Chloe Fouilloux (Jyväskylän yliopisto), winner of the AllGenetics-EMPSEB Award

Her talk about the importance of size in aggression behaviour in tadpoles has been selected as the best oral presentation at the EMPSEB26 held online this week.

AllGenetics is happy to announce that Chloe Fouilloux, PhD student at Jyväskylän yliopisto, has won the AllGenetics-EMPSEB Award. Her research work about the importance of size in agression behaviour in tadpoles has been selected as the best oral presentation at this year’s EMPSEB meeting, which was held online due to COVID.

Since 2012, the European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB) has been sponsored by AllGenetics by offering the AllGenetics-EMPSEB Award to the PhD student giving the best talk. The award consists of a one-week vacation in Ortigueira, a beautiful town in Galicia’s countryside (NW Spain), where the awardee and up to five friends are invited to enjoy Galician nature, its atmosphere, and gastronomy at The Farm Cottage, in the unique environment that Ortegal county has to offer.

Previous winners of the AllGenetics-EMPSEB Award were:

    • Mareike Wurdack (Universität Freiburg) in 2012.
    • Pepijn Kamminga (Universiteit Leiden) in 2013.
    • Margo Maex (Vrije universiteit Brussel) in 2014.
    • John Bruce (University of Oxford) in 2015.
    • Amy Eacock (University of Liverpool) in 2016.
    • Sebastiano de Bona (Jyväskylän yliopisto) in 2017.
    • Unni Pulliainen (Helsingin yliopisto) in 2018.
    • Lucy Rebecca Davies (Aarhus Universitet) in 2019.