Travel Award

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the winners of the Toxins Travel Award for 2017. We had planned to fund two awards, but the quality of the applications was stellar, and we couldn’t narrow down the winners to just two!

Travel Award was granted to: Dr. Marco Pirazzini, a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Cesare Montecucco’s lab, University of Padova, Italy; Dr. Natalie Saez, a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Glenn King’s lab, University of Queensland, Australia; and Ms. Rachel A. Miller, Ph.D. student in Dr. Martin Wiedmann’s lab, Cornell University, USA.

Dr. Marco Pirazzini studies the molecular mechanism of action of botulinal neurotoxins expressed by Clostridium botulinum.

Dr. Natalie Saez’s work focuses on the interactions of toxins expressed by arachnids and insects with acid-sensing channels and voltage-gated sodium channels.

Ms. Rachel A. Miller’s research focuses on the distribution, regulation, and contributions to pathogenicity, of toxins produced by Bacillus cereus and nontyphoidal Salmonella.

Editor-in-Chief,
Vernon L. Tesh, Ph.D.

 
Toxins 2017 Travel Award
 
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

Karoline Sanches
Monash University
Iman Mehdizadeh Gohari
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Award Committee

Prof. Jay William Fox Chairman
University of Virginia School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, Cancer Biology
Prof. Philippe Guerre
Veterinary School Toulouse
Dr. Triantafyllos Kaloudis
EYDAP SA
Dr. Angel Yanagihara
University of Hawaii
Prof. Dr. John Berry

Winner

Laura Biessy
Cawthron Institute
Cecilie Knudsen
Technical University of Denmark
Marcelo Mendes Rabelo
Univeristy of Florida

Winner

Steve Peigneur
Toxicology and Pharmacology, Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium

Winner

Elisabeth Varga
University of Vienna, Department of Food Chemistry and Toxicology
Miklós Poór
University of Pécs

Winner

KWOK HO LAM
University of California, Irvine
Anneleen Pletinck
Campus Ghent University Hospital

Winner

Marco Pirazzini
University of Padova
Natalie Saez
University of Queensland
Rachel A. Miller
Cornell University

Winner

Kartik Sunagar
Marie Curie Fellow in Dr. Yehu Moran’s lab at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Philipp Wiemann
Dr. Nancy Keller’s lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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