Call for the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Award
We are excite to announce, that the call for nominations for the CNV award 2025 is open!
Each year the European Zebrafish Society hands out the CNV award to a person for her/his outstanding achievements in zebrafish research. This can be remarkable developments concerning new techniques within the zebrafish field, the publication of an outstanding paper, or significant contributions to the zebrafish community regarding, e.g. enabling infrastructure funding resources or establishing community services. The award is not restricted to a certain field of contribution and is open to anyone at any career stage, irrespective of their country of origin and residence.
EZS and IZFS discourage to nominate previous award winners of the respective other society such as the Streisinger or Chi-Bin Chien Award. This is something we kindly ask you to consider when selecting your candidate.
Who do you think should receive the next CNV award?
Everyone who holds an EZS membership is invited to submit nominations for next years CNV award winner.
Get involved by sending your nomination with the subject line “CNV award 2025” to office@ezsociety.org until November 15, 2024, supported by a short appraisal as a Word or PDF document (minimum 1/2 page). Nominations without an appraisal will not be taken into account. Appraisals are collected by the EZS office and forwarded to the Board Members. After careful evaluation and ranking of the candidates by each of the Board Members, the EZS office will assess the results and determine the winner.
The plan is to announce the CNV award at the European Zebrafish PI Meeting in Paris in April 2025.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Award
The Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Award honors the outstanding contribution in the field of genetics of the nobel prize winner Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. The award is given for outstanding achievements in Zebrafish research. This can be remarkable advances in new techniques within the Zebrafish field published in excellent papers, or outstanding contribution to the zebrafish community regarding infrastructure and funding resources.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner.
Nüsslein-Volhard developed the gradient theory, which represents how gene expression is controlled by substance gradients in the egg cell and the embryo, and showed parallels in embryonic development between insects and vertebrates. After insects, the zebrafish (Danio rerio) later became the first vertebrate to be the preferred subject of Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard's work in developmental biology. She won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis, for their research on the genetic control of embryonic development.