Dear Colleagues,

The journal Genes (MDPI, Switzerland, ISSN 2073-4425, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genes) is inviting applications for the Genes 2022 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. This prize will be awarded to a PhD student who is about to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses in the field of genes. Applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Genes Editorial Board.

Eligibility Requirements:
– The candidate must be a PhD student who is going to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses.
– The PhD thesis must be original work.
– The PhD thesis must be defended between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022.

Required Application Documents:
– An executive summary of the PhD thesis in English, of around 3000 words;
– A letter from PhD supervisor recommending the candidate for consideration for this award;
– The candidate’s CV, including a list of publications connected with the thesis;
– An electronic copy of the PhD thesis;
– A scanned copy of the PhD diploma (or a certificate showing they are studying at a university or research institute as a PhD student who is going to participate in graduation thesis defenses).

Selection Criteria:
– Quality of the resume and publications;
– Relevance of the candidate and research description;
– Novelty of the candidate’s PhD thesis;
– Strength of the recommendation letter;
– Anticipated academic potential;
– Originality and impact of the research.

Prizes:
– Bonus (500 CHF);
– A certificate;
– An offer to publish a featured paper in Genes with the article processing charge (APC) waived before the end of 2023.

How to Apply?
Please submit your application materials via the Genes Journal Award website (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genes/awards)

The application deadline is 30 January 2023. The winner will be announced on the Genes website by the end of March 2023.

Please feel free to contact us at [email protected] with any questions.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Genes is now inviting nominations for one 2022 Young Investigator Awards in Human Genomics and Genetic Diseases. This prize will be given to two young investigators in recognition of their excellence in different areas of research on Human Genomics and Genetic Diseases. All nominations will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Peter W. Young.

The Prize:
– 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs) for each winner;
– The option to publish one paper free of charge in Genes after peer review before the end of 31 October 2023.

Eligibility and Requirements:
– Must be under 40 years of age or have received their Ph.D. no more than 8 years prior to 31 October 2021;
– Must have produced ground-breaking research and a significant contribution to the advancement of genetics and genomics research;
– Candidates must be nominated by their supervisor(s), research director, or department head.

List of Documents for Nomination:
– Detailed Curriculum Vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;
– A copy of a birth certificate or other proof of age;
– Scanned copy of doctorate certificate;
– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

Schedule:
– Open for nominations: March 2022;
– Nomination deadline: 31 October 2022;
– Winners announced: December 2022.

How to submit nominations?
The nominations must be submitted online.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Genes is now inviting nominations for one 2022 Young Investigator Awards in Molecular Genetics and Genomics. This prize will be given to two young investigators in recognition of their excellence in different areas of research on Molecular Genetics and Molecular Genomics. All nominations will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Peter W. Young.

Prize:
– CHF 2000 for each winner;
– The option to publish one paper free of charge in Genes after peer review before the end of 31 October 2023.

Eligibility and Requirements:
– Must be under 40 years of age or have received their Ph.D. no more than 8 years prior to 31 October 2021;
– Must have produced ground-breaking research and a significant contribution to the advancement of genetics and genomics research;
– Must be nominated by their supervisor(s), research director, or department head.

List of Documents for Nomination:
– A detailed Curriculum Vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;
– A copy of a birth certificate or other proof of age;
– A scanned copy of doctorate certificate;
– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

Schedule:
– Nominations open: March 2022;
– Nomination deadline: 31 October 2022;
– Winners announced: December 2022.

How to submit nominations?
The nominations must be submitted online.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Genes 2022 Best Paper Awards” for research and review articles published in Genes from 1st January 2020 to 31st December 2020. Three reviews and three research articles will each receive an award. Papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the Genes Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chiefs, and the winners will be announced in March 2022.

Eligibility for the awards:
– Papers published in Genes from 1st January 2020 to 31st December 2020;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal’s Award Committee according to the following criteria (data source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)):
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citation and download rates in 2021.

