STUDENT	TAXON	TITLE
1999 WINNERS
Jordon Pon	Arthropoda/ Chelicerata/ Pycnogonida	Ecdysteroids from Pycnogonum litorale (Arthropoda, Pantopoda) act as chemical defense against Carcinus maenas (Crustacea, Decapoda) (view)
Mike McLaren	Arthropoda/ Uniramia/ Insecta	Visual deprivation and distance estimation in the praying mantis larva (view)
Kerry Hilton	Arthropoda/ Chelicerata/ Arachnida	The antipredatory efficiency of spider leg autotomy (view)
Chad Graves	Mollusca/ Cephalopoda/ Decapoda	Bacterial symbionts colonize the accessory nidamental gland of the squid Loligo opalescens via horizontal transmission (view)
Tracy Gartner	Mollusca/ Gastropoda/ Pulmonata	Courtship and dart shooting behaviour of the land snail, Helix aspersa (view)
2000 WINNERS
Luc Barton	Bryozoa/ Gymnolaemata	A pelagic bryozoan from Antarctica (view)
Lisa Cockburn	Cnidaria/ Anthozoa	Increased survivorship in corals harboring crustacean symbionts (view)
Layla Neufeld	Echinodermata/ Holothuroidea	Maintaining the line of defense: Regeneration of Cuverian tubules in the sea cucumber Holothuria forskali (view)
Arianna Verbitsky	Pogonophora/ Vestimentifera	Physiological ecology of sulfide metabolism in hydrothermal vent and cold seep vesicomyid clams and vestimentiferan tube worms (view)
Katherine Vladicka	Mollusca/ Cephalopoda/ Coleoidea	Development of symbiotic bacterial bioluminescence in a nearshore cephalopod, Euprymna scolopes (view)
Honorable Mention:		Mike Bonikowsky, Alison Grootenboer, Gloria Kang, Michelle Madriaga, Nick Maglisceau, Meghan Vesey.
2001 WINNERS		(selected by Graeme Taylor)
Shereen Hamza	Cnidaria/ Hydrozoa	Unveiling the mystical fountain of youth: Continuous cellular renewal and potential immortality in Hydra (view)
Kristin Benedek	Mollusca/ Bivalvia	Shipworm symbiosis with bacteria (view)
Jasmine Chee	Mollusca/ Cephalopoda	Development of the light organ of the squid Euprymna scolopes (view)
Angela Eykelbosh	Pogonophora/ Vestemintifera/	The challenge of deep-sea living: Pogonophorans can satisfy the requirements of respiration (view)
Jennifer Karst	Annelida/ Oligochaeta	Unique respiratory adaptations of the African swamp worm, Alma emini (view)
Honorable Mention:		Leah Prokuda (Octopus learning by observing others), Tonya Seto (physiological adaptations of deep-sea vampire squid).
2002 WINNERS
Sylvie Tissander	Platyhelminthes/ Turbellaria/ Polycladida	Warning coloration: Batesian or Mullerin mimicry in Pseudoceros flatworms (view)
Kate Witkowska	Mollusca/ Gastropoda/ Pulmonata	Behavioral significance of bioluminescence in a terrestrial snail, Dyakia striata (view)
Michael Goad	Pogonophora/ Vestemintifera	Life at the bottom: Bacterial symbiosis in the tube worm Riftia (view)
Kim Emsley-Leik	Arthropoda/ Chelicerata/ Arachnida	The predatory and sexual behavior in orb-weaving spiders: A brutal coincidence (view)
Don Murray	Arthropoda/ Insecta/ Lepidoptera	Physiological adaptations to hovering flight in Manduca sexta (view)
Honorable Mention:		Ronny Bekdashe (detection of prey by predatory leeches), Alyssa Butters (function of butterfly cocoons), Nick Fairbridge (behavior of Japanese slave-making ants), Leah Hassall (function of coloniality in orb-weaving spiders), Natalie Hayes (octopus play), Heather Heise (brittle-star alarm signaling) Ed Hill (functioning of squid chromatophores), Bryanne Johnston (firefly defensive chemicals), Bryce Kelly (uptake of nematocysts by sea-slugs), Shantal Koenig (slave-making ant behavior), Andrea Lehman (uptake of chloroplasts by sea-slugs), Elena Liew (intraspecific signaling by cuttlefish), Richard Mackell (hermit crab shell choice battles), Naomi Man in't Veld (host selection by anemone shrimp), Erin Maxwell (detection of polarized light by cuttlefish), Lisa Mohninger (larval settlement of echiura dwarf males), Melissa Tesche (starfish arm regeneration), Jarret Voytilla (tactile foraging by octopus), Andrew Wiens (coconut-crab salt regulation and air-breathing).
