People’s Choice and ECM Forum Poster Prize winners coming to the Society Showcase 2022

17 August 2022

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Annual Conference 2022 welcomed a wealth of great posters across four days, with many poster prizes recognising the best presenters. We are pleased to announce the winners of the People’s Choice and Early Career Microbiologists’ (ECM) Forum competitions.

The People’s Choice Poster Prize was voted on by delegates and recognises the most popular posters presented during the Annual Conference. Anya Morrison from the University of Leeds, UK, was awarded first prize for her poster presentation, Development of tools to study the mechanism of chronic liver disease associated with hepatitis C virus genotype 3 infection. Jonathon Coey from Queen's University Belfast was awarded second prize for his poster, Photocatalytic inactivation of enveloped and non-enveloped viruses including SARS-CoV-2 by titanium dioxide (TiO2)-containing plastic film and Cailean Carter from Quadram Institute was awarded third prize for his poster, Improving detection time of trimethoprim resistance in point-of-care antimicrobial screening for urinary tract infections.

The ECM Forum Poster Prize recognised the most promising ECM Forum member presenting a talk or a poster and was judged by the Forum’s Executive Committee. The 2022 ECM Forum Poster Prize was awarded to Adriana Bizior from the University of Strathclyde for her poster presentation, The ammonia-oxidising bacterium Nitrosomonas europaea acquires ammonium using a Rhesus protein. James Kelly from the Pirbright Institute and Thomas Hender from the University of Strathclyde are both highly commended for their poster presentations.

Congratulations to all the winners, who will be attending this year’s Society Showcase in October. Find out more about the winning posters in Access Microbiology.