TSL Prizes
Each autumn, during the visit of TSL's Scientific Advisory Board, we take the opportunity to celebrate the impressive contributions of our staff and students through the TSL Prizes. Everyone at TSL has the opportunity to nominate a colleague, whether working in research or support, who they felt should be recognised for their impact in Research or Engagement.
Award Categories
- Research
Recognizing significant achievements such as discoveries, preprints, publications, patents, and critical contributions to funding or outputs. - Engagement
Celebrating impactful activities beyond research, including presentations, posters, public engagement, teaching, business-critical tasks, and efforts that enhance TSL life through scientific or social initiatives.
TSL Prizes Autumn 2024
Student Research
AmirAli Toghani for his contribution to the study of molecular evolution and function of NRC and other NLR immune receptors by combining phylogenomics, biochemistry and theoretical structural biology, and then releasing a curated database.
Andrés Posbeyikian for developing a novel high-throughput genome-wide protein-protein interaction analysis, contributing to the Pikobody project, and numerous external collaborations.
Student Engagement
Andrés Posbeyikian for making his protein-protein interaction tools available and delivering training in English and Spanish for their use, co-establishing and co-organising the open-science Preprint Club and expanding it through GetGenome, and organising social events through the Student Committee.
Postdoc Research
Madhu Jogi & Selvaraj Muniyandi for establishing a pipeline for solving cryo-EM structures of proteins including NRC2 and for supporting the research of others within and beyond the NRP.
Neftaly Cruz-Mireles for establishing a robust and uniquely data-rich phosphoproteomics pipeline for studying pathogenicity.
Lauren Ryder for developing and deploying novel fungal mechanobiology molecular probes along with cryo-ET technologies to understand pathogenicity and host colonisation.
Postdoc Engagement
Daniel Lüdke & Mauricio Contreras for co-establishing and co-organising the open-science Preprint Club. Furthermore, for organising social activities through the Postdoc Committee, and for helping to introduce the Preprint Club and GetGenome to Latin America, respectively.
James Canham for visionary leadership in creating and spearheading the GetGenome project benefitting science in Tunisia, Mexico, Pakistan, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa.
Support Research
Sophie Sharpe for meticulously managing a high-throughput, high-volume screening platform for a transgenic collection of over 31,000 lines, and optimising wheat protoplast assays.
Marke Youles for sustained and significant contributions across TSL and beyond in the development and deployment of synbio cloning including GoldenGate thus saving time, money and many lines of scientific enquiry.
Support Engagement
Mia Cerfonteyn for transforming TSL’s approach to science communication, elevating TSL’s profile through social media, press-releases, and events including public affairs and outreach, together with coordinating consultations on precision breeding reform, and supporting other TSL activities such as GetGenome.
Steph Bornemann for establishing and sustaining the MSc in Global Plant Health, planning and leading the Summer Conference that enhanced TSL’s reputation, and for contributing to TSL’s science communication.
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