Outstanding Poster award – Disease Ecology Section

2024 Call for Nominations for the Outstanding Student Poster Award

Undergraduate or graduate students and recent M.S. or Ph.D. recipients (within 2 years of receiving the degree) are eligible for this award.

To be considered, you must meet the following requirements:

1) The poster must result from research done as a student and be in the area of disease ecology.

2) If there are multiple authors, the applicant must be the first author.

3) The poster must be presented at the 2024 ESA meeting.

4) At the time of the application deadline (August 3), the applicant must be a student or have received their degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) within the past 2 years. Graduate students or recent degree recipients can either be section members or be advised by a section member; undergraduates can either be section members or be advised by a section member.

Posters will be judged by the Awards Committee appointed by the Officers of the Disease Ecology Section. The work will be judged based on the contribution to the field, including originality, study design, methods and analysis, and impact.

Applications should be submitted via email (esadiseaseecology AT gmail DOT com) by August 3rd with the subject line “Best Poster Award_ [Applicant Last Name]”. The email should include:

First and last name of the presenter
A statement confirming the applicant’s eligibility (either stating that the applicant is a current student or the date of completion of the degree).
Poster number.
Date and time of poster presentation.

The winner will be notified after the ESA meeting.

Previous winners:

2023: Katie Tseng

2021: Sarah Goodnight & Kacie Ring

2020: Daniel Suh

2019: Miranda Strasburg and Mayra Poterek

2018: Lisa Couper and Nichole Laggan