Awards

The Best Poster Award

1st place - 250€, 2nd place - 150 €, 3rd place - 100 €

The Best Poster Award of IPC recognizes the achievements of outstanding young scientists who are at the beginning of their career and who conduct basic or applied research on probiotics or prebiotics.

BPA will be presented by ICFMH – The International Committee on Food Microbiology and Hygiene of the IUMS, and will be presented to the presenting author of the best poster paper that fulfils the following criteria:

• the presenting author is PhD or PhD-student and under the age of 32
• application for Best Poster Award indicated at on-line abstract submission

The Scientific Committee of IPC, leaded by Prof Sin-Hyeog Im will elect the best poster paper and will be presented on Thursday, 30 June 2022.

The Scientific Committee of IPC, leaded by Prof Wilhelm Holzafpfel will elect the best poster paper and the award will be presented during the fourth day of the Conference.
BPA award has three prices from which the first price is 250€, the second price is 150€ and the third price is 100€.

BPA award is supported by the MDPI publisher (Microorganisms is a scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal of microbiology)

Poster Award winners 

1^st place: Yiannis Kourkoutas - Effect of a Novel Pediococcus acidilactici Strain on Obesity-Associated Insulin Resistance in a Short-Term High Fat Diet Mouse Model
2^nd place: Daniela Karasová - Host Species Adaptation of Obligate Gut Anaerobes is Dependent on Their Environmental Survival
3^rd place: Annachiara De Prisco - Strain-specific Production of GABA by Lactobacillus and Bifidobacteria Probiotics

Young Scientist Award /YSA

1st place - 1000€, 2nd place - 450 €, 3rd place - Free registration to IPC 2023 

The Young Scientist Award of IPC recognizes the achievements of outstanding young scientists who are at the beginning of their carrier and who conduct basic or applied research on probiotics or prebiotics.

The “Young Scientist Award of IPC” will be presented to the presenting author of the best oral paper that fulfils the following criteria:

• the presenting author is PhD and under the age of 32,
• The paper must be presented at plenary session of main Conference, (not at satellite symposia)
• application for Young Scientist Award indicated at on-line abstract submission.

YSA award has three prices from which the first price is 1000€, the second price is 450€ and the third price is a Free registration IPC 2023.

The Scientific Committee of IPC will elect the best paper and the award will be presented during the Thursday, 30 June 2022.

Young Scientist Award winners 

1^st place: Yuri Lee - Verification of the Anti-depressive Effect of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum APsulloc331261 in vivo
2^nd place: Joanna Ivy I. Fugaban - Enterococci-produced antimicrobials: antimicrobial and antifungal properties
3^rd place: Hye-Shin Kim - Oral Administration of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum APsulloc331261 Inhibits Mucin Hypersecretion by Stimulating Butyrate Production in a Murine Allergic Airway Inflammation Model