Professor Craig Moritz has been awarded the prestigious Molecular Ecology Prize for 2012. This international prize is awarded by the editorial board of the journal Molecular Ecology to recognize significant contributions to this young and interdisciplinary area of research. A highlightof the prize winners is published in Molecular Ecology, which describes their contributiuons.

Image: Craig Moritz in the Australian Wet Tropics rainforest with a prickly forest skink, Gnypetoscincus queeslandiae. Photo courtesy of R. Bell.