The FEBS Journal Poster Prizes

To complement the many activities of FEBS to support young scientists, The FEBS Journal Poster Prize is awarded at key conferences throughout the year.

Congratulations to our Winners

IDIBELL PhD Day, Spain, November 2015

Helga Simon Molas, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Title of poster: TIGAR modulation in wild type and mutated TP53 cancer cell lines: the crosstalk with PFKFBs

Helga Simon Molas

Gliwice Scientific Meeting, Poland, November 2015

Izabella Slezak, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
Title of poster: Inhibition of the miR-155 target NIAM phenocopies the growth promoting effect of miR-155 in B-cell lymphoma

Izabella Slezak

FEBS/EMBO Course: Mitochondria in Life, Death and Disease, October 2015

Anke Harsman, Dept Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland
Title of oral presentation: The TIM translocase in T. brucei contains Rhomboid-like proteins that are essential for mitochondrial protein import

Anke Harsman

FEBS/EMBO Course: Mitochondria in Life, Death and Disease, October 2015

Suvagata Roy Chowdhury, Dept Microbiology, University of Wurzburg, Germany
Poster title: The inhibition of mitochondrial fragmentation during Chlamydia trachomatis infection

Suvagata Roy Chowdhury

European Cell Death Organization meeting, Geneva, October 2015

Izabela Koryga, Apoptosis Research Centre, The National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Poster title: Deficiency in mitochondrial apoptotic pathway reveals the toxic potential of autophagy through stressosome formation.

Izabela Koryga

European Cell Death Organization meeting, Geneva, October 2015

Shuya Kasai, Dept. Biomolecular Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan
Poster title: PINK1/Parkin-mediated degradation of Inhibitory PAS domain protein (IPAS) attenuates neuronal cell death

Shuya Kasai

2015 NextGen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics & Technologies Conference, Hyderabad, October 2015

Aksheev Bhambri, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India
Poster title: The genome, transcriptome and metagenome of the earthworm, Eisenia fetida

Aksheev Bhambri

2015 NextGen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics & Technologies Conference, Hyderabad, October 2015

Preemada Kushwah, Dept. Animal Biotechnology, Anand Agricultural University, India
Poster title: Identification and quantification of novel RNA isoforms in horn cancer of Bos indicus by comprehensive RNA-Seq

Preemada Kushwah

2015 NextGen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics & Technologies Conference, Hyderabad, October 2015

Priyadarshini P. Pai, Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, India
Poster title: Identification of catalytic residues in enzymes using support vector machines

Priyadarshini P. Pai
2015 NextGen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics & Technologies Conference, Hyderabad, October 2015

Aravind Kumar Bandari, Institute of Bioinformatics, Bangalore, India
Poster Title: Identification of novel mutation in IL2RG gene with X- linked SCID using Next Generation Sequencing technologies
Aravind Kumar
EMBO Conference: Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like modifiers, Cavtat, Croatia, September 2015

Wenshan Xu, Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken (CCCM), University Hospital of Würzburg, Germany
Poster Title: Ubiquitination of substrate adapter controls activity of the SCF(beta-Trcp) ubiquitin ligase
Wenshan Xu
EMBO Conference: Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like modifiers, Cavtat, Croatia, September 2015

Matthew Tang, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada
Poster Title: Deciphering the mechanisms of action of parkin using
Matthew Tang
Nordic Molecular Medicine Network Meeting, Aarhus, Denmark, September 2015

Chaitanya Kurhade,
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, Sweden
Poster Title: Protective role of IPS-1 in tick borne flavivirus infection of the brain with specific importance for interferon induction in olfactory bulb and cerebrum
Chaitanya Kurhade
Nordic Molecular Medicine Network Meeting, Aarhus, Denmark, September 2015

Shixiong Wang, Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), University of Oslo, Norway
Poster Title: Identification and characterization of tumor-specific cell signaling pathways regulating FOXA1 binding
Shixiong Wang
The 29th European Crystallographic Meeting, Rovinj, Croatia, August 2015

Alkistis Mitropoulou, Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, UK
Poster Title: The crystal structure of a common allergen in complex with its specific patient-derived antibody
Alkistis Mitropoulou
ISMAR 2015, Shanghai, August 2015

Saurabh Saxena, Biological and Chemical Research Center, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Poland
Poster Title: 4D NMR for sequential assignment of 13C labeled RNAs
Saurabh_Saxena
15th International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes in Tübingen, Germany, August 2015

Jennifer Heidrich, Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
Poster Title: IM30 triggers membrane fusion in cyanobacteria and chloroplasts
Jennifer Heidrich
FASEB Science Research Conference: NAD Metabolism and Signaling, Timmendorfer Strand, Germany, August 2015

Johannes Rack, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK
Poster Title: ADP-ribosylating sirtuins in the microbial redox defence
Johannes Rack
FASEB Science Research Conference: NAD Metabolism and Signaling, Timmendorfer Strand, Germany, August 2015

Morten Dall, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Poster Title: Liver-Specific Knockout of Nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase impairs the basal and maximal respiratory capacity in primary mouse hepatocytes
Morten Dall
EBSA 2015: 10th European Biophysics Congress, Dresden, Germany, July 2015

Evelina Nikelshparg, Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Poster Title: Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Cytochrome C in Intact Mitochondria
Evelina Nikelshparg
EBSA 2015: 10th European Biophysics Congress, Dresden, Germany, July 2015

Michael Baker, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK
Poster Title: Understanding the Role of Adaptor Proteins in Clathrin Cage Assembly and Disassembly
Michael Baker
Cell Senescence: From Physiology to Pathology, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 2015

