Of Note

SoF Announces Spring Travel Award Winners

The Scripps California Society of Fellows (SoF) has announced the winners of this spring’s travel awards, which support the presentation of scholarly work at a scientific conference.

About this spring’s winners

Miriam O'Duill, DAAD Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Engle Lab, attended the 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition in San Francisco to present “Tuning the Regioselectivity of Alkene Functionalization via a Directing Group Approach.”

Alicia Gonzalez Martin, senior research associate in the Xiao Lab, attended the Keystone Symposia Immune Regulation in Autoimmunity and Cancer in Whistler, British Columbia, to present “MicroRNA control of B cell tolerance and autoimmunity.”

Mark Herzik, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Lander Lab, will attend the Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy Gordon Research Conference in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, to present “Obtaining 3 Å Resolution Structures of Biomedical Targets at 200 keV.”

Award applications will be accepted again in the fall. Postdoctoral researchers who have never attended a scientific meeting to present their current work are encouraged to apply; additionally, previously unsuccessful applicants are urged to re-apply. Visit the SoF website for details.

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SoF Announces Spring Travel Award Winners