[wwPDB] Congratulations to Poster Prize Winners

At the inaugural PDB50 meeting, ~275 posters were presented (Abstracts Day 1 | Day 2); 209 of these presentations were considered for poster prize awards.

• Best in High School: Nicholas Mamisashvili, Shelter Island High School, Molecular Dynamics Simulation of 6PEY.pdb a Novel Mutation in the Enzyme Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase
• Best in Undergraduate: Ijeoma Okoye, Vassar College, X-ray and Antioxidant Determination of Butein and 2’,4’-dihydroxy-3,4-dimethoxychalcone to Examine their Antimalarial Activity by Binding to Falcipain-2
• Best in Graduate: Daniel Sultanov, New York University, Mining for functional ribosomal variants in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Best in Postdoctoral Scholars: Seda Kocaman, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Different ATP binding states of the essential AAA (ATPases Associated with various Activities)-ATPase Rix7 facilitate substrate translocation in ribosome biogenesis

Many thanks to the poster prize judges:

• BMRB: Hamid Eghbalnia
• PDBe: Genevieve Evans, John Berrisford
• PDBj: Genji Kurisu
• UConn: Bing Hao, Irina Bezsonova, Melissa Caimano
• University of Naples: Luigi Di Costanzo
• RCSB: Brian Hudson, Brinda Vallat, Cathy Lawson, Chenghua Shao,
• David Goodsell, Dennis Piehl, Ezra Peisach, Helen Berman, Irina Persikova, Joan Segura, Justin Flatt, Rachel Kramer Green, Stephen Burley, Yuhe Liang, Zukang Feng
• RIT: Paul Craig

wwPDB is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the PDB throughout 2021 with symposia, materials, and more.

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