Poster Prize Awarded at ISMB

08/14

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Congratulations to Alan Barber for Evolution of function in the alkaline phosphatase superfamily.

The RCSB PDB Poster Prize at the 2012 Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB, July 15-17, Long Beach, CA) went to Alan Barber for

Evolution of function in the alkaline phosphatase superfamily
Alan Barber,¹ Jonathan Lassila,² Helen Wiersma-Koch,² Michael Hicks,¹ Daniel Herschlag,² Patricia Babbitt^1
1University of California, San Francisco, ²Stanford University

Alan will receive a subscription to Science and a copy of Structural Bioinformatics: An Algorithmic Approach by Forbes J. Burkowski

Many thanks to the Steven Leard, the International Society for Computational Biology, and the judges: Yana Bromberg (Chair, Rutgers), Hannah Carter (Johns Hopkins), Jeroen deRidder (Delft University of Technology), Iddo Friedberg (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio), Tatyana Goldberg (Technical University Munich, Germany), Ben Jelen (Rutgers), Hande Kucuk (University of Miami), Biao Li (Buck Institute, Novato), Magali Michaut (Netherlands Cancer Institute), Yanay Ofran (Bar Ilan University), Susanna Repo (EMBL-EBI), Venkata Satagopam (EMBL-Heidelberg), Andrea Schafferhans (Technical University Munich), Avner Schlessinger (UCSF), Stefan Senn (Rutgers), Janita Thusberg (Buck Institute, Novato), Tobias Wittkop (Buck Institute, Novato), Chengsheng Zhu (Rutgers).

All 2012 awardees will be listed on the RCSB PDB website.

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