MSI would like to congratulate Prof Alan Welsh for receiving Honorary Life Membership of the International Biometric Society (IBS) in 2017 and Dr Francis Hui for winning the best Best JABES Paper by an IBS Member for 2017.

Dr Hui's paper was entitled “Generalized Linear Latent Variable Models for Multivariate Count and Biomass Data in Ecology”, and it was co-authored alongside Jenni Niku, David I. Warton and Sara Taskinen. 

Congratulations!