Honors of the Society of Eukaryotic Microbiology, formerly: German Society for Protozoology

Winners of the student lecture and poster prizes

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36. Tagung in Leipzig/Meißen 2017 (Thomas Berendonk)

Posterpreise 2017

1. Preis: Poster 15. The green Tetrahymena utriculariae n. sp. (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) with its endosymbiotic algae (Micractinium sp.), living in traps of a carnivorous aquatic plant

Pitsch, Gianna; Adamec, Lubomir; Dirren, Sebastian; Nitsche, Frank;

Šimek, Karel; Sirova, Dagmara; Posch, Thomas

2. Preis: Poster 2. Euglenoid movement: an avoidance strategy against algivores?

Busch, Anna; Hess, Sebastian

3. Preis: Poster 7. Development of analytical tools for molecular biodiversity assessments

Hempel, Christopher; Boenigk, Jens; Bock, Christina; Marks, Sabina; Jensen, Manfred; Lange, Anja; Psenner, Roland

Vortragspreise 2017

1. Preis: Mycamoeba gemmipara nov. gen., nov. sp., the first cultured member of the environmental Dermamoebidae Clade LKM74 and its unusual life cycle

Blandenier, Quentin; Seppey, Christophe; Singer, David; Vlimant, Michele; Simon, Anaele; Duckert, Clement; Lara, Enrique

2. Preis: Comparison of the biodiversity of Placididea in regard to their geographical and genetical distribution

Rybarski, Alexandra; Carduck, Sarah; Nitsche, Frank; Arndt, Hartmut

3. Preis: Interaction analysis between Paramecium and its bacterial symbiont at functional and transcriptomic level

Großer, Katrin; Ramasamy, Pathmanaban; Schulz, Marcel; Simon, Martin; Schrallhammer, Martina

37. Tagung in Köln (Hartmut Arndt)

Posterpreise 2018

1. Preis: Poster 5: Testing the Kinetid Transformation Hypothesis in Choreotrichid Ciliates: First Ultrastructural Data on Dikinetids in a Tintinnid (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Spirotricha)

Michael S. Gruber, Alexandra Mühlthaler, Sabine Agatha

2. Preis: Poster 9: A Sleeping Beauty: Morphology and Ultrastructure of the Resting Cyst in the Marine Planktonic Tintinnid Schmidingerella meunieri (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Spirotricha)

Peter Radacher, Maximilian Ganser, Sabine Agatha

3. Preis: Poster 20: An attempt to study the self-organized spatial patterns in the growth of a ciliate population

David Günter & Hartmut Arndt

3. Preis: Poster 6: “Back to the roots” – An Inventory of Tintinnid species (Alveolata, Ciliophora) in the North-Eastern Pacific based on Original Descriptions

Margit Kagerer, Carmen Zinßmeister, Sabine Agatha

Vortragspreise 2018

1. Preis: First record of gregarines (Apicomplexa) from the Atacama Desert: Two new species associated with Scotobius and Psectrascelis (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)

Carduck, Sarah

2. Preis: Soil protists as drivers for soil disease suppressiveness by shifting bacterial community composition

Gao, Zhilei

3. Preis: Exploring the phylogeography of hyalospheniid testate amoebae (Amoebozoa) from regional to sub-continental scales

Quentin Blandenier, David Singer, Clément Duckert, Anush Kosakyan, Edward A.D. Mitchell, Leonardo D. Fernández, Daniel J.G. Lahr, Enrique Lara

38. Tagung in Wien (Julia Walochnik)

Posterpreise 2019

1. Preis: Poster 25: Marine protist diversity and community structure at the West Antarctic Peninsula

Philipp Wenta, Christoph Plum, Dominik Bahlburg, Katja Metfies, Thomas Badewien, Stefanie Moorthi

2. Preis: Poster 21: Oophila – an amphibian loving symbiont from northern

Maria Sachs, Miguel Vences, Thomas Ziegler, Hartmut Arndt

3. Preis: Poster 13: Through the magnifying glass – the global diversity of Rhogostomidae and their environmental drivers

Hüsna Öztoprak, Michael Bonkowski, Kenneth Dumack

Vortragspreise 2019 (zwei zweite Preise)

1. Preis: Hidden diversity of choanoflagellates from extreme saline environments – Investigation of new species originating from the Atacama Desert

Sabine Schiwitza, Hartmut Arndt, Frank Nitsche

2. Preis: Tintinnid’s First Top Model: Ultrastructural Insights into the Ciliature of Schmidingerella meunieri (Alveolata, Ciliophora)

Michael Gruber, Sabine Agatha

2. Preis: Small- and large-scale patterns of protists from the abyssal sea floors in the Caribbean Sea and the southern North Atlantic Ocean

Manon Hohlfeld, Alexandra Schönle, Karoline Hermanns, Hartmut Arndt

39. Tagung in Kaiserlautern (Thorsten Stoeck)

Posterpreise 2020

1. Preis: Poster 17: The most abundant protist in wastewater treatment plants and its potential to spread diseases

Nina Pohl, Michael Bonkowski, Kenneth Dumack (Universität Köln)

2. Preis: Poster 22: Biodiversity and adaptation of protists to extreme aquatic envrianments in the Atacama desert

Alexandra Rybarski, Frank Nitsche, Claudia Voigt, Michael Staubwasser, Hartmut Arndt (Universität Köln)

3. Preis: Poster 1: Andean uncovered biosphere: revealing the vertical milliscale bacterial and eukaryotic community structure within a freshwater microbial mat from Salar de Huasco

Eduardo Acosta et al. (Universität Köln)

Vortragspreise 2020

1. Preis: Prey range specificity and feeding modes in letophryid amoebae (Vampyrellidae, Rhizaria) from freshwater and soil ecosystems

