The BLS8 Symposium was a great success! There were presentations by 91 students at this symposium. Among them, the following four individuals were selected for the Best Student Oral Presentation Award and the Best Student Poster Presentation Award.

AWARD WINNER FOR AN ORAL PRESENTATION

Mathilde Chevallay (PhD candidate at Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, CNRS, France)

AWARD WINNER FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Christine Barry (PhD candidate at Murdoch University and the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia)

Ellen Hayward (Masters Student at University of St Andrews, UK)

Don-Jean Léandri-Breton (PhD candidate at McGill University, Canada. Present address at Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

BLS8 best student awards were sponsored by PeerJ Publishing. Interview articles with the student award winners regarding their research have been published on the PeerJ Blog. Please enjoy reading their interview articles!