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