There were 28 competitiors and the quality of entries was exceptionally high. Graduate awards consist of a certificate, US$50, and a one-year membership in The Crustacean Society, including subscription to The Journal of Crustacean Biology. Undergraduate awards consist of a certificate and US$50. TCS thanks those members who served as judges and all student participants.
The Best Graduate Student Oral Presentation Award was presented to Danielle Liubicich (University of California, Berkeley) for her talk entitled " The role of Hox genes in crustacean appendage diversity" (with co-authors J. M. Serano and N. H. Patel).
There was a tie for the Best Graduate Student Poster, with awards going to Kristin Hardy (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) for her poster entitled "Effects of fiber size on post-contractile phosphagen resynthesis in crustacean muscle" (with co-author S. T. Kinsey) and to Anna Wynn (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) for her poster entitled “Four differentially expressed Callinectes sapidus (blue crab) cuticular transcripts containing the Rebers-Riddiford consensus sequence (with co-author T. H. Shafer.
The Best Undergraduate Student Poster Awards were presented to Vincent Gonzalez (University of San Diego) for his poster entitled, "Polymorphic microsatellite loci for threatened anostracan and related species" (with co-authors N. Pepino, S. Valero, A. Bohonak and M. Simovich) and to Travis R. Lilley (Colorado State University) for the poster entitled “Variable expression of myofibrillar protein isoforms in juvenile lobster claw muscles” (with co-authors S. Medler and D. L. Mykles).