wwPDB News - Poster Prizes Awarded at IUCr

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The wwPDB Foundation made awards to outstanding student posters at the 26th General Assembly and Congress of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) in Melbourne, Australia from August 22-29.

Akila Pilapitiya

The crystal structure of the toxin EspC from enteropathogenic Escherichia coli reveals approaches to combat diarrheal infections

Pilapitiye Herat Mudiyanselage Akila Udayani Pilapitiya
Akila Pilapitiya, Lilian Hor, Jason Paxman, Begoña Heras (La Trobe University)

Liliana Guerrero

Drugging the Undruggable: Unveiling the Conformational Landscape and Ligandability of Phosphatases through Structural Biology

Liliana Guerrero (1), Ali Ebrahim (1), Blake T. Riley (1), Minyoung Kim (1,2), Qingqiu Huang (3) , Aaron D. Finke (3) , Daniel A. Keedy (1,4)
1 Structural Biology Initiative, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
2 Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
3 Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), Cornell University
4 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, City College of New York

Many thanks to the IUCr organizers and poster prize judges for making these awards possible.

 

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wwPDB poster prize winners: Akila Pilapitiya (left) and Liliana Guerrero (right)

 

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