The journal Heredity, the journal of the Genetics Society, has awarded Ellen Nikelski their Best Student Paper 2023 prize, for her paper “High heterogeneity in genomic differentiation between phenotypically divergent songbirds: a test of mitonuclear co-introgression.” Ellen’s research for this paper was conducted while an MSc student at UBC, and she is now a PhD student at the University of Toronto.

To learn more, see: https://www.nature.com/collections/hjgfdeeige

Nikelski, E., A.S. Rubtsov, and D. Irwin. 2023. High heterogeneity in genomic differentiation between phenotypically divergent songbirds: a test of mitonuclear co-introgression. Heredity 130: 1-13. Link

Congratulations to Ellen on this well-deserved award!!