This is a guest post written by Associate Faculty Member Michael Verwey. Michael works with Faculty Member Shimon Amir in the Physiology Faculty. Earlier this year, Michael won one of the 2012 AFM travel grants – each winner receives $250 towards attending a scientific conference of their choice.
The Royal Society is the national academy of science for the UK and one of the oldest learned societies operating today. Each year the Royal Society elects new Fellows, Foreign Members, Honorary Fellows and Royal Fellows through a peer-review process from a pool of candidates suggested by the existing Fellowship. This year’s election results were…
Congratulations to Julian Davies, Head of Faculty in Microbiology and based at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, on receiving the 2013 American Society of Microbiology Lifetime Achievement Award! The award is bestowed upon those who make “sustained contributions to the microbiological sciences”, and it is not necessarily an annual honor. As part of…
At the end of April, the National Academy of Sciences announced 84 new members and 21 foreign associates to join the ranks of its current members, individuals who are recognized for their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”. We are delighted to congratulate the following F1000Prime members on their election to this prestigious group…
We’re delighted to be able to congratulate Ed Boyden, Faculty Member in Neuroscience, on recently being awarded the prestigious ‘Brain Prize’. The €1 million Brain Prize is awarded by the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation in Copenhagen in recognition of highly influential and original work on brain research. Ed and his co-recipients Ernst Bamberg,…
The Canada Gairdner International Award is an annual prize that recognises significant contributions by biomedical scientists to understanding, treating and curing human disease. Recipients are nominated and then selected by two panels of leading Canadian and international scientists, and many previous recipients have gone on to win the Nobel Prize. Congratulations to Stephen Elledge, Faculty…
This year marks 150 years since the founding of the National Academy of Sciences. On the 28th April, at their 150th annual meeting, the NAS will honour those who have made outstanding contributions to physical, biological, and social sciences. Our congratulations to David Karl, Section Head of Ecosystem Ecology at F1000, on being awarded the…
We would like to congratulate Joachim Messing, Faculty Member in Genomics & Genetics, on being awarded the 2013 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his contributions to the field of genetic engineering. His work at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, of which he is Director, Rutgers University, New Jersey, has earned him this accolade “for innovations…
Congratulations go to Goncalo Abecasis, F1000Prime Faculty Member in the Physiogenomics section of the Physiology Faculty, who has been awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) last Tuesday. The Overton Prize is awarded each year by the ISCB to a scientist “who is recognized for outstanding accomplishment and significant contribution…
Announcing the winners of the 2012 ‘Faculty Member of the Year’ awards, aka the Finches.
