At the 48th Annual Meeting of the International Research Group on Wood Protection held in Ghent, Belgium, June 4-8, 2017, Liselotte De Ligne received the Richard J. Ziobro Award for the best scientific poster presentation of her contribution "Assessing nutrient value of bio-based materials in relation to early fungal growth development" (L. De Ligne, J. Van Den Bulcke, J.M. Baetens, B. De Baets and J. Van Acker).