Natalia Ruiz-Vargas (Ph.D. December 2024) won this year’s Irene Manton Award from the Linnean Society
Introduction
Natalia Ruiz-Vargas (Ph.D. December 2024 in Roberta Mason-Gamer's lab) won this year's Irene Manton Award from the Linnean Society which is given for "the best thesis in botany examined for a doctorate of philosophy, as judged by a paper published in one of the Linnean Society's journals." Here is the announcement.
The paper is
Natalia Ruiz-Vargas, Dimitris A. Herrera, Roberta Mason-Gamer. 2025. Island hopping: dispersal of Pitcairnia L’Her. (Bromeliaceae) through the Caribbean islands, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, November 2025: boaf092. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boaf092
Congratulations to Dr. Ruiz-Vargas!