TSL Prizes 2025
Each autumn, during the visit of TSL's Scientific Advisory Board, we take the opportunity to celebrate the impressive contributions of our staff and students through the TSL Prizes. Everyone at TSL has the opportunity to nominate a colleague, whether working in research or support, who they felt should be recognised for their impact in Research or Engagement.
Award Categories
- Research
Recognizing significant achievements such as discoveries, preprints, publications, patents, and critical contributions to funding or outputs. - Engagement
Celebrating impactful activities beyond research, including presentations, posters, public engagement, teaching, business-critical tasks, and efforts that enhance TSL life through scientific or social initiatives.
TSL Prizes Autumn 2025
Student Research
Fabio Dos Santos Barbosa for taking the initiative to develop more ethical and sustainable laboratory protocols alongside exceptional technical skills to progress research.
Student Engagement
Mark-Jave Bautista for teamwork, research presentations, and supporting early career researchers including recruiting, training and evaluating MSc students.
Postdoc Research
Benjamin Seager for rapid research progress using high-level cryo-EM expertise integrated with genetics and biochemistry leading to new mechanistic understanding.
Diana Gomez De La Cruz for engineering a chimeric immune receptor using AlphaFold to combine two immune specificities in one to confer robust resistance.
Postdoc Engagement
Yu Sugihara for sharing high-level computational expertise in UAE and Tunisia and with Google DeepMind on projects that are of benefit to the community through either open science or potential new ventures.
Agnieszka Witek for sustained and impactful engagement with policymakers and the public on GM crops including PotatoPlus.
Support Research
Neil Stammars & Liz Hughes for supporting all of TSL’s research so effectively, their enthusiastic support of 11 T-Level students that has enhanced TSL’s reputation as an exemplar host, and their contributions as Mental Health First Aiders and TSL Buddies.
Justine Smith for managing disease outbreaks, outreach events, and for applying her specialist expertise to projects in other research groups.
Support Research and Engagement
Phon Green for sustained support of two research groups at a high level particularly with monocots and Arabidopsis, making crosses, meticulously managing over 1,200 seed lines, and for teaching others.
Support Engagement
Adeline Harant, uniquely having won in a category for the second time with additional contributions, for her leading role in the recent TSL Fun Day and for being a mentor, supporting people through tough times.
Poster prizes and Pumpkin Carving Contest
This year, we also celebrated students who won poster prizes at our Annual Scientific Meeting, as well as a talented colleague who carved the most-voted pumpkin on Halloween.
ASM Student Poster Prizes
TSL Pumpkin Carving Prize
