IASPRR Medals

Young Scientist Presentation Awards:

The board decided to grant three awards at this congress to junior scientists. Two awards were given for the best presentation and one award for best poster. The awards were presented on behalf of the award committee by President Anna Koltunow.

H.F. Linskens Award for Best Presentation: (alphabetical)

• Taisuke Nishimura, Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 Japan. 2. Plant Science Center, RIKEN, Yokohama 230-0045 Japan, for his presentation: "SHORT VALVE involved in gynoecium development, encodes a ribosomal protein L24, which is a key factor of translation re-initiation." co-authors Takuji Wada and Kiyotaka Okada
• Feng Qin, Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China, for her presentation "The potency of atomic force microscopy in determining single-molecular interaction force between the transcription factor and DNA cis-element," co-authors Yaxin Jiang, Xiaohong Fang, Chunli Bai and Yiqin Li [Photo]

Best Poster:

• Kohji Murase, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma 630-0101, Japan, for his poster: "A membrane-anchored serine/threonine protein kinase, MLPK, involved in Brassica self-incompatibility signaling," co-authors Hiroshi Shiba, Megumi Iwano, Fang-Sik Che, Masao Watanabe, Akira Isogai, and Seiji Takayama [Photo]