23rd

European
Crystallographic
Meeting

  August 6 to 11, 2006 - Leuven | Belgium

Poster Prize Winners

Oxford Cryosystems Poster Prize

Oxford Cryosystems are pleased to sponsor the Oxford Cryosystems Low Temperature Prize.
This prize is awarded to the best poster describing applications of, or developments in, low temperature crystallography.

Poster Prize winner in this category:
Roelandt De Borger - Belgium - poster m43.p01 "The conformational landscape of stilbenes: a reassuring observation"

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IUCr Poster Prize

The Executive Committee is pleased to continue the series of IUCr awards to be presented at meetings of the Regional Associates. The prize is awarded to the best poster from a graduate or undergraduate student,
and consists of complimentary online access to all IUCr journals for one year or a complimentary volume of International Tables or other IUCr publication.

Poster Prize winners in this category:

Sonja Hammer - Germany - poster m13.p17 "Simulation of the absorption of acetone on ice at surfaces, bulk ice and small-angle grain boundary"

Andreas Lemmerer - South-Africa - poster m39.p06 "Temperature Dependant Phase Transitions of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskites"

Maarten Dewilde - Belgium - m06.p02 "Elucidation of the molecular interaction mechanism between PAI-1 and a PAI-1 inhibiting antibody fragment Fab-55F4C12"

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RCSB PDB Poster Prize

RCSB Protein Data Bank awards the RCSB PDB Poster Prize for the best graduate / undergraduate student poster presentation involving macromolecular crystallography.

Poster Prize winner in this category:
Gregor Hagelüken - Germany - m09.p08- "SdsA1 from P. aeruginosa, defines a new mechanistic class of sulfatases"

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CCDC Poster Prize

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) awards three
poster prizes each comprising a commemorative item and a monetary prize
of 350 Euros. Candidates should not be more than 35 years of age.
Posters should report original research in:

* Chemical crystallography, including advances in instrumental,
experimental or computational techniques

* Applications of small-molecule crystallographic information in, e.g.,
structural chemistry, molecular modelling, materials design, structural
biology or chemical informatics.

Poster Prize winners in this category:

Sara Wishkermann - Israel - m30.p15 - "Polymorphism in 4-methoxy-3-nitrobenzaldehyde"

Emiliana D'Oria - Spain - m13.p09 - "The nature of the C-H···F interaction found in molecular crystals evaluated by ab initio calculations"

Sam M. Hawxwell - United Kingdom - m41.p20 - "The Design and Synthesis of Metal-Carboxylate Coordination Polymers"