Two out of the five awards in 2017 go to MFPL: Iva Lucic from the group of Thomas Leonard won with her thesis entitled “Role of membrane binding in the activation of Protein Kinase B (PKB) and Protein Kinase C (PKC)”. Dorotea Fracchiolla from Sascha Martens’ group won the award for her thesis “Mechanisms of cargo-directed autophagosome formation in selective autophagy”.
The other awards went to Muhammad Mamduh Bin Ahmad Zabidi from the Stark group (IMP) (thesis title: “Enhancer-responsiveness and -specificity of Core Promoters in Gene Transcription”) and Mareike Roth (thesis title: “Exploring and Exploiting Chromatin Dependencies in Cancer”) from the Zuber group (IMP), as well as to Radka Slovak (thesis title: “The roots of development: new growth regulators from high-throughput studies on natural variation”) from the Busch group at GMI.
The awardees were selected by Javier Martinez (MFPL, Medical University of Vienna), Christa Bücker (MFPL, University of Vienna), Yasin Dagdas (GMI), Andrea Pauli (IMP) and Ulrich Elling (IMBA). Each winner was awarded a cash prize of €500.
Congratulations to the winners on their extraordinary achievements!
Phage therapy for treating bacterial infections: a double-edged sword
Suckers and segments of the octopus arm
Using the house mouse radiation to study the rapid evolution of genes and genetic processes
CRISPR jumps ahead: mechanistic insights into CRISPR-associated transposons
SLiMs and SHelMs: Decoding how short linear and helical motifs direct PPP specificity to direct signaling
Title to be announced
Enigmatic evolutionary origin and multipotency of the neural crest cells - major drivers of vertebrate evolution
Visualising mitotic chromosomes and nuclear dynamics by correlative light and electron microscopy
Engineered nanocarriers for imaging of small proteins by CryoEM
Bacterial cell envelope homeostasis at the (post)transcriptional level
Title to be announced
Hydrologic extremes alter mechanisms and pathways of carbon export from mountainous floodplain soils
Dissecting post-transcriptional gene expression regulation in humans and viruses
Polyploidy and rediploidisation in stressful times
Prdm9 control of meiotic synapsis of homologs in intersubspecific hybrids
Title to be announced
RNA virus from museum specimens
Programmed DNA double-strand breaks during meiosis: Mechanism and evolution
Title to be announced