DGP2020 Award Winners
Best Oral Presentation
Place 1: Justin Teixeira Pereira Bassiaridis, Sebastian Hess (University of Cologne, Germany)
"Prey range specificity and feeding modes in leptophryd amoebae (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria) from freshwater and soil ecosystems"
Place 2: Anna Busch, Sebastian Hess (University of Cologne, Germany)
"A UV-inducible sunscreen pigment found in the extracellular mucilage of aerophytic green algae (Zygnematophyceae)"
Place 3: Marcel Dominik Solbach, Michael Bonkowski, Kenneth Dumack (University of Cologne, Germany)
"The diversity of bacterial endosymbionts in rhizarian amoebae implies a universal infection of rather unrelated free-living amoebae by Legionellales"
Best Poster Presentation
Place 1: Nina Pohl, Michael Bonkowski, Kenneth Dumack (University of Cologne, Germany)
"The most abundant protist in wastewater treatment plants and its potential to spread diseases"
Place 2: Alexandra Rybarski, Frank Nitsche, Claudia Voigt, Michael Stauwasser, Hartmut Arndt (University of Cologne, Germany)
"Biodiversity and adaptation of protists to extreme aquatic environments in the Atacama Desert"
Place 3: Eduardo Acosta Solis de Ovando, et al. (University of Cologne, Germany)
"Andean uncovered biosphere: revealing the vertical milliscale bacterial and eukaryotic community structure within a freshwater microbial mat from Salar de Huasco"