Millipore makes award at the Fourth Annual Cell Signaling Symposium, held 30 August - 2 September 2007 at the Apex City Quay hotel in Dundee, UK
Millipore has announced that Michaela Gack from Harvard Medical School and the New England Primate Research Center in Southborough, Massachusetts, has been named the 2007 Young Cell Signaler of the Year.
She was chosen from among five finalists..
Gack's presentation was entitled 'Trim25 Ring-finger E3 ubiquitin ligase is essential for RIG-I-mediated antiviral activity'.
Entries were submitted as abstracts by PhD students and first time post-doctoral researchers from around the world competing to win US$20,000 in Millipore's Upstate reagents, a personal cash price of $10,000 and a trophy.
The four runners-up each received a $500 cash price and a trophy.
Finalists presented their work during the recent Cell Signaling Symposium held in Dundee, Scotland (UK) and were judged by symposium attendees and an experienced scientific panel including three of the world's most cited scientists, Philip Cohen, Dario Alessi and Tony Hunter.
Each entrant gave a 25-30 minute presentation, followed by a five-minute question and answer session.
The other four finalists and their presentations were: Oliver Hantschel of CeMM Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria presented 'c-Abl/Bcr-Abl: structure, regulation and inhibitors', Jessica Hutti of Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA presented 'IKKB phosphorylates the K63-deubiquitinase A20 to cause feedback inhibition of the NFkB pathway', Ryan Phan of Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA presented 'Genotoxic stress regulates the expression of the BCL6 proto-oncogene in germinal center B cells', and Joseph Burgoyne of the Rayne Institute, St Thomas Hospital London, UK presented 'Cysteine redox sensor in PKG1a enables oxidant-induced activation independently of NO'.
The symposium was co-sponsored by Millipore and the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee.
The focus for the three-day, not-for-profit meeting was, 'the Interplay between protein phosphorylation and ubiquitination in cell signaling'.