2004 WINNERS
Aleksandra Argals	Mollusca/ Gastropoda/ Opisthobranchia	How a sea slug that lives in anemone tentacles defends against nematocysts (view)
Sarah Ngo	Mollusca/ Bivalvia/ Pteriomorphia	Intertidal mussels vary the strength of their byssal threads depending on the season (view)
Marie-Claire St-Jacques	Mollusca/ Cephalopoda/ Coleoidea	The dimorphic, asymmetrical eyes of the squid Histioteuthis (view)
Sara Hartfeil	Arthropoda/ Crustacea/ Malacostraca	Defense and alarm response to chemical cues in the amphipod Gammarus (view)
Julie Woodward	Arthropoda/ Insecta/ Hymenoptera	Farming ants: How they manage 'agricultural pests' and group living (view)
Honorable Mention:		Danny Aceytuno (octopus play), Tara Jamison (crab/shrimp symbiosis), Lauren MacKenzie (aversive learning in a terrestrial slug), Raissa Petriw (function of sea-hare ink), Douglas Quilty (color vision in mantis shrimp)
2005 WINNERS
Carol Frost	Arthropoda/ Crustacea/ Decapoda	Pagurus hermit crabs can recognize and remember shells and other crabs that they have seen in the past! (view)
Hernan Martinez	Arthropoda/ Crustacea/ Decapoda	Plasticity of hermit crab form in response to differences in the snail shell inhabited (view)
Lee Axford	Cnidaria/ Anthozoa	Individual recognition and aggression by Actinia (view)
Anthony Espejo	Arthropoda/ Chelicerata/ Arachnida	Male Latrodectus widow spiders tear off their genitalia to mate (view)
Melissa Lo	Mollusca/ Cephalopoda/ Coleoidea	Erectile tissue in Octopus hectocotylus (view)
Honorable Mention:		Christine Gruman (glass sponge feeding and conduction), Shiela Holmes (selective feeding in Pisaster), Melissa Kormos (pollen feeding by young preying mantis), Yoko Ito (mating behaviour in blue-ring octopus), Natasha Larison (hermit crab shell selection), Shannon Leblanc (snapping shrimp claw regeneration), Daniel Lirette (water detection by desert scorpions), Dennis Poddoubtchenko (cone snail form and evolution), Kyle Shapka (the mind control wasp), Janaya Van Kleeck (regeneration in holothurians), Amy Zylstra (cryptobiosis in tardigrades)
2007 WINNERS
Kristin Bianchini	Arthropoda/ Chelicerata/ Arachnida	Living with the enemy: Jumping spiders that mimic weaver ants (view)
Erin Chorney	Arthropoda/ Mollusca/ Gastropoda	Evolution of feeding modes in venomous cone snails (view)
Alissa Goodin	Porifera/ Demospongia	Rolling sponges of the genus Tethya (view)
Phil Kowalczyk	Mollusca/ Bivalvia/ Pteriomorphia	How scallop shell form reduces drag in swimming scallops (view)
Tetsuto Miyashita	Arthropoda/ Uniramia/ Insecta	Trap-jaw ants use their explosive jaw motion to catch prey and escape predators (view)
Honorable Mention:		Raza Anwar (traumatic insemination by bed bugs), Adam Cembrowski (Sexual habits in the spider Nephila: cannibalism, genital plugs), Nicole Chernyk (mysterious ink in the genus Aplysia), Katrina Field (sea slug adaptations for eating anemones), Namhyuk Kim (an octopus that steals man-of-war tentacles for its own defense), Wilfred Lam (assessment of claw size by competing snapping shrimp), Joelle Lemmen (nematodes change behaviours in snail hosts), Heather McCorry (cuttlefish learning), Candice Slevinsky (mating behaviour of jumping spiders and more!), Joshua Wan (fish-eating cone snails)
2009 WINNERS
Randi Glen	Cnidaria/ Hydrozoa/ Hydroida	Reversing life cycle in the hydrozoan Turritopsis nutricula (view)
Tan Lin	Arthropoda/ Uniramia/ Insecta	Bacterial origin of ant-lion salivary venom (view)
Kye Mykietiak	Arthropoda/ Crustacea/ Hoplocarida	Bluffing defense by newly molted stomatopods (view)
Jeffrey Narayan	Tardigrada/ Eutardigrada	Effect of anydrobiosis on tardigrade longevity (view)
Nicole Severin	Cnidaria/ Medusozoa/ Cubozoa	Vertebrate-like eyes in the box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora (view)
Honorable Mention:		Katryna Benedik (mating behavior & palp loss in jumping spiders), Chantel Brust (evolutionary adaptations of tardigrades to extreme environmental conditions), Katrina Burrows (a sea slug that steals cnidocytes from its hydrozoan prey), Iona Cherian (water flow and oxygenation efficiency in bi-pectinate ctenidia of abalone), Adam Capewell (inking behavior to escape predation in octopus), Nikqueta Chojnacki (the amazing flexibility and mobility of the common octopus arm), Ryan Henriques (mating behaviours and sexual selection in the hermaphroditic sea slug Aplysia), Adrian Kense (vision and mating in horseshoe crabs), Alison Kroeker (arm loss and regeneration in the starfish Asterias), Jamie Lantz (sea slug defenses against nematocysts in their prey), Nicole Martin (coral symbionts & adaptation to global warming), Molly Patterson (survival of nematodes in the Antarctic), Sean Prokopiw (chemical defensive signals by symbiotic ants), Tara Stach (creation, storage and action of deadly venom from blue-ringed octopus), Layla Witschi (the role of vivid coloration in the genus Pseudoceros), Richard Zhou (caterpillars choose foods that help defend against parasites).
