WAC offers up to three student research grants per year, in accordance with the availability of WAC funds, with each award up to US$1,000. This grant-in-aid aims to facilitate copepod research,
including – but not limited to – research supplies, field work, course/workshop attendance, visiting collections, etc.
We successfully ran the first student grant program in 2023. We had twelve outstanding applications from all over the world and funded three projects. The winners are listed below. We hope
to make this an annual program.
Aarón García Bernal, Posgrado en Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, UNAM
Epigenetics adaptations to hypoxia in the harpacticoid copepod Amphiascoides atopus.
Alexander Dindial, University of Stirling
Modulation of the transcriptome of an Atlantic salmon epithelial cell line by the secretory and excretory products of the copepod ectoparasite Lepeophtheirus salmonis.
Alexandra Hahn, GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel
Interspecies Transcriptomics Facilitate the Understanding of Salinity Tolerance in Baltic Sea Copepods.