Each year, the Education, Student and New Investigator Affairs Committee (ESNIA) invites students and new investigators to submit abstracts for either poster or oral presentations. Submissions are automatically entered in the Best Presentation/Poster Competition, which takes place at the EMGS Annual Meeting. To be considered for the award, the abstract must be submitted and presented by the student or new investigator. Each winner receives a monetary prize.
ESNIA is proud to announce the winners for the 2023 Student and New Investigator Platform Awards:
Best Student Platform
1st place Griffin Welfer - University of Kansas Medical Center Telomeric ribonucleotides cause rapid telomere shortening and genomic instability
2nd place Justin Ling - University of Iowa The Conformational Flexibility and Oligomeric State of Rad6-Rad18 Regulates its Interactions with Translesion Synthesis Proteins
Best New Investigator Platform
1st place Tess Leuthner - Duke University Natural genetic diversity in wild C. elegans contributes to variation in response to PFAS chemicals
2nd place Ryan Barnes - University of Kansas Medical Center ATR Prevents Mitotic Catastrophe Caused by Telomeric 8-oxo-Guanine Replication Stress
Thank you to the judges who helped make this competition a success and thank you also to all the participants who submitted abstracts and presented work. We sincerely hope you got as much back from your discussions as you gave with your efforts throughout the past year. We look forward to seeing you all return next year for the 2024 Annual Meeting in Palm Springs, CA. Be sure to bring your peers and lab mates along to introduce them to the best society out there!
2025 EMGS Program Chair
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