John Maynard Smith Prize
The John Maynard Smith Prize is a prize given by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology on odd years to an outstanding young researcher. It was first awarded in 1997 and is named after the evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith (1920–2004).[1]
List of winners
Source: European Society for Evolutionary Biology
| Year | Awarded to | For |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Marie-Charlotte Anstett | Facilitation and constraints in the evolution of mutualism |
| 1999 | Nicolas Galtier | Non stationary models of nucleotide substitution and the evolution of base composition |
| 2001 | Alexander Badyaev | Paradox of rapid evolution of sexual size dimorphism: the role of ontogeny and maternal effects |
| 2003 | Patricia Beldade | The genetic basis of phenotypic variation: evolution and development of butterfly wing patterns |
| 2005 | Daven Presgraves | Speciation genes & selfish genes in Drosophila |
| 2007 | Andy Gardner | The evolution of spite |
| 2009 | Tanja Schwander | Evolution of genetic caste determination in social insects ; Ben Sadd - Junior fellowship |
| 2011 | Rowan Barrett | The genetics of adaptation to changing environments ; Emma Hine - Junior fellowship |
| 2012 | Tanja Stadler | Looking at the present to learn about the past; Daniel Matute - Junior fellowship |
| 2013 | Rich FitzJohn | What drives biological diversification? Detecting the traits under species selection ; Line Ugelvig - Junior fellowship |
| 2014 | Laurie Stevison | The Time-Scale of Recombination Rate Evolution in Great Apes |
| 2015 | Matthew Hartfield | Mathematical adventures in sex and disease evolution |
| 2016 | E. Keith Bowers – University of Memphis, US | Silver spoons, sexy sons, and constraints on sex allocation |
| 2017 | Amanda Kyle Gibson – Emory University, Atlanta, US | What use is sex? |
| 2018 | Siobhan O’Brien – ETH Zurich, CH | Understanding the ecology and evolution of microbial social interactions in a complex world |
| 2019 | Karl Grieshop | Sexual conflict and the maintenance of genetic variance in fitness. |
See also
References
- "John Maynard Smith Prize". European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
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