2014 WINNERS
Emily Sunwoo	Mollusca/ Gastropoda Opisthobranchia	Kleptoplasty of chloroplasts by the sea slug Elysia (view)
Neha Vatnani	Mollusca/ Gastropoda Opisthobranchia	Defensive ink of the sea slug Aplysia californica (view)
Victoria Giacobbo	Mollusca/ Cephalopoda/ Decapoda	Sexual mimicry in cuttlefish (view)
Valerie Marshall	Annelida/ Polychaeta	Development and dispersal in whale-bone eating worms (Osedax) (view)
Heather Stewart	Annelida/ Polychaeta	Function of setae during errant polychaete locomotion (view)
Honorable Mention:		Gauri Akolkar (mechanisms of anhydrobiosis in tardigrades), Callista Anderson (bioluminescent communication in fireflies), Dhakshayini Boopalan (iridescence in Sapphirina copepods), Nicole Boucher (learning and preference in cuttlefish, Sepia), Iven Chen (adaptive camouflage in cuttlefish, Sepia), Kate Faulder (female bedbug defenses against traumatic insemination), Evan Freitas (regeneration and immortality of Hydra), Allana Irvine (swimming escape response of the sea anemone Stomphia), Andrew Kennedy (scorpion reaction to light and fluorescence), Jenny Kleininger (spanner crab burrowing morphology and ecology), Kirsten Lupul (sensory structures in Nautilius), Ewa Makarewicz (cuttlefish camouflage response to visual cues), Kiana Matwichuk (anemone (Calliactis) symbiosis with hermit crabs), Jennifer Nichols (The destructive dactyl of hammering stomatopods), Thomas Nilson (adaptations of deadly box jellyfish), Taylor Parenteau (non-random mating in the cuttlefish, Sepia), Ramona Rosca (life history of the isopod parasite that lives in fish mouths), Alyshia Skurdal (camouflage abilities in cuttlefish).
2015 WINNERS
Craig Simpson	Placozoa	Epithelial fine structure in a puzzling evolutionary intermediate: Trichoplax (view)
John Dobson	Ctenophora	How do Beroe close their very large mouths? (view)
David Larsen	Pogonophora/ Vestimentifera	Symbiotic bacteria permit survival of hydrothermal vent worms (view)
Denise Maranga	Arthropoda/ Crustacea/ Hoplocarida	Fast forward swimming by mantis shrimp (view)
Chauntel Nordquist	Arthropoda/ Crustacea/ Decapoda	Shell size limits the maximum body size of hermit crabs (view)
Honorable Mention:		Ubah Are (defense and escape behaviours of cuttlefish), Michael Bodnar (predatory adaptations in basket stars), Lauralise Buss (coconut use for protection by veined octopus), Parham Ighani (sexual dimorphism in fiddler crabs), Sunghee Jee (control of iridescent coloration in blue-ringed octopus) Max Kinsella (sperm transfer in Japanese pygmy squid), Malcolm Leppard (male parental care in sea spiders), Evan Lock (cuttlefish camouflage), Cassidy Margolis (function of acrorhagi (fighting tentacles) in the anemone, Anthopleura), Emily Moore (bee dance communication), Colin Poitras (feeding adaptations of giant, deep-sea isopods), Robyn Shinkaruk (function of the macronucleus and micronucleus in Paramecium), Thane Smith (adaptive significance horn size in alternative male forms of the beetle Onthophagus), Henri Valiquette (mucus defense against nematocysts in an anemone-eating sea slug).

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