Best Poster Prize awarded to Stefan Mielke

IPB doctoral student Stefan Mielke from the Gasperini Lab earned the Best Poster Award at the Regulatory Oxylipins Meeting. The international conference took place from April 1 to 4, 2019 at the VIB in Ghent (Belgium) and gathered ca. 110 researchers from across the globe that study the oxylipin class of signaling molecules. The phytohormone jasmonate is one of the most well-studied oxylipins from plants and is also intensely being studied at the IPB.

With his poster, Stefan Mielke presented research on long-distance jasmonate signaling within plants, that mediates growth responses in the roots when leaves are wounded. With intriguing and convincing data and a neatly designed poster, he impressed conference participants who voted for the best out of 45 posters. “I had many discussions during the poster sessions, and there were almost permanently people engaged at my poster”, Mielke describes his experience and adds, “Besides the poster session, which was very rewarding for me, I really enjoyed meeting the jasmonate community in such a familiar atmosphere and getting to know personally some of the people that I only knew by their author names before.” The IPB warmly congratulates Stefan Mielke on the poster award and wishes continued success.

Photo 1: Stefan Mielke in front of his award-winning poster at the Regulatory Oxylipins Meeting 2019 in Ghent (Photo: Debora Gasperini).

Photo 2: Award session at the Regulatory Oxylipins Meeting. Coincidentally, co-organizers and invited speakers, Bettina Hause and Debora Gasperini, both group leaders at the IPB, get to present the audience award for the best poster to Stefan Mielke. (Regulatory Oxylipins, a VIB Event. Photo: Courtesy of VIB Events).