Cave Young Investigator Poster Prize

Background

This is awarded for the best poster presented by an attendee, normally of relatively junior status, at the Spring/Summer Meeting (unless this meeting is held jointly with another society).

Eligibility

The work presented shall have been carried out while the first author was an undergraduate or postgraduate student and presented within 1 year of the award of the Doctorate. Member of the Society or non-member.

Awarded

Annually at the Spring/Summer meeting of the Society.

Queries

For further information contact the Meetings Officer at: meetings@anatsoc.org.uk

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Previous Awards of Cave Poster Prize

2019 Award

Cave Young Investigator Award Joint Best Poster Award Summer 2019
Title	‘Anatomical Design of a tissue engineered model of the human flexor digitorum profundus enthesis’
Submitted by	Dr Jeremy Mortimer, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh PHOTO
Title	‘Factors influencing students use of technology enhanced learning’
Submitted by	Ms Lauren Clunie, Leeds University, Leeds

Cave Young Investigator Joint Runner - Up Best Poster Award Summer 2019
Title	‘Etiology of Pseudoconclusion phenomenon of pseudoreplication in human anatomical research’
Submitted by	Mr Christopher Johnson, Missouri Southern State University, Missouri
Title	‘Evolution and morphology of the tetrapod brachial plexus’
Submitted by	Ms Rebecca Cook, York College of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania

2018 Award

Cave Young Investigator Award (Joint Best Poster Award) Summer 2018
Title	‘Old bones, new tricks? An anatomical role for adipocytes in human bone formation’
Submitted by	Ms Rebecca Hanlon-Shepherd Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University PHOTO
Title	‘Developing an ex vivo model of peripheral nerve injury in a range of muscles from mice to investigate the factors that regulate the rate of Wallerian Degeneration’
Submitted by	Ms Alannah Mole Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh PHOTO

2017 Award

CAVE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR BEST POSTER AWARD SUMMER 2017
Title:	‘Cellular development is altered in the embryonic and postnatal rat spinal cord following maternal immune activation’
Submitted by:	Ms Rebecca Anderson, Limerick University, Ireland

CAVE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR JOINT RUNNER-UP BEST POSTER AWARDS SUMMER 2017
Title:	‘A link between worlds: Loss of cytoplasmic keratins downregulates nuclear lamins and compromises the nuclear lamina integrity’
Submitted by:	Mr Ciaran Butler-Hallissey,ÅboAkademi University, Finland
Title:	‘The use of Chondroitinase ABC in an ex vivo rat model of spinal cord injury’
Submitted by:	Mr Azim Patar, National University Ireland, Galway
Title:	‘An anatomical investigation into the flexibility of the temporomandibular joint between formalin-fixed, fresh frozen and Theil fixed specimens’
Submitted by:	Ms Charlotte Quinn, University of Liverpool

2016 Award

Winner Summer 2016

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Eleanor Walder

CAVE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR BEST POSTER AWARD SUMMER 2016
Title:	‘An experimental test in vivo of the molecular basis of spinal nerve segmentation in the chick embryo’
Submitted by:	Miss Eleanor Walder, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University

CAVE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR RUNNER-UP BEST POSTER AWARD SUMMER 2016

Title:

‘Exploring Spatial Ability, Stereopsis, Manual Dexterity and Spatial Awareness Training on First and Second Year Medical Students’

Submitted by:

Mr Rene Gonzales, Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS), University of Sussex

2015 Award

Winner Winter 2015

The Anatomical Society Cave Young Investigator Award (Best Poster Award) 2015 was awarded at the Winter Meeting of the Society in December 2015 to Mr Richard Cumpsty, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK for his paper, ‘Differences in the structure of the walls of cerebral arteries in the white matter compared to grey matter and the significance for Alzheimer’s disease’.

(The award is usually made at the Society's Summer Meeting however in 2015 the Society did not hold a Summer Meeting as it was a Guest Society at the AAA meeting in Boston in April 2015).

2014 Award

Winner Summer 2014

Cave Young Investigator Poster Prize Summer Meeting 2014 has been awarded to:

Dr Eerik Aunin, University of Bradford, for his poster, ‘Exploring a role for regulatory miRNAs in skin wound healing’.

Cave Young Investigator Runner-Up Poster Prize Summer Meeting 2014 has been awarded to:

Mr Joseph Ciano, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, for his poster ‘Variation in the distribution of Meissner’s corpuscles in human fingers’.

Ms Rhea Tummon, University of Edinburgh, for her poster ‘Phenotypic analysis of progenitor cells in the dentate gyrus throughout development’.

2013 Award

Winner Summer 2013

The Cave Young Investigator Poster Prize Summer 2013 was awarded to Ms Elaine Quinlan (RCSI) for her poster, 'Growth factor eluting mircoparticle loaded collagen-hydroxyapatite scaffolds'.

2012 Award

Winner Best Student Poster - Summer 2012

Sarah Roche

The Joint Meeting of the Anatomical Society of the UK and Sociedad Anatómica Española
Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh, Scotland 10th-12th July 2012

Sarah Roche, PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Professor Tom Gillingwater accepts her Cave Young Investigator Award (Best Student Poster) from President D. Ceri Davies for her poster titled: Loss of glial neurofascin 155 delays developmental synapse elimination in the mouse peripheral nervous system.

2011 Award

Poster Prize Winner 2011

JOINT MEETING OF THE ANATOMICAL SOCIETIES, 19TH TO 22ND MAY 2011, BURSA, TURKEY

Prize Awarded to:

Ramazan Uygur (Namik Kemal University School of Medicine, Tekirdag, Turkey) for the poster entitled 'Effects of n-3 fatty acids on testicular injury induced by ethanol in rats'.

and

Mugurel-Constantin Rusu (Carola Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania) for the poster entitled 'Interstitial cells of the human trigeminal ganglion - a TEM study'.