Winners of the Genome Research poster competition at 2011 “The Biology of Genomes” meeting are announced.
Congratulations to the Grand Prize winner, Victor Mason, who was awarded $500 and a one-year personal subscription to Genome Research for his outstanding poster presentation. A graduate student at Texas A&M University, Victor presented the poster entitled, "Efficient cross-species capture hybridization and next-generation sequencing of mitochondrial genomes from non-invasively sampled colugo museum specimens.” Congratulations also to the Second Prize winner, Belen Lorente-Galdos, who won $250 and a one-year personal subscription to Genome Research for her outstanding poster presentation. Belen, a postdoctoral fellow at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, presented the poster entitled, “Fast exon evolution in duplicated regions in primates.”
Awards were presented May 14, 2011 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory during the meeting, "The Biology of Genomes."
Victor Mason (left) was awarded the Grand Prize of $500 and a one-year personal subscription to Genome Research during "The Biology of Genomes" meeting for his poster presenting a novel approach to isolate, sequence, and analyze mitochondrial genomes from museum samples, specifically the colugo (flying lemur).
Belen Lorente-Galdos (left) received the Second Prize of $250 and a one-year personal subscription to Genome Research during "The Biology of Genomes" meeting for her work offering novel insight in the patterns of natural selection in all coding sequences of the human genome.
Also in photo, Dr. Robert Majovski, Assistant Editor of Genome Research (right).
