, Jagiellonian University, Poland

• Pierre-Emmanuel Courty, INRA-Nancy, France

Poster prizes

Winner: Sara Branco, University of Chicago, USA

Runner up: Inga Bödeker, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

20th NPS: Arsenic: unravelling its metabolism and speciation in plants

• Christina Feenstra, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Helle Martha Christophersen, University of Adelaide, Australia

• Barbara Logoteta, Mediterranea University Reggio Calabria, Italy

• Shinichi Miyashita, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Japan

• Gerd Patrick Bienert, Copenhagen University, Denmark

• Elisa Bona, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy

• Vincenza Cozzolino, University of Naples, Italy

• Delphine Vromman, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Poster prizes

Winner: Takehiro Kamiya, University of Tokoyo, Japan
Runners-up: Patrick Bienert, Copenhagen University, Denmark and Katharina Blumlein, University of Aberdeen, UK

19th NPS: Physiological sculpture of plants: new visions and capabilities for crop development

• Mariana Chiozza, Iowa State University, USA

• Sam Fox, Oregon State University, USA

• Wichuda Jankangram, Khon Kean University, Thailand

• Sun Kim, Dartmouth College, USA

• Judith Richter, INRA-Nancy, France

• Jose Rorundo, Iowa State University, USA

• Bhumi nath Tripathi, Banasthali University, India

• Ravi Valluru, University of Hohenheim, Germany

• Ameha Yaekob, University of Hannover, Germany

Poster prizes

Winners: Franciso Uribe, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, USA and Jagger Harvey, University of Cambridge, UK

Runner-up: Jose Rotundo, Iowa State University, USA