{"id":1617,"date":"2025-05-16T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2025-05-16T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:55:09","slug":"poster-prize-success-for-exeter-mechanical-ecology-lab-members-at-recent-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"Poster prize success for Exeter Mechanical Ecology Lab members at recent conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Igor and <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/?page_id=714\">Skylar<\/a> for winning runner-up poster prizes at two UK conferences recently. Igor&#8217;s poster was among the winning entries at the Annual <a href=\"https:\/\/iop.eventsair.com\/ukpbc2025\/\">UK Plant Biomechanics Conference<\/a> in Leeds in late March. This was particularly remarkable as Igor is only 6 months into his Masters by Research project and consequently has much less data to show than a more advanced PhD student or postdoc. It was really nice to see a Masters student poster recognized in poster competition &#8211; what a boost for Igor&#8217;s motivation!<\/p>\n<p>Less than two weeks later, Skylar also won a runner-up prize at the <a href=\"https:\/\/genetics.org.uk\/events\/seed-plant\/\">Genetics Society Seed Plant Meeting<\/a> in Durham. Both build on a long-standing track record of award-winning posters and talks in our lab &#8211; you can check out some examples <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/?page_id=174\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1619\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-29-at-09.36.53-300x226.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-29-at-09.36.53-300x226.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-29-at-09.36.53-1024x771.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-29-at-09.36.53-768x578.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-29-at-09.36.53-1536x1157.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-29-at-09.36.53-660x497.jpeg 660w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-29-at-09.36.53.jpeg 2040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Igor and Skylar for winning runner-up poster prizes at two UK conferences recently. Igor&#8217;s poster was among the&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/?p=1617\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poster prize success for Exeter Mechanical Ecology Lab members at recent conferences<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}