Irene Galiana, Centro de Reconocimiento Molecular y Desarrollo Technologico (IDM), Universitat de Valencia, Spain
Poster Title: Gated silica nanoparticles for targeting and controlled release in a senescence cellular model
Irene Galiana
EMBO Conference: Europhosphatase 2015, Turku, Finland, June 2015

Pushpa Neppala,Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland
Poster Title: PP2A inhibitor CIP2A in neural crest development and neuroblastoma
Pushpa Neppala

EMBO Conference: Europhosphatase 2015, Turku, Finland, June 2015

Elena Arriazu Ruiz,
Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA), University of Navarra, Spain
Poster Title: p38 beta MAPK inhibits PP2A activity in AML by preventing SET protein degradation

Elena Arriazu Ruiz
40th FEBS Congress, Berlin, July 2015

Kerstin Kanonenberg,
Institute of Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany
Poster title: Functional reconstitution of a type I secretion system into nanodiscs
Kerstin Kanonenberg
Gordon Research Conference: Myogenesis, Lucca, Italy, June 2015

Noral Yucel
, Dept of Geneticsm Stanford University, CA, USA
Poster Title: Metabolic Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Stem Cell Fate
Nora Yucel
Gordon Research Conference: Tissue Repair and Regeneration, New Hampshire, USA, June 2015

Andrew Soroka
, Department of Pathology, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
Poster Title: Specific loss of SMAD4 in Pax7 satellite cells promotes derived progenitor myogenic commitment during skeletal muscle regeneration
Andrew Soroka
Gordon Research Conference: Tissue Repair and Regeneration, New Hampshire, USA, June 2015

Brian Lin
, Department of Developmental, Molecular, Chemical Biology, Tufts University, Sackler School, USA
Poster Title: Neuronally committed Neurog1 and Ascl1 progenitors can become multi-potent following injury
Brian Lin
Mechanisms, Functions and Evolution of Wnt Signaling Pathways, Heidelberg, Germany, May 2015

Ewa Maj
, Department of Biology, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
Poster Title: Controlled levels of canonical Wnt signaling are required for neural crest migration
Ewa Maj
Cell Signalling and its Therapeutic Implications (CSTI), Victoria, Australia, May 2015

Matthew Dun, The University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Australia
Poster Title: A novel biomarker and drug target for the treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia

MatthewDunnnew
Cell Signalling and its Therapeutic Implications (CSTI), Victoria, Australia, May 2015

Caroline Le, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University
Poster Title: Chronic stress remodels lymph vasculature to promote metastasis

Caroline Le

The Multi-Pole Approach to Structural Science, Warsaw, May 2015

Maria W. Gorna, CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine in Vienna, Austria (currently Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Poland)
Poster Title: Viral RNA binding by the human IFIT1-IFIT3 protein complex in the innate immune system

M Gorna

Cell Death Signaling from Zero to Sixty Meeting, New York, February 2015

Madhavika Serasinghe, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
Poster Title: Mitochondrial division is requisite to RAS-induced transformation and targeted by oncogenic MAPK pathway inhibitors

M Serasinghe

The XVIII Congress of the Portuguese Biochemical Society, Coimbra, Portugal, December 2014

Pedro Guedes-Dias, Dept of Drug Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal, and Dept of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London
Poster Title: HDAC6 inhibition allows neuronal autophagic turnover and mutant huntingtin clearance

Guedes-Dias

The XVIII Congress of the Portuguese Biochemical Society, Coimbra, Portugal, December 2014

Paulo Caldas, Centro de Química-Física Molecular, Instituo Superior Técnico Lisbon, Portugal
Poster Title: Fluorescence detection of calcitonin oligomeric intermediates triggered by interaction with anionic lipid vesicles

PauloCaldas
2014 NextGen Genomics & Bioinformatics Technologies Conference, Bangalore, November 2014

ShampaDebChanda, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases Kolkata, India
Poster Title:
Rotavirus Blocks Viral Small RNA Mediated RNA Interference by Degradation of Argonaute Protein

ShapaDebChanda

2014 NextGen Genomics & Bioinformatics Technologies Conference, Bangalore, November 2014

Vilas Patel, Department of Animal Biotechnology, Anand Agricultural University Gujarat, India
Poster Title:
Characterization of the rumen microbiome of Indian Kankrej cattle (Bos indicus) adapted to a different forage diet

Vilas Patel

The Gordon Conference on Cell Death, Mount Snow, Vermont, USA, September 2014

Kipyegon Kitur, Department of Pharmacology, Columbia University Medical Center, USA.
Poster Title: Blockade of macrophage necroptosis improves outcome in Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia

Kipyegon Kitur

The Gordon Conference on Cell Death, Mount Snow, Vermont, USA, September 2014

Justine E Roderick, Department of Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA.
Poster Title: Hematopoietic RIPK1 deficiency results in bone marrow failure due to apoptosis and RIPK3-mediated necroptosis

Justine Roderick

The 5th Murnau Conference on Structural Biology, Germany, September 2014

Dr Ronje Danke, Freie, Universität, Berlin
Poster Title: Crystal structure of the first bacterial diterpene cyclase and structure-based engineering of plasticity residues

Ronja Janke

The IUBMB 18th International Symposium on Flavins and Flavoproteins, Thailand, July 2014

Dr Nicole Leferink, University of Manchester, UK
Poster Title: Nitric oxide synthase catalysis is associated with a 'rugged' energy landscape

Nicole Leferink

The IUBMB 18th International Symposium on Flavins and Flavoproteins, Thailand, July 2014

Dr Takuya Miyakawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Poster Title: Structure based mechanism of a novel enone reductase CLA-ER

Takuya Miyakawa