2025 Awards & Honors

Honors & Awards


Founders' Honoree


Trevor Jackson


Founders' Lecturer


Travis Glare


Mauro Martignoni Award Winner


 Chantelle Hooper


Chris J. Lomer Memorial Award


Not Present


Early Career Award


Zeyu Wang


Oral Presentation Awards


Maria Lázaro-Berenguer — First Place-Overall

Chantelle Hooper — First Place-DBI

Daysi Espin-Sanchez— First Place-Fungi

Juliana Ferreira — First Place-MCD

Innocent Rakubu - First Place-Nematode

Wessel Willemsen - First Place-Virus


Best Poster Presentation


Lorena Martinez — First Place 

Koichi Sugimoto — Second Place

Karen A. Espinosa — Third Place




Travel Awards


Division of Bacteria


Sandy Valdiviezo

Maria Lázaro-Berenguer


Division of Diseases of Beneficial Invertebrates


Lorena Martinez


Division of Fungi


Daysi Espin-Sanchez


Division of Microbial Control 


Francesco Volpe

Juliana Ferreira


Division of Microsporidia


No Awards


Division of Nematodes


Amit Horn

Innocent Rakubu

Elizabeth Carpentero


Division of Viruses


Sugimoto Koichi

Juul Steeghs

Wessel Willemsen