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The winner of the best presentation by a student in the NIA session at the 2009 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Portland, Oregon was Robert Javonillo of George Washington University for his presentation "Evolution of Reproductive Novelties among Characid Fishes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi) as Revealed by Emergent Phylogenetic Signal in Molecular Data".  His advisors are John Burns and Stan Weitzman. The judges this year were Washila Dahdul, Mario de Pinna and Brian Sidlauskas. We thank the following NIA members who donated funds for the cash award for the Best Student Presentation. James Albert John Armbruster Jonathan Baskin Mario de Pinna Nathan Lovejoy John Lundberg Brian Sidlauskas
NIA will be offering awards for the best student paper and poster at the ASIH meeting in July 2010.
Collecting Permits in Neotropical Countries
Photo credits: Nematobrycon palmeri, photographed by S.H. Weitzman & W.L. Fink, and Gymnogeophagus rhabdotus, photographed by Thomas Schulz. This page maintained by Héctor Salvador Espinosa Pérez, .For Paulo Petri in nia-net@lists.fas.harvard.edu Last revised september, 2005.