Past awards

Deputy Chair Peter Shepherd presented six Biochemical Journal Young Investigator awards to the following:

Megan Bird, University of Melbourne, Australia for her paper entitled
"Regulation of PTEN by c-src"

Kristy Horan, Monash University, Australia for her paper entitled
"Investigating the role of the 72 kDa 5' phosphatase in phagocytosis"

Dominic Ng, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, Singapore for his paper entitled
"Stat 3 regulation of SCLIP and E-cadherin"

Markus Reschke, Max Plank Institute, Munich for his paper entitled
"Mig 6 is a negative regulator of Her family of receptor tyrosine kinases"

Alexander Tups, university of Otago, New Zealand for their paper entitled
"The molecular identity of seasonal changes in leptin sensitivity in hamsters"

Haley Bennet, Garvan Institute, Sydney for her paper entitled
"Co-operation between the docking protein Gab-2 and src in transforming epithelial cells"

18th International Congress on Fibrinolysis and Proteolysis: Proteolysis in the Postgenomic Era

San Diego CA

27-31 August 2006

Biochemical Journal Editor Sharon Stack presented Cyril Barinka, NCI - Frederick, USA and Pauline Marx, University of Amsterdam the Biochemical Journal Young Investigator Awards at this meeting.

Mike Walsh presented the Biochemical Journal Young Investigator Award to Rosalyn Johnson for her poster entitled:

"Identification of a novel protein kinase A phosphorylation site, S449, on the delayed rectifier potassium channel, Kv1.2"

BioScience2006 - bioscience for the 21st century

23-27 July 2006

Glasgow, UK

Professor George Banting presented the Biochemical Journal Young Investigator Award to
Dr Patrick Kiely for his poster entitled:

"IGF-I Controls a Mutually Exclusive Association of RACK1 with Protein Phosphatase 2A and B1 Integrin to Promote Cell Migration"

FASEB Summer Research Conference - Phospholipases

Vermont USA

8-13 July 2006

Michael Wakelam presented the Biochemical Journal Young Investigator Award to Akiko Kobayashi for her poster entitled:

"Novel interaction of phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate 5-kinase gamma661 with AP-2 complex is essential for synaptic vesicle endocytosis"

Translation UK 2006

University of Newcastle

3-5 July 2006

Graham Pavitt presented the first of two awards to Stephen Moran, Oxford University, for his Oral presentation on "Mechanical explanation of RNA pseudoknot function in programmed ribosomal frameshifting".

The second award was presented to Rachel Allison, University of Cambridge, for her poster entitled "Characterization of the Vg1 mRNA localization complex during Xenopus Oogenesis".

12th Tenovus - Scotland Symposium

Stability and Regulation of Genes and Genomes

Glasgow, UK

6-7 April 2006

Iain Davidson, University of Dundee was presented the Biochemical Journal Young Investigator Award for an outstanding poster presented by a young researcher.

Biochemical Society Annual Symposium

The Cell Biology of Inositol Lipids and Phosphates

29 - 31 March 2006

Birmingham, UK

Professor Bob Michell presented:

Natalia Fili, Cancer Research UK, London the Biochemical Journal poster prize for an outstanding poster presented by a young researcher, for her poster entitled:

'Compartmental signal modulation: Ptdins3P levels locally determine morphology and cargo sorting in early endosomes' (N. Fili, V. Calleja, R. Woscholski, P.J. Parker and B. Larijani).

Dr Rene Jorgensen, a researcher in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada was awarded a Biochemical Journal Travel Bursary to attend the annual ASBMB meeting in San Francisco in April 2006 where he presented a poster entitled: "Closing the lid on the mono-ADP-ribosylating reaction mechanism by bacterial toxins"

Find out more about Rene's experiences of ASBMB here

46th International Conference on the Bioscience of Lipids

20-25 September 2005

Corsica

Dr Paul Grimaldi presented the award to Dr. Safouane Hamdi, INSERM, France, for his poster entitled 'Role of phospholipase D2 in human leukaemic development'.

40th South Eastern Regional Lipids Conference

2-4 November 2005

Cashiers NC

Dr Sharon Schendel (Administrative Editor, US Office) presented the award to Talar Kechichian Medical University of South Carolina, USA, for her poster entitled 'Glucosylceramide is required for virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans'

30th FEBS Congress and 9th IUBMB Conference

Budapest, Hungary

2-7 July 2005

Carol MacKintosh presented the award to:

Ana O'Loghlen, University of Madrid, Spain, for her poster entitled 'Reversion of the hydrogen peroxide-induced modification of eukaryotic initiation factor 4F activity by N-acetyl-cysteine involves distinct signaling pathways'

FASEB Summer Research Conference - Lysophospholipid Mediators in Health and Disease

11-16 June 2005

Snowmass Village, Colorado

Nicholas Machesky, Ohio State University, Columbus, for his poster entitled: "Cytomegalovirus induced increase in sphingosine kinase activity is required for optimal viral gene expression"

Laurens van Meeteren, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, for his poster entitled: "Autotaxin: regulation of activity and role in development"

First Congress of the International BioIron Society

22-27 May, 2005

Prague, Czech Republic

Professor Des Richardson presented the award to:

Jaime Cheah, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA, for her poster entitled "Dexras 1 regulates transferrin mediated iron trafficking in the brain"

6th International Proteasomes Workshop

24 - 26 April, 2005

Clermont Farrand, France

The Biochemical Journal sponsored a Young Investigators Award at the 6th International Proteasomes Workshop, held at Clermont Farrand, France, 24 - 26 April, 2005.

