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<\/p>\nGenerous individuals and organizations active in mycorrhizal research have graciously provided the awards and prizes listed below to recognize outstanding student research. Conference organizers would like to thank them all for their commitment to encouraging students and helping to develop the next generation of mycorrhizal researchers!<\/p>\n
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Given by:<\/em> New Phytologist and International Mycorrhiza Society<\/strong><\/p>\n The J.L. Harley Medal is to be awarded for the best paper presented by a graduate student.\u00a0The medal is also accompanied by prize money of \u00a3200 (GBP).<\/p>\n\n Given by:<\/em>Laboratoire de mycologie, Centre d\u2019\u00e9tude de la for\u00eat, Universit\u00e9 Laval<\/strong><\/p>\n To be awarded to a graduate student as the first runner up for best oral presentation<\/strong> on any aspect of mycorrhiza research. The prize will consist of a certificate and 100$US.<\/p>\n Given by: The Journal\u00a0Mycorrhiza\u00a0<\/strong>(published by Springer-Verlag GmbH)<\/p>\n To be awarded for the best poster presentation<\/strong> by a graduate student on any aspect of mycorrhiza research. The prize will consist of a certificate and voucher for US $250 toward the purchase<\/a> of any book.<\/p>\n Given by: <\/em>Larry Peterson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n \n \n Award background Accordion Closed<\/span><\/h4>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n
\n \n\n\nMycorrhizal research has been marked by a number of pioneers whose activities encompassed the latter part of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century. However, it was the publication in 1959 of the first edition of ‘The Biology of Mycorrhiza’ that provided the turning point in the history of research in this field. This book by John Laker Harley was the first to bring mycorrhiza and mycorrhizal research to a wide audience.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nProfessor Harley was a first class scientist who used the most recent biochemical and physiological techniques (including radioactive tracers) to elucidate some of the functional mechanisms of ectomycorrhizas. His approaches, and those of his many students, were always imaginative and rigorous, and served to demonstrate the fundamental importance of the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis. As well as being an excellent experimental scientist, Professor Harley, always affectionately known by his friends and colleagues simply as ‘Jack’, was an outstanding communicator. His enthusiasm for ectomycorrhiza, and his lively lecturing style, stimulated a marked increase in research into other categories of mycorrhizas, including arbuscular and ericoid mycorrhizas, and brought mycorrhizas to the attention of ecologists and plant physiologists. His work set the stage for mycorrhizal research as we know it today and he was instrumental in the development of many scientific careers in this discipline around the world.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nJack’s series of landmark papers on the physiology of ectomycorrhizas were published in New Phytologist starting in 1950, and from 1961 to 1983 he edited the journal, establishing its reputation as a home for top-quality mycorrhizal research.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThrough creation of ‘The New Phytologist Harley Medal’, the International Mycorrhiza Society (IMS) and New Phytologist highlight John Laker Harley’s career as a model for younger scientists to follow. The medal is awarded, at each International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM), to the graduate student who is deemed to have presented a paper which best emulates the rigorous approaches to mycorrhizal research that Professor Harley pioneered during his lifetime. The medal is also accompanied by prize money of £200 (GBP).<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAny bona fide graduate student enrolled in an institution of higher learning or recently graduated (6 months before the first date of the international meeting) is eligible. An abstract must be submitted at the ICOM at which the student will compete for the Award.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nEvery effort will be made to ensure that each student in the competition has a fair evaluation and an equal chance of winning the award. Oral presentations will be evaluated by a panel of judges and the final choice of the winner will be decided by the IMS Awards Committee. The merit of each paper will be judged on the basis of scientific content (60%) and presentation (40%).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nBarbara Mosse – Laval Universit\u00e9 Prize
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<\/h2>\nInternational Mycorrhiza Society Prize<\/h2>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGiven by:<\/em>International Mycorrhiza Society<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\nTo be awarded to a graduate student as the second runner up for best oral presentation<\/strong>\u00a0on any aspect of mycorrhiza research. The prize will consist of a certificate and US $100.<\/div>\nMycorrhiza Prize<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nLarry Peterson Anatomy Prize<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\nTo be awarded to a graduate student for the\u00a0best poster presentation<\/strong>\u00a0on the structure of mycorrhizas . The prize will consist of a copy Mycorrhizas: Anatomy and Cell Biology<\/em>, certificate, and \u00a0US $100.<\/div>\nUltimate Mycorrhiza Application for Harnessing Agriculture Resources Integration (UMAHARI) Award<\/h2>\n
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