Justin Teixeira Pereira Bassidiaridis, Sebastian Hess (Universität Köln)

2. Preis: A UV-inducible sunscreen pigment found in the extracellular mucilage of aerophytic green algae (Zygnematophyceae)

Anna Busch, Sebastian Hess (Universität Köln)

3. Preis: The diversity of bacterial endosymbionts in rhizarian amoebae implies a universal infection of rather unrelated free-living amoebae by Legionellae

Marcel Dominik Solbach. Michael Bonkowski, Kenneth Dumack (Universität Köln)

40. Digitale Tagung in Essen (Micah Dunthorn)

Posterpreise 2021

1. Preis: Poster 7: DeSignate: detecting signature characters in gene sequence alignments for taxon diagnoses

Maximilian Ganser et al. (Universität Salzburg)

2. Preis: Poster 23: Retention of microplastics by biofilms and its ingestion by protists

Jennifer Werner et al. (Universität Köln)

3. Preis: Poster 24: Experiments on the spatial distribution in a single-species system – Experiments with the ciliate Tetrahymena pyriformis

Johannes Werner und Hartmut Arndt (Universität Köln)

Vortragspreise 2021

1. Preis: Revealing the role of carbohydrate-active enzymes in microbial protoplast feeders by transcriptome-informed cell biology.

Jannika Moye et al. (Universität Köln)

1. Preis: Solving the morphology puzzle by an integrative taxonomy in genus

Arcella (Arcellinida, Lobosea, Amoebozoa)

Rubén González-Miguéns et al. (Real Jardín Botánica de Madrid)

2. Preis: Describing protist feeding patterns to assess their ecological functions

Nathalie Amacker et al. (Universität Utrecht)

41. Tagung in Bergisch Gladbach (Martin Simon und Franziska Drews)

Keine kostenlosen Mitgliedschaften für Preise vergeben.

Posterpreise 2022 (zwei erste Preise)

1. Preis: Poster 14: Potential and advantages of cryo-FIB-SEM 3D reconstruction on the biomineralization in Coleps hirtus.

Lennart Dörr et al., Institut für Biomaterialien und biomolekulare Systeme, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart

1. Preis: Poster 16: Plant diversity and drought effects on community composition of Cercozoa and Oomycota.

Marcel Dominik Solbach et al., University of Cologne, Institute of Zoology – Terrestrial Ecology, Cologne, Germany

3. Preis: Poster 8: Formation pathway and bioaccumulation of intracellular metalcontaining particles in ciliates.

Jana Kohl et al., University of Stuttgart, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomolecular Systems

Vortragspreise 2022

1. Preis: Patterns of protist diversity from sublittoral to abyssal sediments in the Atlantic Ocean and consequences for speciation processes.

Manon Hohlfeld und Hartmut Arndt, University of Cologne, Biocenter, Institute of Zoology, General Ecology

2. Preis: Chitin and chitin-related factors in microbial protoplast feeders point to new roles of understudied biopolymers in protists.

Jannika Moye et al., Institute for Zoology, University of Cologne

3. Preis: Non-templated modifications of small RNA species in Paramecium. Marcello Prirritano et al., Molekulare Zellbiologie, Bergische Universität Wuppertal

IX ECOP / ISOP / 42. DGP-Tagung in Wien (Julia Walochnik), 09.07.-14.07.2023

Posterpreise 2023

1. Preis: Poster 49 der 2. Session: A new phylogenomic dataset for pinpointing the root of the Kelsey Williamson

2. Preis: Poster 8 der 1. Session: New contributions to the taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Condylostoma (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Heterotrichea) Yong Chi

3. Preis: Poster 50 der 2. Session: Morphological plasticity and species determination: a case study from Pseudokeronopsis erythrina Chen et al. 2011 (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia, Urostylida) Wenxin Xu

Vortragspreise 2023 (zwei zweite und zwei dritte Preise)

1. Preis: A holistic approach to inventory the diversity of mobilid ciliates (Protista: Ciliophora: Peritrichia)

Tengyue Zhang

2. Preis: Abortive infection and defensive symbiosis – how protists defend themselves against giant viruses

Patrick Arthofer

2. Preis: Palythoa aff. clavata as a source of bioactive compounds against the “brain eating” amoeba

Iñigo Arberas-Jiménez

3. Preis: Decoding the doo-doo dilemma: The impact of bacteria on aggregative multicellularity in dung-inhabiting amoebae

Tristan Henderson

3. Preis: The “bacterial” endosymbionts of Symbiomonas scintillans are actually prasinoviruses of the NCLDV phylum

Anna Cho

43. DGP-Tagung in Haltern am See (Jens Boenigk, Sonja Rückert), 27.02.-01.03.2024

Posterpreise 2024 (zwei zweite Preise)

1. Preis: Poster 4: First volumetric analyses of lorica forming material in the tintinnid model genus Schmidingerella (Alveolata, Ciliophora)

Laura Böll et al.

2. Preis: Poster 5: Natrix2 – Improved amplicon workflow with novel Oxford Nanopore Technologies support and enhancements in clustering, classification and taxonomic databases

Dana Bludau et al.

2. Preis: Poster 12: Single-stranded or double-stranded RNA delivery, is that relevant at all?

Pauline Staubach et al.

Vortragspreise 2024

1. Preis: Soil biodiversity ecosystem functioning: Using protists as a model Alejandro Berlinches de Gea et al.

2. Preis: Spatial ecology on a chip exemplified by single-species experiments with Tetrahymena

Johannes Werner and Hartmut Arndt

3. Preis: Deep molecular characterization of microorganisms´ diversity and community composition in the tree canopies

Jule Freudenthal et al.