Awards for employees and Ph.D. students of the FFPW USB

On Thursday, June 5, 2025, the following students were awarded prizes for the best presentation at Ph.D. seminars during the Meeting of Academic and Scientific Staff and Ph.D. Students of the FFPW USB:

• Joao Ferreira with the title of his paper ‘Heritable and nonheritable changes in offspring produced via surrogate parents from cryopreserved germ stem cells in fish’
• Laurine Mule Mueni with the title of the paper ‘Sperm motility of freshwater species - sterlet, common carp and rainbow trout in viscous environments’
• Abhipsha Dey with the title of the paper ‘DNA damage response genes and proteins in fish embryo development’
• Anil Axel Tellbüscher with the title of the paper "Feeding the fish or the system? Considerations for fish nutrition within a circular economy framework"
• Eissaikiamal S. M. Konar with the title of the paper "The fate of unfertilized fish oocytes
• Helena Hinterholzová with the title of the paper ‘Fate and effects on polar micropollutants in aquatic environment’
• Gayani Kapukotuwa with the title of the paper ‘Effect of psychoactive compounds on the neurotransmission system of fish’
• Václav Kučera with the title of the paper ‘Enhancing pikeperch culture using new technological and biotechnological approaches’
• Augusto Frederico Huber with the title of the paper ‘Ecological significance of claws in crayfish’
• Ismael Soto Almea with the title of the paper ‘Long - term trends of biological invasion’

This meeting was followed by the All-Faculty Meeting of the FFPW USB, where not only the jubilees were awarded, but also the Dean's awards for extraordinary activities were given to the following employees:

• Highest publication activity - Haubrock Phillip
• Best Publication of the Year - Edens, B.M., Štundl, J., Urrutia, H.A., Bronner, M.E., 2024. Neural crest origin of sympathetic neurons at the dawn of vertebrates. Nature 629: 121-126.
• Best publications by an author under 35 in 2024 - Roy, D.R., Roy, K., Panserat, S., Stejskal, V., Mráz, J. and Turchini, G.M., 2024. Long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (LC-PUFA) composition of fish sperm: nexus of dietary, evolutionary, and biomechanical drivers. Progress in Lipid Research, p.101305.
• Best publication by an author under 35 years of age in 2024 - Janko, K., Eisner, J., Cigler, P., Tichopád, T., 2024. A unifying framework explaining how parental regulatory divergence can drive gene expression 1n hybrids and allopolyploids. Nature Communications 15: 8714.
• Best student publication in 2024 - Soto, I., Balzani, P., Carneiro, L., Cuthbert, R.N., Macedo, R., Tarkan, A.S., Ahmed, D.A., Bang, A., Bacela-Spychalska, K., Bailey, S.A., Baudry, T., Ballesteros-Majia, L., Bortolus, A., Briski, E., Britton, J.R., Buric, M., Comacho-Cervantes, M., Cano-Barbacil, C., Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Couhglan, N.E., Courtois, P., Csabai, Z., Dalu, T., De Santis, V., Dickey, J.W.E., Dimarco, R.D., Falk-Andersson, J., Fernandez, R.D., Florencio, M., Franco, A.C.S., García-Berthou, E., Giannetto, D., Glavendekic, M.M., Grabowski, M., Heringer, G., Herrera, I., Huang, W., Kamelamela, K.L., Kirichenko, N.I., Kouba, A., Kourantidou, M., Kurtul, I., Laufer, G., Lipták, B., Liu, C., López-López, E., Lozano, V., Mammola, S., Marchini, A., Meshkova, V., Milardi, M., Musolin, D.L., Nunez, M.A., Oficialdegui, F.J., Patoka, J., Pattison, Z., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Piria, M., Probert, A.F., Rasmussen, J.J., Renault, D., Ribeiro, F., Rilov, G., Robinson, T.B., Sanchez, A.E., Schwindt, E., South, J., Stoett, P., Verreycken, H., Vilizzi, L., Wang, Y.J., Watari, Y., Wehi, P.M., Weiperth, A., Wiberg-Larsen, P., Yapici, S., Yogurtcuoglu, B., Zenni, R.D., Galil, B.S., Dick, J.T.A., Russell, J.C., Ricciardi, A., Simberloff, D., Bradshaw, C.J.A., Haubrock, P.J., 2024. taming the terminological tempest in invasion science. Biological Reviews 99: 1357-1390.
• Best application result - Turek J., Avramović, M., Bořík, A., Lepič, P., Randák, T., 2024. Use of alizarin red (ARS) in mass marking of juvenile salmonids
• Significant international activity - Císař Petr, involved in the European GenoPHEnix consortium following the submission of the Pheno-Live project under Pillar I of the Horizon Europe Excellent Science - Research Infrastructures programme (HORIZON-IN FRA-2024-DEV-01)
• Best Positive Visibility - Prchal Martin, 1^st prize in the Minister of Agriculture's Young Scientists Competition 2024 - Award for outstanding research results and experimental development

Congratulations to all the winners.