📣 2026 winner of the JMS Prize:

⭐ Wendy Valencia-Montoya

🐝🌼 "...a tiny insect pollinator must find its rare host plant. How do they find each other? What signals and sensory systems allow them to communicate? And once they meet, how do insects survive feeding on plants packed with neurotoxins..."

Headshot of Wendy Valencia-Montoya. Text: Wendy Valencia-Montoya, 2026 Society for the Study of Evolution Dobzhansky Prize.

Congratulations to this year’s Dobzhansky Prize recipient, Dr. Wendy Valencia-Montoya! She will give the Dobzhansky Prize talk at #Evol2026 in Cleveland, OH in June. Learn more about her work: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...
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My PhD paper on my beloved cycads and beetles on the cover of Science!!!

Check out how we studied thermal infrared as a pollination signal, from molecular mechanisms to the wonders of behavior...

science.org/doi/10.1126/...