Davis Laundon wins Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year 2019

13 September 2019

Davis Laundon, from the Marine Biological Association, University of East Anglia, is the winner of this year’s Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year competition.

Davis is currently studying for his PhD in Marine Biology and was awarded the prize for his talk ‘Shining new lights on chytrid cell biology: Quantitative live cell imaging of rhizoid development in an early-diverging fungus.’

He said; “The competition was absolutely amazing this year. I thought every presentation was excellent and incredibly well communicated. To be awarded the prize amongst those presentations was a really huge honour and incredibly flattering.”

The second prize was awarded to Sarah Worsley, also from the University of East Anglia, for her talk on ‘The chemical ecology of protective microbiomes.’

Third prize was awarded to Michaela Conley from the University of Glasgow for her talk ‘Assembly of a portal-like structure in feline calicivirus following receptor engagement.'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Society congratulates all of the finalists and thanks those who took part in the competition.

Sir Howard Dalton is a past president and the prize is named in his honour to recognise his service to science. The Young Microbiologist of the Year prize recognises and rewards excellence in science communication by a Society member who is a postgraduate student or postdoctoral researcher, having gained their PhD in the last two years.