Thank you to everyone who joined us in Tartu for the 2026 New Phytologist Editor-in-Chief Symposium, Collections through time: legacy and innovation.
We are delighted to congratulate four prize winners.
Prize for best oral presentation
Joint winners:
Patience Chatukuta
Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen
Germany | Zimbabwe
A toolkit for digitisation of resource-constrained herbaria: Lessons from a North-South partnership
Gianluca Grasso
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
France | Italy
Have global environmental changes led to a reshaping of microbial soil biodiversity?
Prize for best poster
Rhea Kõivutalu
University of Tartu
Estonia
A collection never studied: enigmatic Prototaxites fossils in Estonia
Prize for best poster – runner up
Jing Yang
University of Tartu
Estonia | China
Hidden extinction debt in a tropical forest revealed by dark diversity dynamics
Photos courtesy of Tanel Vahter.
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