/smithlab/ en /smithlab/2019/10/23/woohoo-prizes-luis-and-rocio <span>Woohoo, prizes for Luis and Rocío!</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-10-23T22:50:03-06:00" title="Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 22:50">Wed, 10/23/2019 - 22:50</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/smithlab/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/gbif.jpeg?h=ffed8f21&amp;itok=odJhfrh2" width="1200" height="600" alt="gbif"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/smithlab/taxonomy/term/65"> awards </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/smithlab/taxonomy/term/12" hreflang="en">Newsfeed</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-above"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle large_image_style"> <img loading="lazy" src="/smithlab/sites/default/files/styles/large_image_style/public/article-image/parodi.jpeg?itok=wxojc1TB" width="1500" height="1430" alt="parodi"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-text d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p>Luis was a third place winner in this year's GBIF&nbsp;Ebbe Nielsen Challenge, a contest for applications to expand the uses of open access biodiversity data.&nbsp;Luis created an&nbsp;R-based web app that matches biodiversity data with sequence data from Genbank to help researchers address evolutionary and ecological questions. You can read all about the contest winners and check out Luis' great app <a href="https://www.gbif.org/news/2mixX9oDrJI2W3AqPFOxI3/wherenext-wins-2019-gbif-ebbe-nielsen-challenge#gbsifter" rel="nofollow">here</a>!</p> <p>Rocío was the winner of this year's Parodi Prize from the Sociedad Argetina de Botánica. This prize is named for the famous Argentinian botanist, Lorenzo Parodi, and is awarded every year to an early career botanist from Latin America. The winner gives an invited talk at the annual meeting (Jornadas Argentinas de Botánica), which took place this year in Tucumán, Argentina. Here's a picture of Rocío, standing beside her co-advisor Gloria Barboza, receiving the Parodi medal!</p> <p></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>Both received well deserved recognition for their research contributions.</div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Thu, 24 Oct 2019 04:50:03 +0000 Anonymous 431 at /smithlab