Prizes:
– First award (one for a review paper and one for a research paper): 500 CHF and a paper published for free in Genes;
– Second award (one for a review paper and one for a research paper): 300 CHF and a paper published for free in Genes;
– Third award (one for a review paper and one for a research paper): 200 CHF and a paper published for free in Genes;
– Each winner will also receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in March 2022.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. J. Peter W. Young, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously give their time to review papers submitted to Genes by presenting an award to those who have demonstrated exceptional dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for this journal.

What are the prerequisites to be eligible for this award?
All of the reviewers for Genes in 2021 will be automatically included.

What are the selection criteria?
– Number of review reports (only first review reports are considered);
– Review quality based on the rating given in SuSy;
– Review speed.

What will the winners receive?
This year, there will be five winners, and each will receive the following:
– CHF 500;
– The opportunity to publish a paper in Genes in 2022 without publication fees;
– An electronic certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced on the journal’s website at the end of March 2022.

How can I become eligible for future outstanding reviewer awards?
If you have not yet reviewed papers for Genes but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer through the following link:
https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Genes 2021 Best Paper Awards. All papers published from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019 in Genes were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the three winning papers, which were nominated by the journal’s Award Committee, have been selected and they are the following:

Article:
A High-Quality De novo Genome Assembly from a Single Mosquito Using PacBio Sequencing
Genes 2019, 10(1), 62; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10010062.

Review:
Eukaryotic 5-methylcytosine (m⁵C) RNA Methyltransferases: Mechanisms, Cellular Functions, and Links to Disease
Genes 2019, 10(2), 102; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10020102.

The winner (corresponding author) will receive an award of 600 CHF, a certificate, and an opportunity to publish free of charge in Genes before 31 December 2022, after the normal peer-review procedure.

Article:
Tree Lab: Portable Genomics for Early Detection of Plant Viruses and Pests in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Genes 2019, 10(9), 632; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10090632.

Review:
Transcription Factors Associated with Abiotic and Biotic Stress Tolerance and Their Potential for Crops Improvement
Genes 2019, 10(10), 771; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10100771.

The winner (corresponding author) will receive an award of 400 CHF, a certificate, and an opportunity to publish free of charge in Genes before 31 December 2022, after the normal peer-review procedure.

Genes Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the “Genes 2019–2020 Best Cover Awards”. In total, 24 cover stories published from 2019 to 2020 in Genes were considered for these awards.

The winners are as follows:

“Molecular Therapies for Inherited Retinal Diseases—Current Standing, Opportunities and Challenges”
Genes Volume 10, Issue 9 (September 2019)
(doi: 10.3390/genes10090654).

“Landscape Genomics of a Widely Distributed Snake, Dolichophis caspius
(Gmelin, 1789) across Eastern Europe and Western Asia”
Genes Volume 11, Issue 10 (October 2020)
(doi: 10.3390/genes11101218).

“BarkBase: Epigenomic Annotation of Canine Genomes”
Genes Volume 10, Issue 6 (June 2019)
(doi: 10.3390/genes10060433).

“The Value of Reference Genomes in the Conservation of Threatened Species”
Genes Volume 10, Issue 11 (November 2019)
(doi: 10.3390/genes10110846).

“Nanopore Targeted Sequencing for Rapid Gene Mutations Detection in Acute Myeloid Leukemia”
Genes Volume 10, Issue 12 (December 2019)
(doi: 10.3390/genes10121026).

The winners of the “Genes 2019–2020 Best Cover Awards” will receive 200 CHF each.

Congratulations to the winners for their excellent research!

