The ASN congratulates the winners of its Student Research Awards. For more information on this award, please see the description here. The 2025 winners (in no particular order) are as follows:
- Rishiddh Jhaveri, The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) and The Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB): “Plant Chemistry and Seedling Community Dynamics in a Tropical Humid Forest”
- Nina Ferrari, Oregon State University: “Into the Third Dimension: Understanding the Vertical Distributions of Microclimate and Birds in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest”
- Subhashis Halder, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata: “Revisiting Reproductive Skew: Decoupling Aggression and Ovarian Development in a Queenless Ant”
- Florencia Vilches, University of California Santa Cruz: “Sentinels of Change: Exploring Southern Right Whale Migratory and Foraging Responses to Climate-driven Changes in Prey Availability”
- Robert Hechler, University of Toronto: “Quantifying the Effects of Life History and Temperature in Driving Nonlinear Dynamics in Global Marine Fish Populations”
- Emily Burgess, Utah State University: “The impacts of Climate Change and Phenological Mismatch on Microbial Inheritance in Seeds”
- Aidan Harrington, University of Minnesota Twin Cities: “The Contribution of Polyploidy Per Se to Niche Shifts and Polyploid Establishment in Clarkia”
- Yuxin Hou, the Australian National University: “Does Coevolution Drive Cospeciation in Bronze-Cuckoos (Chalcites spp.) and Their Hosts?”
- Kyla Knauf, Northwestern University & Chicago Botanic Garden: “From Flowers to Fruits: Understanding the Effects of Climate Change on Rocky Mountain Wildflower Phenology and Reproduction”
- Peter Searle, Cornell University: “Under Pressure: Adaptation of Opsin Proteins to High Hydrostatic Pressure”
We look forward to seeing the results of your research!