Paleobotanical or Developmental and Structural Section - Awarded Annually at the BSA Banquet


Award Recipients:

2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999

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2024 - No Award in 2024

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2023 - Madison Lalica, California Polytechnic University, Humboldt, For the Presentation: Probing the origin and evolution of periderm: what can extant plants and the fossil record tell us? Co-author: Mihai Tomescu

2022 - Keana Tang, University of Kansas, For the Presentation: Crown group Lauraceae in the Late Cretaceous: new evidence from fossil flowers. Co-Authors: Kelly Matsunaga, Brian Atkinson

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 2021 - Harold Suarez Baron, University of Antioquia, For the Presentation: Developmental and genetic mechanisms underlying trichome formation in the Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae: Piperales) perianth. Co-Authors: Favio González, Soraya Pelaz, Juan Fernando Alzate, Barbara Ambrose, and Natalia Pabon Mora

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2020 - Aleca Borsuk, Yale School of the Environment, for the presentation: Structural organization of the spongy mesophyll in laminar leaves with reticulate venation. Co-authors: Adam Roddy, Guillaume Theroux-Rancourt, and Craig Broderson

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2019 - Katie Nolan, Eastern Michigan University, For the presentation: Comparative morphology of the dimorphic leaf glands in carnivorous butterworts (Pinguicula L.) Co-authors: Kylie Bocklund, Tianying Lan, Crystal Tomlin, Todd Michael, Victor Albert, Tanya Renne

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2018 - No Maynard Moseley Award was awarded in 2018

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2017 - Maya Bickner, from the Humboldt State University for the paper "New fossils from the Battery Point Formation of Gaspé (Quebec, Canada) expand the anatomical diversity of Early Devonian euphyllophytes" Co-authors: Selin Toledo and Alexandru Tomescu

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2016 - Alex Bippus, from the Humboldt State University for the paper "Tiny ecosystems: bryophytes and other biotic interactions around an osmundaceous fern from the Eocene of Patagonia" Co-authors: Ignacio H Escapa and Alexandru Tomescu

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2015 - Stephanie Conway, from the University of Melbourne, Australia, for the paper "Surface analysis of cell division in the shoot apical meristem of gymnosperms" Co-author: Andrew Drinnan

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2014 - Fabiany Herrera, from the University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, for the paper "Revealing the Floristic and Biogeographic Composition of Paleocene to Miocene Neotropical Forests " Co-authors: Steven Manchester and Carlos Jaramillo

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2013 - Robert A. Stevenson, from the University of California - Berkeley
For his paper "Flight of the conifers: Reconstruction of the flight characteristics of Paleozoic winged conifer seeds" Co-authors: Dennis Evangelista and Cindy V Looy

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2012 - Alexander Bippus, from Humboldt State University,Advisor, Alexandru Tomescu
For his paper "Thalloid fossils comparable to bryophyte and fern gametophytes from the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian-Hauterivian) of Vancouver Island, British Columbia" Co-authors: Maria Friedman, Ruth Stockey, and Alexandru Tomescu

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2011 - John Benedict, from Arizona State University,Advisor, Kathleen Pigg,
For his paper "The fossil history of Zingiberales and new insights based on fossil and extant members."

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2010 - Natalie Pabon Mora, Graduate Center CUNY/ New York Botanical Garden
For the paper "The role of APETALA1/FRUITFULL genes in non-core eudicots." Her co-author was Amy Litt.

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2009 - Erin Bissell, University of Colorado
For the paper “Modular genetic architecture of floral morphology in Nicotiana: comparative phenotypic and quantitative genetic approaches to floral integration. ” Her co-author was Pamela K. Diggle.

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2008 - Eric Madrid, University of Colorado
For his paper “Female Gametophyte Developmental Evolution in Piperales. ” His co-author was Ned Friedman.

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2007 - Samuel F. Brockington, University of Florida
For his paper “Differing patterns of MADS-box gene expression associated with shifts in petaloidy within Aizoaceae (Caryophyllales)” Co-authors were Mike Frohlich, Paula J. Rudall, Douglas E. Soltis and Pamela S. Soltis.

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2006 - Yannick Staedler, Universität Zürich
For his paper “Floral architecture and phyllotaxis in Calycanthaceae (Laurales)” Co-authors were Peter H. Weston and Peter K. Endress.

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2005 - Erika Edwards, Yale University
For for her paper “Pereskia water relations reflect deep ecophysiological conservatism in Cactaceae.”.

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2004 - Athena McKown, University of Toronto
For for her her paper “Evolution of kranz anamomy in the genus Flaveria (Asteraceae).” Her co-authors were Jean-Marc Moncalvo and Nancy Dengler.

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2003 - Stefan Little, University of Alberta, Edmonton
For his paper "Permineralized fruits of Lauraceae from the Middle Eocene Princeton chert, British Columbia." Stefan's co-author was Ruth Stockey.

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2002 - Tatyana Livshultz, Cornell University
For her presentation in the Developmental and Structural Section entitled: "Comparative morphology and development of staminal coronas in Dischidia (Asclepiadoideae, Apocynaceae)."

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2001 - Maria Von Balthazar,
For her paper entitled "Floral structure and phylogeny of Buxaceae" co-authored by Peter Endress

Genero Hernandez-Castillo
For "Evidence from compound pollen cones in Paleozoic conifers" coauthored by Gar Rothwell and Gene Mapes.

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2000 - Sandra Floyd, University of Colorado
For her paper, co-authored with Ned Friedman, and entitled, "Endosperm development in Amborella trichopoda implications for the origin and early evolution of angiosperm reproductive biology."

Elizabeth Hermsen, Cornell University
For her paper, co-authored with William Crepet and Kevin Nixon and entitled, "A new fossil saxifragoid from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey."

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1998 - Michelle McMahon, Washington State University
For her paper entitled "Corolla-androecium synorganization in the flowers of the tribe Amorpheae (Fabaceae)," coauthored with Larry Hufford.

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1997 - Melinda Brad, University of Illinoisy
For her paper entitled "Exploring patterns in floral morphology: Mathematical modeling of floral development using an inhibitory morphogen and meristematic growth parameters."

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1996 - Ranessa Cooper, Truman State University
For her paper entitled "Comparative pollen morphology and ultrastructure of the Callitrichaceae."

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1995 - Susana Magallon-Puebla, University of Chicago and the Feild Museum of Natural History
For her paper entitled "Floral remains of Hamamelidaceae from Campanian strata of Georgia."

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