Annual third year PhD poster session winners announced

There were excellent entries from 41 students across the School. Each poster was judged by three of the 14 judges, who included PIs and senior postdoctoral researchers – very many thanks to all who took part! This year was incredibly competitive with many excellent posters and the winners are:

1st Prize went jointly to Patricia McAllister (with Sarah McKim in Plant Sciences) poster entitled, “BODYGUARD plays a crucial role at the barley epidermis” and to Matthias Toman (with Tom Owen-Hughes in GRE) poster entitled “Structural and biochemical characterisation of human SWI/SNF-related chromatin remodelling complexes” 

2nd Prize went jointly to Lee Armstrong (with Dr Yogesh Kulathu in MRCPPU) poster entitled “Investigation and Inhibition of Activity of the Papain-like Protease from SARS-CoV-2” and to Margarita Kalamara (with Nicola Stanley-Wall in MMB & collaborator Kate McPhee, University of Edinburgh) poster entitled “Biofilm hydrophobicity in environmental isolates of Bacillus subtilis” 

3rd Prize went jointly to Kerryn Bernsden (with Dario Alessi/Miratul Muqit, MRCPPU/ Tilo Kunath, University of Edinburgh) poster entitled “Investigating the role of PPM1H phosphatase in the LRRK2 pathway”, and to Julia Wcislo (with Kevin Read/Mike Ferguson in BCDD), poster entitled “Chagas’ disease: A new approach for identifying the localization of the remaining Trypanosoma cruzi in organs of chronically infected mice directly after drug treatment”. 

The winners will each receive prizes (1st £125, 2nd £75, 3rd £50) from this year’s event sponsors IKA.