Plenary Awards Session

Friday, July 24
01:30 - 06:00 pm

Chair: James Bowie, Protein Society President, University of California. Los Angeles, CA, United States.

1:30 Introduction from Chair
1:35 Presenting The Hans Neurath Outstanding Promise Awards*
1:50 Claudio Ciferri, Genentech - Presenting The Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award** to Eva Nogales
1:55 Eva Nogales, University of California Berkeley/HHMI. Berkeley, CA, United States.
Visualizing molecular complexity by cryo-EM to understand biological function.
2:25 Presentation of the Protein Science Young Investigator Award to Nieng Yan
2:30 Nieng Yan, Tsinghua University/HHMI. Beijing, China.
Structural and mechanistic investigation of glucose transporters.
3:00 Presenting The Emil T. Kaiser Award to Anna Mapp
3:05 Anna Mapp, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
Dissecting Transcriptional Protein Networks.
3:35 30-min Coffee Break
4:05 Presenting the Christian B. Anfinsen Award to Sachdev Sidhu
4:10 Sachdev Sidhu, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON, Canada.
Synthetic Proteins in the Real World.
4:40 Presenting The Carl Brändén Award*** to C. Robert Matthews
4:45 C. Robert Matthews, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Worcester, MA, USA.
Superoxide Dismutase: From Folding and Stability to Potential Therapeutics for ALS.
5:15 Acknowledgement of the 2015 Neurath Award and Stein & Moore Award recipients
5:20 Presentation of the Protein Science Best Paper Awards
5:30 Presentation of the Protein Society Service Awards
5:45 Presentation of the Best Poster Competition Prizes

*Sponsored by the Hans Neurath Foundation
**Sponsored by Genentech
***Sponsored by Rigaku