This year’s ASBMB 2011 Annual Meeting Thematic Best Poster Awards were announced on Wednesday, April 13, in Washington, D.C.
Thematic Best Poster Awards are given each year at the society’s annual meeting in an effort to encourage the research of our young scientists. Each award includes a cash prize. Theme organizers from each of the ten scientific themes judged more than 1,000 poster presentations. Congratulations to all of this year’s awardees.
Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery Theme
Goncalo Bernades, ETH Zürich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Elizabeth Boon, Stony Brook University
DNA Replication, Recombination, and Repair Theme
Kingsley Boateng, NIDDK, NIH
Adihe Lokanga, LMCB, NIDDK, NIH
Andrew J. Melber, Juniata College
Mark C. Weir, Juniata College
Tiffany Winsor, Duke University
Lipid Membrane Metabolism Theme
Yu-Fang Chang, Cornell University
Yeun Ju Kim, NICHD/NIH
Galen Miller, Oregon State University
Katherine Ward, University of Notre Dame
Metabolism and Disease Theme
Gautam Dhar, UCLA
Vishal Gohil, Massachusetts General Hospital
Kristin Nieman, University of Chicago
Cesar Osorio-Fuentealba, Universidad de Chile
Obesity Theme
Lutfi Abu-Elheiga , Baylor College of Medicine
David W. Nelson, University of Wisconsin
Dario C. Ramirez, Experimental Therapeutics Research Program –OMRF
Harini Sampath, Oregon Health & Science University
Protein Synthesis and Degradation Theme
Jialing Bao, Penn State University, College of Medicine
Shintaro Imamura, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Yokohama, Japan
RNA Theme
Ashley Bonneau, CSU Channel Islands
Tejal Naik, University of Delaware
Andrea Rivera, University of Puerto Rico
Signal Transduction from the Plasma Membrane to the Nucleus Theme
Martin Audet, Michel Bouvier Laboratory, IRIC, Université de Montréal
Jeon Goo Lee, Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles
Koji Onomoto, Kyoto University, Japan
Structure, Mechanism, and Regulation in Enzyme Catalysis Theme
Cherece Armwood, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Qian Cheng, Vanderbilt University
Elizabeth Erickson, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Yang Gao, Iowa State University
Transcription and Chromatin Theme
Anne Gegonne, EIB, NCI, NIH
April MacKellar, Duke University Medical Center
Olufunmilola Olufemi, Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine
Ilchung Shin, Iowa State University