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Genes 2020 Best Poster Awards IECGE2020. All posters selected form the 1st International Electronic Conference on Genes (IECGE2020) (https://sciforum.net/conference/ IECGE) were considered for the award. All attendees who complete a poster presentation will be eligible for this award. The Scientific Committee will judge the presentation clarity and scientific significance of the work presented. Two posters were selected as the winners:

Determination of expression signature and proportion of mtDNA in plasma fractions in patients with Renal Cell Carcinoma
By Elena Arance et al.
Proceedings 2021, 76, 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/IECGE-07148

Presented Poster: NGS screening for identification of novel pexophagy-related mutant in Arabidopsis thaliana
By Katarzyna Sieńko et al.
Proceedings 2021, 76, 7. https://doi.org/10.3390/IECGE-07155

The winner (corresponding author) will receive an award of 200 CHF and a certificate for each.

Genes Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Genes 2020 Best Paper Award IECGE2020. All papers published from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Genes (IECGE2020) (https://sciforum.net/conference/IECGE) were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation by the Scientific Committee based on originality/novelty of the paper, significance of content, scientific soundness and interest to the readers, one paper has been selected as the winner:

Genetic analysis algorithm for the study of patients with Multiple Congenital Anomalies and isolated Congenital Heart Disease
By Marisol Delea et al.
Proceedings 2021, 76, 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/IECGE-07151

The winner (corresponding author) will receive an award of 300 CHF, a certificate, and an opportunity to publish free of charge in Genes before 31 December 2021, after the normal peer-review procedure.

Genes Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Genes 2020 Young Investigator Awards are Dr. Federico Ariel and Dr. Flavia Angela Maria Maggiolini.

The Genes 2020 Young Investigator Award is firstly granted t Dr. Federico Ariel. He has established himself as an international leader through his outstanding work on the roles of noncoding RNAs in plants, and the laboratory that he has established continues to produce work of the highest quality.

The Genes 2020 Young Investigator Award also granted to Dr. Flavia Angela Maria Maggiolini. Still at an early stage in her career, she has developed and applied innovative experimental and computational methods for studying the roles of genomic inversions in humans and other primates, and has already authored a number of influential publications.

This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Federico Ariel and Dr. Flavia Angela Maria Maggiolini for their outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, both Dr. Federico Ariel and Dr. Flavia Angela Maria Maggiolini will receive an honorarium of CHF 1000, a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge without a fixed deadline in Genes after peer review.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent nominations.

Genes 2020 Young Investigator Award Evaluation Committee

The 2018 Genes Travel Awards have been granted to:

a. Andi Wilson, a Ph.D. student at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, for her work on the understanding of sexual reproduction in fungal plant pathogens of the Ceratocystidaceae family.

b. Dr. Jesus A Ballesteros, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, for his research on the molecular and developmental evolution of arachnids and other arthropods.

The awards consist of 800 Swiss Francs each, and are available for the winners to use for attendance and participation in any academic conference in 2018.

It is also my pleasure to announce that as part of the reward, Genes will offer the winners the oppor tunit y to publish a paper with the publication fees waived.

I would like to thank all applicants for their participation and interest in our journal.

The 2018 Genes Young Investigator Award is granted to Dr. Renato Polimanti, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Yale University School of Medicine, USA, whose research focuses on psychiatric genetics. Using a multidisciplinary approach that includes statistical and computational analysis, Dr. Polmanti has advanced our understanding in the genetic mechanisms of behavioural traits. As the awardee, Dr. Polimanti will receive an honorarium of 2000 Swiss Francs.

As Editor-in-Chief of Genes, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Genes Travel Awards.

The Evaluation Committee were very impressed with the high level of work presented and, after careful consideration, Travel Awards have been granted to:

Anna Esteve-Arenys, a Ph.D. student at the University of Barcelona, Spain, for her work on the development of novel combination therapies for double-hit lymphoma;

and to Dr. Marika Annika Kaakinen, a post-doctoral research associate at the Imperial College London, UK, working on the development of a novel method for the multi-phenotype analysis of rare genetic variants (MARV).

The awards consist of 800 Swiss Francs each, and are available for the winners to use for attendance and participation in any academic conference in 2017.

It is also my pleasure to announce that as part of the reward, Genes will offer the winners the opportunity to publish a paper with the publication fees waived.

I would like to thank all applicants for their participation and interest in our journal.