Congratulations to Grand Prize winner, Antigone Dimas, who was awarded Personal Genome Service from 23andMe, $250, and a one year personal subscription to Genome Research for her outstanding poster presentation entitled, "Exploring Epistatic Effects between Regulatory and Protein-coding Variation,” and to Second Prize winner, Dr. Tomás Vinar, who won $250 and a one year personal subscription to Genome Research for his outstanding poster presentation entitled, "Reconstructing Duplication Histories of Complex Tandem Arrays in Multiple Primate Species."

Click here to view Antigone Dimas’ poster. Click here to view Tomás Vinar’s poster.

Awards were presented May 9, 2008 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory during the meeting, "The Biology of Genomes."

In the photo, from left to right: Dr. Tomás Vinar, a post-doctoral fellow in the Dept. of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology at Cornell University, Antigone Dimas, PhD Student in Population and Comparative Genomics at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Dr. Hillary Sussman, Executive Editor of Genome Research, Dr. Robert Majovski, Assistant Editor of Genome Research. (Photo: Constance Brukin)

Poster Competition Announcement

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