CIAC Best Paper Award
Inaugurated in 2009, the CIAC Best Paper Award is for the best paper on any aspect of cephalopod biology published in the scientific literature during the three years preceding each triennial conference.
Previous winners
Winner 2022
Chung W-S, Kurniawan ND, Marshall NJ (2021). Comparative brain structure and visual processing in octopus from different habitats. Current Biology 32(1):97-110.e4.
Winner 2018
Hoving HJT, Bush SL, Haddock SHD, Robison BH (2017). Bathyal feasting: post-spawning squid as a source of carbon for deep-sea benthic communities. Proc. R. Soc. B 284: 20172096.
Winner 2015
Albertin CB, Simakov O, Mitros T, Wang ZY, Pungor JR, Edsinger-Gonzales E, Brenner S, Ragsdale CW and Rokhsar DS (2015). The octopus genome and the evolution of cephalopod neural and morphological novelties. Nature, 524, 220-224.
Winner 2012
Arkhipkin AI, Bizikov VA and Fuchs D (2011). Vestigial phragmocone in the gladius points to a deepwater origin of squid (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 61, 109–122.
Winner 2009
Strugnell JM, Rogers AD, Prodöhl PA, Collins MA, Allcock AL (2008). The thermohaline expressway: Antarctica as a centre of origin for deep-sea octopuses. Cladistics, 24, 853-860.
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