All abstracts with graduate students or postdoctoral fellows as first authors that not received a YTF are subject to scientific evaluation by selected members. The best 3 abstracts will receive the "FEBS-MPST2017 Young Investigator Award" at the end of the course. Each award will be financed with 200€. To be eligible for this award, individuals should also apply with an abstract, a curriculum vitae (one page) and one letter of recommendation. The candidates should include with the application their full address, phone and fax numbers, their e-mail address and an I.D. photo.

The young investigator awards are sponsored by Pharmaceutical firms, lab suppliers, and Publishers.

Deadline for Young Investigator Awards application: February 15^th, 2017

 

YIA Awardees of FEBS-MPST 2017

 

1) P57: Unraveling silent pathologic al states by decoding their unique extracellular matrix signature in intestinal inflammation

Elee Shimshoni¹, Ran Afik¹, Anjana Shenoy ², Miri Adler ³, Luca Puricelli ⁴, Alessandro Podestà⁴, Tamar Geiger², Paolo Milani⁴, Uri Alon³ and Irit Sagi¹

¹Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

² Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine,

Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

³Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

⁴CIMAINA and Department of Physics, Universitΰ degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

 

2) P36: Lack of the extracellul ar matrix proteoglycan lumican in mice exacerbates left ventricular dilatation and contractile dysfunction upon pressure overload

Mohammadzadeh N.^1,2, Lunde IG.^1,2,3, Andenæs K.^1,2, Strand M.E.^1,2, Aronsen J.M.^1,4, Skrbic B.^1,2,5, Marstein H.S.^1,2, Bandlien C.^1,2,5, Nygård S.^1,2, Sjaastad I.^1,2, Chakravarti S. ⁶, Christensen G.^1,2, Engebretsen K.V.^1,2,5, Tønnessen T.^1,2,5

¹Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, Norway

² Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Norway

³Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

⁴Bjørknes College, Oslo, Norway

⁵Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oslo University Hospital Ullevεl, Norway

⁶Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

 

3) P61: Towards the generation of an animal model of chondrodysplasia with joint dislocations gPAPP type

R. Costantini¹, L. Monti¹, C. Paganini¹, Stephan Sonntag², A. Forlino¹, A. Rossi¹

¹Dept. Molecular Medicine, Unit of Biochemistry, University of Pavia, Italy

²PolyGene AG, Rümlang, Switzerland