RCSB PDB Poster Prize for Student Presentations

Poster Prize Overview

In 2008, the following prizes were awarded:

ACA

The award at the American Crystallographic Association's Annual Meeting (May 31 - June 5, 2008; Knoxville, TN) went to Wei Yong for "X-ray crystallographic studies of pig sarcosine dehydrogenase" (Wei Yong, Ila Misra, Jung-Ja Kim, Medical College of Wisconsin).

Judges: Robert Rose (Chair; North Carolina State University); Gloria E.O. Borgstahl (Eppley Institute for Cancer Research and Allied Diseases); Antonella Longo (North Carolina State University); Robert McKenna (University of Florida); Joseph E Wedekind (University of Rochester).

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ISMB

The award at the 16th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (July 19-23, 2008; Toronto, Canada) went to Dariya Glazer for "Clustering Across Space and Time" (Dariya Glazer, Randy Radmer, Russ Altman, Stanford University).

Judges: Marco Punta (Committee Chair), Yana Bromberg, Columbia; Matteo Dal Peraro, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; Claudia Dall'Armi, Columbia; Marco DeVivo, Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Zsuzsanna Dosztanyi, Markus Fischer, Laszlo Kajan, Andrew Kernytsky, Rajesh Nair, Avner Schlessinger, Ta-tsen Soong, Columbia University. Thanks also to the International Society for Computational Biology, particularly Steven Leard.

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IUCr

At the XXI Congress & General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (August 23 - 31 in Osaka, Japan), the award went to "Structural insights into the mitochondrial import complex, TIM9.10" by Chaille T. Webb,^1,2 Michael Baker,¹ Michael T. Ryan,¹ Peter M. Colman,¹ and Jacqueline M. Gulbis¹
(¹The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and ²The University of Melbourne, Australia).

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