International Mammalian Genome Society

Award Winners for 2007 IMGC

21^st International Mammalian Genome Conference
Kyoto, Japan, 2007 October 28-November 1

The Secretariat and members of The International Mammalian Genome Society are proud of the students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty who present oral and poster presentations at the annual meeting. The outstanding contributions of these young scientists are recognized through several awards.

The first of these awards is the Verne Chapman Young Scientist Award, which is given to the most outstanding oral presentation from a postdoctoral fellow or student. This is a monetary award of $500 that reflects Dr. Chapman's dedication to mentoring junior scientists. Verne Chapman Young Scientist Award went to Angela Lee (Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland).

2007 Awards

Posters:

• Nature: Morag Lewis (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
• Science: Juzoh Omemori (MGRL Natl. Inst. Genet.)
• Nature Methods: Yanquan Luo (Genome Institute of Sigapore)
• Nature Genetics: Aki Takahashi (Mouse Genomics Resource Lab) and Hisashi Miura (Riken)
• Nature Biotechnology: James Connor (Tufts University School of Medicine)
• Nature Chemical Biology: Mitsuoki Kawano (Riken)
• Nature Reviews Genetics: Ruth McCole (Kings College Loudon)
  Rashmi Rajendra (GSF-National Research Center for Envir. and Health)
• Mammalian Genome: Kikue Tachibana-Konwalski (University of Oxford) and Jingye Xu (Nanjing University)
• Genome Biology: Tomoji Mashimo (Kyoto University)
• Genome Research: Jessica Severin (Riken)
  
• Genomics: Misato Nakanishi (Riken)