The winner was Dr. Yuko Hirano, Department of Molecular Oncology, The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, who was awarded the prize by Professor Didier Attaix.

Xth International Workshop on the Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plasminogen Activation Conference

9-13 April, 2005

Washington DC, USA

The Biochemical Journal sponsored a Young Investigators Award at the recent Xth International Workshop on the Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plasminogen Activation Conference, held in Washington DC, USA, 9-13 April.

The winner was Erin Norris from Sidney Strickland's Laboratory at The Rockefeller University, New York, with her poster entitled: 'Modulation of the tPA/PAI-1 System by Stress'. Biochemical Journal Editor Sharon Stack presented the award.

At the ASBMB Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, 2-6 April 2005, the four winners were announced:

Katherine L Baldwin (Lewis & Clark College) The evolution of sphingomyelinase D within Loxosceles venom.  

		Professor Guy Salvesen, Vice Chair The Americas, presenting Katherine Baldwin with her certificate

Ronald L. Coleman (California State University, Fullerton) Expression of single chain antibody variable regions against the botulinum neurotoxin in the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Yun K. Kwon (Lebanon Valley College) Conformative responses in E.coli GMP synthase

Jordan M. Newell (Lebanon Valley College) Structural organization in E.coli GMP synthase

Each winner received a certificate, a cheque for $250 and some Biochemical Journal gifts.

The number of posters presented this year was a record 118; they were judged by a panel chaired by M. Benore-Parsons, P.A. Ortiz, J. Provost and M Wallert.

The undergraduate students assembled at the awards presentation ceremony

Two Biochemical Journal Young Investigator Awards were presented at the 39th SouthEastern Regional Lipid Research Conference held in Cashiers NC from 3-5 November 2004.

The winners were Preeti Subramanian, Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University and Eric Lewis, Department of Biochemistry at Wake Forest University. Dr Sharon Schendel, Administrative Editor, Biochemical Journal US office, presented the awards.

Three Biochemical Journal Young Investigator Awards were presented at the Fifth Annual Joint Meeting of the Great Lakes GPCR retreat and the Club des Récepteurs à Sept Domaines Transmembranaires, held in Quebec.

The winners were Kevin Holmes, Robarts Institute, London, Ontario; Jennifer Bomberger, Michigan State University; and Celine Galés, University of Montreal, Quebec. Dr Richard Leduc, BJ editor, presented the Awards.

Three Biochemical Journal Young Investigator Awards were presented at the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ComBio 2004 conference held in Perth, 26 - 30 September 2004, for posters presented in the fields of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Plant Sciences; and Cell and Developmental Biology:

ASBMB:
Mr Edwin Wong, Department of Genetics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
P-type ATPase heavy metal transporter genes involved in essential zinc homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana


Professor David Day (ComBio2004 Chair) awarding Edwin Wong
All photography © Mark Stevens 2004

ASPS (Australian Society of Plant Scientists):
Mr Apratim Chakrabarti, RSBS, Australian National University, ACT
Identification of key regions in the tomato CF-9B gene involved in disease resistance and cell death response


Professor David Day (ComBio2004 Chair) awarding Apratim Chakrabarti
All photography © Mark Stevens 2004

ANZSCDB (Australia & New Zealand Society for Cell and Developmental Biology):
Ms Christin Down, Laboratory for Cancer Medicine, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research and Centre for Medical Research, the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Role of the Hu proteins, HuR and HuD, in the regulation of androgen receptor expression and activity in prostate cancer cells

Each award winner received a framed certificate, cash prize and other Biochemical Journal gifts.

The Biochemical Journal sponsored a Young Investigator Award for a poster presentation at the 4th International Conference on Protein Kinase CK2: From Structure to Function and Regulation, held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, 29 July – 1 August 2004.

The posters were judged by Walter Pyerin (Heidelberg), David Meek (Dundee), Brigitte Boldyreff (Odense) and Isabel Dominguez (Boston). They were extremely thorough in their analysis and selected Won Jun Choi, a graduate student in the Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago as the winner.

157 abstracts were submitted to the Biochemical Journal Young Investigator Award poster competition at the Second Messengers and Phosphoproteins Conference, Montreal, 3-7 August 2004. Of these, 10 finalists were selected and invited to present their key findings to the judges - Dr. Angela Clerk (Imperial College, London, U.K.), Dr. Bruce Allen (Montreal Heart Institute, Canada) and Professor Mike Walsh (University of Calgary, Canada).

The winner was Nicole Verrills of the Children's Cancer Institute for Medical Research, Randwick, NSW, Australia, for her poster entitled: "Mutant G-actin confers resistance to tubulin-targeted drugs: implications for regulatory cross-talk between microtubules and microfilaments".

The Biochemical Journal sponsored a Young Investigator Award for a poster presentation at the recent FASEB Summer Research Conference on Phospholipases held in Tucson, Arizona, 17-22 July. Michael Wakelam, a Deputy Chair of the Biochemical Journal, presented the award to Sangderk Lee, from the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Virginia, for his poster Cloning and Characterization of the Sphingomyleinase D of Loxoseles reclusa (brown recluse spider). He received a cheque for 500 US dollars and other Biochemical Journal gifts.

There were 76 posters in the 8th Annual Undergraduate Student Research Achievement Award Poster Prize Competition organized by the ASBMB. The posters were judged by a panel chaired by P.A. Ortiz, M.B. Parsons, M. Wallert and J. Provost.