FEBS Letters Young Scientist Award

The FEBS Letters Young Scientist Award is given to the author of the most outstanding research letter published in the previous calendar year. The prize winner must be the corresponding author of the manuscript and be aged 40 years or younger at the time of manuscript acceptance.

2009 FEBS Letters Young Scientist Award Winner:
Dr. Frank Sargent, University of Dundee, UK

The winning manuscript is:

Grant Buchanan, Julien Maillard, Sander B. Nabuurs, David J. Richardson, Tracy Palmer, Frank Sargent (2008) Features of a twin-arginine signal peptide required for recognition by a Tat proofreading chaperone. FEBS Letters 582: 3979-3984.

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 7th Annual FEBS Letters Award for young scientists. Dr. Frank Sargent from the University of Dundee, College of Life Sciences, UK, was chosen for his outstanding work on the twin-arginine transport system and the FEBS Letters manuscript entitled: Features of a twin-arginine signal peptide required for recognition by a Tat proofreading chaperone. The committee unanimously praised the incisive combination of biochemical, genetic, and structural modelling approaches to gain important new insights into the molecular mechanism of this crucial trans-membrane protein translocation system. This FEBS Letters publication presents a significant contribution to his previous achievements on the thorough structure-functional analysis of this multi-protein complex. This rapidly expanding field is at the interface of biochemistry with microbiology, cell biology, and biophysics and opens opportunities for environmental, biomedical and biotechnological interventions.

The prize-winning paper takes advantage of the innovative Structured Digital Abstract (SDA) opportunity offered by FEBS Letters to the scientific community. SDAs enable the transfer of scientific content into a machine-readable database-compatible format.

The Award Committee were: Giulio Superti-Furga (Vienna) Chair, Hans Eklund (Uppsala), Ulrike Kutay (Zurich), Maurice Montal (San Diego) and Angel Nebreda (Madrid). We would like to thank them for their work in selecting the prize winner. If you would like to be considered for the FEBS Letters Award, submit your research letter to us before your 41st birthday!

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