European Ichthyological Society Student Awards

 

 

2007 EIS STUDENT AWARD WINNERS   ORAL PRESENTATIONS BEST ORAL PRESENTATION: ANNA GRZYB, from Poland, working at the Sea Fisheries Institute in Gdynia. The presentation was entiteled ‘Two different scenarios of herring (Clupea harengus membras) recruitment mechanisms in the Vistula lagoon (southern Baltic), observed in 2004 and 2005’.   SECOND BEST ORAL PRESENTATION: ELODIE REVEILLAC, from the Universite de La Rochelle, France. The title of presentation: ‘Plasticty of larval migration strategies in eels: an evolutionary advantage?’.   THIRD BEST ORAL PRESENTATION: ISABEL S. MAGALHAES, from the Bern University in Switzerland. The title of presentation: ‘Morphological divergence of sympatric cichlid populations from Lake Victoria: evidence for disruptive ecological selection’.     POSTER PRESENTATIONS BEST POSTER PRESENTATION: IRENA VARDIC, from Croatia, working at the Rudjer Boskovic Institute in Zagreb. The poster was entiteled: ‘Determination of Acanthocephala parasites in European chub (Leuciscus cephalus) from the Sava River based on mitochondrial DNA, 18S and ITS rDNA sequence analysis’.   SECOND BEST POSTER PRESENTATION: BRIAN HAYDEN, from the University Colleague Dublin, Ireland. The presentation was entitled: ‘A molecular investigation into hybridization between cyprinid species in Ireland’.   THIRD BEST POSTER PRESENTATION: JOANNA MARTELO, from the University of Lisabon, Portugal. The title of the poster was: ‘Habitat associations and preferences of exploited fish species in the lower Amazon floodplain’.

 

 

The European Ichthyological Society is awarding the best oral and poster presentations given by students at the EIS congresses.

 

The EIS Student Awards (EISSA) include:

·       Three EISSA for best oral presentations (1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd)

·       Three EISSA for best poster presentations (1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd)

 

The EIS will reward the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd oral and poster presentations with 300, 200 and 100 EUR respectively. All three winners of both categories will be rewarded with the EIS membership fee for the 3-year period following the congress.

 

To be eligible for either EISSA a student must:

(1)    indicate a desire to be a candidate on the abstract submission form;

(2)    meet the EIS criteria for "student": must be under the age of 35 and present the organisers with proof of student status; and

(3)    be the first author and must be the presenter for oral presentations.

 

All posters and presentations should be in English.

 

Each student may select only one poster or oral presentation for the award competition.

 

Moreover, to facilitate the process of rating the candidate presentations, oral presentations using Powerpoint or similar digital supports should be submitted electronically to the congress organising committee at the beginning of the congress. This does not apply to presentations not using digital support.

 

Award Committee

The EIS Board will appoint two Award Committees (one for oral and one for poster presentations), formed by prominent Society members, to undertake the task of rating the candidate presentations. The names of the 'judges' will be posted on Congress sites. The results will be announced during the Congress dinner or the closing ceremony.

 

Evaluation

The presentations are judged by the following criteria: introduction; methods; data analysis and interpretation; conclusions - innovation, originality and scientific significance; presentation; and visual aids or graphic design. To some (limited) extent, linguistic difficulties may be taken into account.

 

The rating scale is 0-10 points: excellent (9-10), very good (7-8), good (4-6), fair (2-3), poor (0-1).