Awardees 2024:
Akaash Kumar
PhD Prize
Shedding light on the molecular interactomes of fast, complex biological processes using multispectral imaging with uncompromised spatiotemporal resolution.
Keywords: Multispectral, Microscopy, Live-cell imaging, Cell biology, Spectral unmixing.
Maria Julia Maristany
PhD Prize
Biomolecular Condensates Through a Computational Microscope
Keywords: Phase separation, Biophysics, Molecular Dynamics.
Leonardo Mancini
Postdoc Prize
Surface versus volume synthesis governs growth-dependent efficacy of a β-lactam antibiotic
Keywords: AMR, Cell wall, Microscopy, Mathematical modelling, Microfluidics.
Lucie Riglet
Postdoc Prize
Understanding how flowering plants build communication devices on their petals
Keywords: Petal patterns, Morphogenesis, Pollinators, Genetics, Computational modelling.
Previous Awarded:
2023
Filip Bošković
PhD Prize
Single-molecule, single-cell native transcriptomics with nanopores and RNA origami codes
Keywords: RNA origami, designed RNA codes, nanopore microscopy, native target transcriptomics.
Susie McLaren
Postdoc Prize
How does a simple tube give rise to the complex geometry of the central nervous system?
Keywords: central nervous system, neural tube, fluid pressure, lumen pressure, tissue material properties.
Roger Rubio Sánchez
Postdoc Prize
Using DNA nanostructures for lipid membrane biophysics and bioengineering in synthetic cell science
Keywords: artificial cells, synthetic membranes, DNA nanotechnology, nano-scaled DNA structures, cell surface
2021
Gea van de Kerkhof
PhD Prize
Structurally coloured bacterial colonies
Keywords: structural colour, bacteria, biophotonics, biophysics, biochemistry
Eva Kreysing
Postdoc Prize
Effects of substrate stiffness on membrane tension
Keywords: membrane tension, substrate stiffness, optical tweezers, fibroblasts, neurons
Wolfram Pönisch
Postdoc Prize
How cell shapes change during cellular fate transitions
Keywords: theoretical biophysics, modelling, cell fate transitions, morphometrics, stochastic processes
2020
Maximilian Jakobs
PhD Prize
Microtubule orientation during neuronal development
Keywords:neuroscience, microtubules, modelling, machine learning, image analysis
Anna Lippert
PhD Prize
Molecular mechanisms of lymphocyte activation - please mind the gap
Keywords: biophysics, mechanobiology, immunology, single molecule imaging
Alexander Ohmann
PhD Prize
Outperforming nature with a lipid-flipping enzyme built from DNA
Keywords: DNA nanotechnology, membrane transport, DNA origami, confocal microscopy, lipid scrambling