Awards and Prizes

Award for an early-career scientist

Functional Plant Biology is pleased to offer an annual award for the best paper published in the Journal in each calendar year by an early-career scientist.

The award carries a prize of a personal one-year print+online subscription to FPB, a AU$250 book voucher from CSIRO PUBLISHING, a framed reprint and a certificate.

To be eligible for the prize, the first author must be enrolled for a PhD, or be within ten years post-PhD, and a member of the ASPS (or their national equivalent).

Nominations are judged on the basis of reviewers’ reports, and the Executive Committee of the Australian Society of Plant Scientists.

The winner of the award will be announced in an early issue of the journal each year.

Previous Winners

2008: Joanne Tilbrook
Cell death in grape berries: varietal differences linked to xylem pressure and berry weight loss
Joanne Tilbrook and Stephen D. Tyerman
pp. 173-184
PDF (2.4 MB)

2007: Abby Cuttriss
Regulation of lutein biosynthesis and prolamellar body formation in Arabidopsis
Abby J. Cuttriss, Alexandra C. Chubb, Ali Alawady, Bernhard Grimm and Barry J. Pogson
pp. 663-672
PDF (571 KB)

2006: Rebecca Miller
Cyanogenesis in the Australian tropical rainforest endemic Brombya platynema (Rutaceae): chemical characterisation and polymorphism
Rebecca E. Miller, Judy Simon and Ian E. Woodrow
pp. 477-486
PDF (206 KB)

2005: Nick Gould
Phloem hydrostatic pressure relates to solute loading rate: a direct test of the Münch hypothesis
Nick Gould, Michael Thorpe, Olga Koroleva and Peter Minchin
pp. 1019-1026
PDF (156 KB)

2004: Megan P. Lindsay
A locus for sodium exclusion (Nax1), a trait for salt tolerance, mapped in durum wheat
Megan P. Lindsay, Evans S. Lagudah, Ray A. Hare and Rana Munns
pp. 1105-1114
PDF (181 KB)

Peter Goldacre Award

This is an award of the Australian Society of Plant Scientists, and is proudly sponsored by FPB. The award carries a prize of A$2000, a medal and a certificate.

Nominations are invited for this award every year. The background and eligibility requirement for the award are at http://www.plantsci.org.au/

Past Recipients of the Peter Goldacre Award

2008: Jason Able

2007: Ulrike Mathesius

2006: Peter Dodds

2005: Yong-Ling Ruan

2004: Stephen Swain

2003: Harvey Millar

2002: Spencer Whitney

2001: Christine Beveridge

2000: Barry Pogson

1999: Daniel Schachtman

1998: Jim Whelan and Adrian Clarke

1997: Peter Ryan

1995: Jon Lloyd

1994: Mark Thomas

1992: Bob Furbank

1991: John Evans

1990: G. I. McFadden

1989: Ian Dry

1988: Adrienne Hardham

1987: Steve Tyerman

1986: Jim Burnell

1984: Simon Robinson and Joe Wolfe

1982: Murray Badger

1981: Margaret Sedgley

1980: Graham Farquhar

1979: Brian Loveys

1978: T. J. Higgins

1977: Ray Rose

1976: John Andrews

1974: Andrew Smith

1972: Barry Osmond

1970: Roger Slack

1968: Bob Smillie

1965: Joe Giovanelli