Best Talks & Best Posters

Every year at ICYMARE, participants vote for the talks and posters that impressed them most. Scientific quality, originality, clarity, and even humor all play a role in the selection. With 96 talks and 40 posters presented at ICYMARE 2025 BREMERHAVEN, the choice wasn’t easy. But in the end, a few presentations stood out.

Here are this year’s awardees:

Best Talks

1^st: Tanya Toofany (University of Bremen, Germany) – “Snails in a hot spot: Increased feeding rates and new coral prey on the agenda for Drupella cornus in Mauritius”

2^nd: Benedikt Merk (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) – “Networking under pressure: How the environment shapes fish grouping structures”

3^rd: Alizée Wagner (La Trobe University, Australia) – “How sea snakes feel the world: Ecological implications on mechanoreception in Hydrophis sea snakes”

Best Posters:

1^st: Micah Reismann (Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Germany) – “Egg-sposing cold cases: Investigating mortality peaks in early development of polar cod”

2^nd: Jana Hüller (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany) – “Combined influence of temperature and dissolved N:P ratios on nutrient limitation in a North Sea phytoplankton community

3^rd: Paul Dreger (University of Bologna, Italy) – “Improving eDNA detection in sponge natural samplers using blocking primers”

Each winner received a €200 book voucher, kindly provided by Springer Nature. Congratulations to all awardees, and thanks to all who shared their work at ICYMARE 2025 BREMERHAVEN.