Dear Colleagues,

The journal Genes (ISSN 2073-4425, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genes) will offer the Best Poster Award at the ECCB2020 “19th European Conference on Computational Biology” (https://eccb2020.info/), which will be held in September (5th-9th) in Sitges, Spain.

All attendees who complete a poster presentation will be eligible for this award. A team of Scientific Advisors will judge the presentation clarity and scientific significance of the work presented. The poster award is worth 1000 Euros prize.

Best regards,
Genes Editorial Office
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genes/awards

The journal Genes (ISSN 2073-4425, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genes) will offer 1st and 2nd Best Poster and Best Talk Awards at Neurofly 2020 “*18th European Drosophila Neurobiology Conference*” (https://neurofly2020.com/), which will be held in September (1st-4th) in Toledo, Spain.

All attendees who complete a poster presentation and talk will be eligible for these awards. Awards will be judged equally by a team of Scientific Advisors, and a prize of 300 Euros and 200 Euros will be granted to the 1st and 2nd prizes of both categories, respectively, on the basis of presentation clarity and scientific significance.

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.

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.

Have you ever considered guest editing one of our Genes Special Issues? We plan to give one of our guest editors a monetary award towards the cost of presenting their work at an international scholarly conference of their choice.

Our 2017 Guest Editor Award is in recognition of the scientific contribution of guest editors actively collaborating with us to bring the latest advances in the most trending research topics to Genes.

The award consists of 1200 CHF. All Special Issues completed in 2017 will be eligible for the 2017 Guest Editor Award in Genes. The editorial team will select it based on the number of submissions received in the various Special Issues and the quality of submissions.

The requirements of eligible Special Issues are:

1. Completed in 2017;
2. Minimum of 10 manuscripts published.

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.