Congratulations to Almudena Ponce-Salvatierra, a PhD student from the . Almudena won the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) poster prize at the (ECM-30) in Basel, Switzerland.
Almudena's poster "Crystal structure of a DNA catalyst" described the first determined structure of a deoxyribozyme, work which was published earlier this year in Nature.
Almudena is pictured here (2nd from the left) receiving the prize, a signed copy of Bernhard Rupp's Biomolecular Crystallography, from Matthew Conroy of PDBe (right) at the conference closing ceremony. Also pictured are Udo Heinemann, vice-president of ECA (left) and Bernhard Springler, head of the Poster Prize committee of ECM-30.
