2026 Awards & Honors

Honors & Awards

Founders' Honoree

Just Vlak

Founders' Lecturer

Monique van Oers

Honorary Member

Peter Krell

Mauro Martignoni Award Winner

 Farzad Bidari

Chris J. Lomer Memorial Award

Gangavarapu Subrahmanyam

Early Career Award

Kelsey Coffman

Dwight Lynn Award 1st

Zhengkun Xiao

Dwight Lynn Award 2nd

Xiang He

Oral Presentation Awards

Naomi Falconnier — First Place-Overall

Wouter Poppelsdorf— First Place-Bacteria

Delphine Panziera— First Place-DBI

Iasbela Fetter— First Place-Fungi

Daniel Raz Blinderman — First Place-MCD

Olena Nahimova - First Place-Nematode

Tyson Thomson  - First Place-Virus

Best Poster Presentation



Ariadni Papafoti — First Place 

Eve Rose — Second Place

Sara Amoriello — Third Place

Avishag Sarid — Third Place

Travel Awards

Division of Bacteria

Nicole Bryce-Sharron

Noelia Joya

Sandy Nicole Valdiviezo

Division of Diseases of Beneficial Invertebrates

Fang-Min Chang

Division of Fungi

Claire Yager

Kusum Mushyakhwo

Division of Microbial Control 

Fátima Rueda Maíllo

Lina Charlotte Dammel

Daniel Ras Blinderman

Division of Microsporidia

Nataša Katanić

Eva Rose

Arnab Saha Omi

Division of Nematodes

Nicholle Claasen

Elizabeth Carpentero

Division of Viruses

Dennis Kenbeek

Nura Ababakar

Linda de Jong