10
July
2025

Poster and Speed Talk prize winners

Poster and Speed Talk prizes awarded by the FEBS Press journals were announced during the closing session of the 49th FEBS Congress. Congratulations to all winners!

Poster prizes

FEBS Press prizes for outstanding posters were awarded from Sunday through Tuesday of the Congress by The FEBS Journal, FEBS Letters, Molecular Oncology and FEBS Open Bio. The journal editors had shortlisted posters on the basis of submitted abstracts, and then visited these posters at the event and talked to the presenters. They were looking for high-quality and exciting unpublished or recently published research presented in a clear and appealing manner. Daily winners went forward for consideration for overall poster prizes of €200 each, and the results were announced at the Congress closing sesssion. Congratulations to the overall winners: 

The FEBS Journal poster prize: 
Irem Sultan Dilbaz
Koc University Istanbul, Turkiye
CSPP1 has a key regulatory function in the differentiation processes of multiciliated epithelial cells

FEBS Letters poster prize:
Satoshi Takenaka 
Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
Zinc deficiency inactivates Lysin Acetyl Transferase 7 (KAT7) and promotes fatty liver

Molecular Oncology poster prize:
Patryk Lorenc 
Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poland
Double-functionalized silk nanospheres for delivery of oligotherapeutics to VEGFR-overexpressing tumor microenvironment cells

FEBS Open Bio poster prize:
Kinga Sarkowicz  
National Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland
Mechanisms of cell specific regulation of the proteotoxic stress response

Speed Talk prizes

Prizes for two outstanding Speed Talks were also awarded by FEBS Open Bio. Congratulations to the winners:

Veronika Kocarkova
Institute of Microbiology of CAS, Czech Republic
A study of putative transcription factors in Bacillus subtilis reveals a novel mechanism of resistance to the antibiotic D-cycloserine 

Carmen Sicilia Navarro
Center of Cancer Investigation of Salamanca, Spain
Platelet C3G modulates the immune response in a murine colitis model

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