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The New Phytologist Tansley Medal 2021 – Michał Bogdziewicz and Anna T. Trugman

2022; Wiley; Volume: 234; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/nph.18033

1469-8137

Holly Slater, Liam Dolan,

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

It is our great pleasure to announce that the 2021 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for Excellence in Plant Science has been awarded jointly to Michał Bogdziewicz and Anna T. Trugman. The Tansley Medal is awarded annually in recognition of outstanding contributions to research by individuals in the early stages of their career (Woodward & Hetherington, 2010, 2011; Dolan, 2012, 2013, 2014; Lennon & Dolan, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020a,b; Slater & Dolan, 2022), and it is a great pleasure to award the 2021 prize to Michał and Anna. Michał is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Environmental Biology at the Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poznań, Poland whose work encompasses forest ecology, especially interactions between plants and animals, and the mechanisms driving variation in plant fecundity. A major focus of his work is to understand synchronized periodical reproduction – mast seeding – and his Tansley insight considers proximate mechanisms of seed production patterns in perennial plants to identify processes through which masting may be affected by changing global drivers: ‘How will global change affect plant reproduction? A framework for mast seeding trends’ (Bogdziewicz, 2022a, in this issue of New Phytologist, pp. 14–20). Anna is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA whose research focusses around understanding the Earth system consequences of plant physiological processes and ecological interactions, particularly in water-limited systems impacted by climate change. Anna’s Tansley insight explores how vegetation models (VMs), which simulate plant physiological processes, can be leveraged to resolve gaps in our understanding of plant responses to climate: ‘Integrating plant physiology and community ecology across scales through trait-based models to predict drought mortality’ (Trugman, 2022b, in this issue of New Phytologist, pp. 21–27). More information about Michał and Anna and their research can be found in the accompanying Profile articles in this issue of the journal (Bogdziewicz, 2022b and Trugman, 2022a, pp. 10 and 12, respectively). We would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge three outstanding Tansley Medal runners up: Rebecca T. Batsone is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, but will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at McMaster University in Canada (July 2022). Rebecca’s Tansley insight is entitled ‘Genomes within genomes: nested symbiosis and its implications for plant evolution’ (this issue, pp. 28–34). Marcos Fernández-Martínez is a Researcher at the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Barcelona, Spain. Marcos’ Tansley insight is entitled ‘From atoms to ecosystems: elementome diversity meets ecosystem functioning’ (this issue, pp. 35–42). Fanny E. Hartmann is an Associate Professor at the University of Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France. Fanny’s Tansley insight is entitled ‘Using structural variants to understand the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of fungal plant pathogens’ (this issue, pp. 35–42). Applications for the 2022 Tansley Medal competition are currently being evaluated and we would like to bring to your attention that the deadline for the 2023 Tansley Medal competition will be earlier than in recent years – 1 November 2022. We encourage applications from across the breadth of the plant science community and invite you to bring the Tansley Medal competition to the awareness of your colleagues and students world-wide. Further information is available on the Tansley Medal pages of the New Phytologist Foundation website at: https://www.newphytologist.org/awards/tansleymedal. We offer our warmest congratulations to Michał, Anna and their fellow finalists, and we wish them continued success in their future careers. The judging panel for the 2021 Tansley Medal was comprised of the following New Phytologist Editors: Amy Austin (Buenos Aries, Argentina), Ian Dickie (Canterbury, New Zealand) Liam Dolan (Vienna, Austria), Elena Kramer (Harvard, USA), Shuhua Yang (Beijing, China).