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2026 SMBE Young Investigator Travel Award Winners

2026 SMBE Young Investigator Travel Award Winners

Please join us in congratulating our 2026 SMBE Young Investigator Travel Award Winners!

Lucija Andjel 

Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics of The Czech Academy of Sciences; Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University

From Sterility to Clonality: Linking Rapid Sex-Chromosome Turnover to Asexual Reproduction in a Vertebrate Hybrid Complex

Moritz Blumer 

University of Cambridge

Genetics of repeated ecotype separation in Malawi cichlid genus Labeotropheus

Margaret Chi 

University Of Washington; Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Co-option of long terminal repeats mediates endogenous retrovirus dysregulation in cancer

Nadav Mishol 

Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science

The Gene Regulatory Evolution of the Human Skeleton

Saswat Mohanty 

Penn State University

Population genetic analysis of G-quadruplexes across the human pangenome

Markella Moraitou 

University Of Edinburgh

Ecology and evolution of the mammalian oral microbiome elucidated using museum specimen metagenomics

Shazia Parveen 

National Centre for Biological Sciences

Mutation bias is a key predictor of adaptation rate

David Peede

Brown University

Coalescent-Based Introgression Inference: Theory, Biases, and Solutions

Gabriel Preising

Stanford University

Long-read sequencing reveals the genomic architecture of alternative reproductive tactics in swordtail fishes

Roudin Sarama

Queen Mary University of London

Signals of positive selection on transposable element control genes across structured human populations

Andrea Soler i Núñez

University of Copenhagen

Rethinking human AMY1 copy number evolution in light of demographic history

Cedric Tan

University College London

Eco-evolutionary drivers of the emergence of the major wildlife pathogen, Ranavirus

Nina Vittorelli

Sorbonne Université / Collège De France

Repeated losses of self-fertility shaped heterozygosity and polyploidy in yeast evolution

Yue Yu

University of British Columbia

Investigating Effects of Inversions and Recombination Modifiers to Ecotypic Differentiation in Wild Sunflowers

Xueling Yi

Senckenberg Gesellschaft Für Naturforschung

Pervasive and convergent changes in the kynurenine pathway contribute to sugar-diet adaptations in bats

Olga Rosspopoff

Igbmc

Transposable Element Co-Option Drives Transcription Factor Neofunctionalization

Henry North

University Of Cambridge

Unwanted evolutionary rescue: bidirectional adaptive introgression of pesticide resistance genes between native and invasive Helicoverpa crop pests

Tom Parée

New York University

Self-fertilization can reverse the selection coefficient on a recombination landscape modifier during experimental evolution

Christopher Kyriazis

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

Using genomics to predict inbreeding depression risk: Case studies in Hawaiian birds

Pascal Angst

University of Basel

Strong bottlenecks constrain adaptive evolution in a host–parasite metapopulation


Selection committee:

Jian Lu, Yun Song, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Julia Kreiner, Mia Levine, Mateja Hajdinjak, Daniel Croll, Diego del Vecchyo, Mehmet Somel, Nandita Garud

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