Competition Archives - The Antibody Society

2023 Imaging Calendar Competition, Honorable Mention

August 7, 2023 by Silvia Crescioli

The Communication & Membership Committee selected one entrant for honorable mention:

Rodrigo Garcia Valiente (Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Image title: A(b) field of dandelions.

The image was not produced using microscopy and therefore didn’t meet the entry requirements. However, the Committee recognised both its scientific and artistic value and decided to give it honorable mention.

Image description: Visual representation of a B-cell clonal repertoire using the programming language R. Each non-singleton clone is indicated with a line and represented as a radial plot whose number of elements correlates with the number of subclones that compose it. Singleton clones are represented as single points.
600 dpi, 28×40 cm. Digital technique.
Antibodies used: The repertoire sequencing database subset from Laserson and Vigneault et al, 2014 contained in the ExampleDb function of the alakazam package, part of the Immcantation pipeline.
Instrument used: R 4.3.0 in an Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS system. Full sessionInfo(), description, references and script can be found in https://github.com/EDS-Bioinformatics-Laboratory/Clonal_aRt_visualization

Results of the Imaging Calendar Competition announced!

August 2, 2023 by Silvia Crescioli

The Society’s Communication and Membership Committee is glad to announce that:

Federica Riccio (King’s College London) is the winner of our inaugural Imaging Calendar Competition!

Congratulations!

Based on the results of our online poll, the winning image is “Surrounded” by Federica Riccio (King’s College London).

Title: Surrounded

Description: A human iPSC-derived cortical neuron (MAP2 – Cyan Hot) sits happily surrounded by astrocytes (GFAP – Red Hot)

Antibodies used: rat anti-GFAP (Invitrogen 13-0300) represented in Red Hot and rabbit anti-MAP2 (Antibodies-Online ABIN1742387) represented in Cyan Hot

Instrument used: confocal laser scanning microscope Leica TCS SP8 (Leica Microsystems)

The winner will receive:

broad exposure of their work,
a $400 cash prize,
and the option of a free registration to: 1) Schrödinger’s online course, Introduction to Computational Antibody Engineering; or 2) virtual or in-person Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics.

The winning image will be featured as the cover image for the 2024 volume of mAbs, and also as the cover image of the calendar. The calendar will be distributed at the 2023 Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics, in San Diego, in December.

We are also glad to reveal the scientists behind the other short-listed images. These images will be included as well in the calendar, one every month.

Virginia Metrangolo (University of Copenhagen), image title “Lightening up cancer cells with antibodies”

Jessica Anania (University of Southampton), image title “Cytoskeletal structures following FcR stimulation”

Gabriel Emilio Herrera-Oropeza (King’s College London), image title “Structure of an Unpatterned Cerebral Organoid”

Nathaniel Lam (GSK), image title “Vascularised tumour-on-chip model”

Josefa Chuh (Genentech), image title “Preclinical optimization of Ly6E-targeted ADCs for increased durability and efficacy of anti-tumor response”

Irene Rosa (University of Florence), image title “Double immunofluorescence staining of human tongue, with DAPI nuclear counterstain”

Peng Zhao (AstraZeneca), image title “Enhanced anti-angiogenetic effect of transferrin receptor-mediated delivery of VEGF-trap in a glioblastoma mouse model”

Sandra Lara (AstraZeneca), image title “Antibody dependent phagocytosis of 3D tumour spheroids opsonized with Rituximab anti-CD20”

Danielle Fails (Fortis Life Sciences), image title “Immune profiling of axillary lymph tissues”

Lorna Stewart (Fusion Antibodies), image title “Expression bottlenecks and antibody localisation in stably transfected CHO cells with a GFP marker”

Isabel Uwagboe (King’s College London), image title “”RAGE” against the machine”

We thank everyone who participated, and all our members and followers for taking the time to vote for the best image!

Watch for our next Imaging Calendar Competition in 2024!

2023 Research Competition winners!

July 27, 2023 by Silvia Crescioli

The Society’s Communication and Membership Committee is glad to announce the Research Competition winners!

Our student winner is:

Mr. Matheus Oliveira De Souza (Ragon institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, MIT, The University of Kansas)
Poster title: Enhanced antibody recognition against HIV resistant strains by directed evolution

Our post-doc winner is:

Dr. Nayara Braga Emidio (National Institutes of Health (NIH))
Poster title: Generation of neurokinin receptor ligands with specialized signalling properties via nanobody conjugation

The Antibody Society sponsors competitions each year to recognize and encourage the research activities of promising student/postdoctoral fellows. For the Research Competition, participants submitted a summary of their work on a topic related to antibody research. Winners (1 student and 1 post-doc) were selected based on originality, creativity, scientific merit, clarity of their research and its presentation.

Winners will receive:

broad exposure of their work,
a $400 cash prize,
and the option of a free registration to: 1) Schrödinger’s online course, Introduction to Computational Antibody Engineering; or 2) virtual Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics.

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who participated!

Watch out for our next Research Competition in 2024!

Information on past competitions and winners can be found here.

Imaging Competition voting is open!

July 5, 2023 by Silvia Crescioli

Congratulations to the 12 participants whose images have been short listed for the calendar!

This competition was designed to acknowledge and encourage the creativity of our members involved in imaging studies. We had a fantastic turn out and thank all entries for your efforts.

We have short-listed 12 images which will made into a calendar for distribution by The Antibody Society at the Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics meeting in December. Congratulations!

But we would like you, our members and followers, to decide the winner.

The winning image will be featured as the cover image for the 2024 volume of mAbs and the cover image of the calendar. Additionally the member who submitted the winning image will receive broad exposure of their work, a $400 cash prize, and the option of a free registration to:

1) Schrödinger’s online course, Introduction to Computational Antibody Engineering; or
2) virtual or in-person Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics.

Click here to vote – polls are open until the 31st of July

The winner will be announced on the 1st of August!

Please see the short listed images below.

: Danielle Fails (Fortis Life Sciences): Immune profiling of axillary lymph tissues

: Nathaniel Lam (GSK): Vascularised tumour-on-chip model

: Sandra Lara (AstraZeneca): Antibody dependent phagocytosis of 3D tumour spheroids opsonized with Rituximab anti-CD20

: Virginia Metrangolo (University of Copenhagen): Lightening up cancer cells with antibodies

: Gabriel Emilio Herrera-Oropeza (King’s College London): Structure of an Unpatterned Cerebral Organoid

: Isabel Uwagboe (King’s College London): “RAGE” against the machine

: Lorna Stewart (Fusion Antibodies): Expression bottlenecks and antibody localisation in stably transfected CHO cells with a GFP marker.

: Irene Rosa (University of Florence): Double immunofluorescence staining of human tongue, with DAPI nuclear counterstain

: Surrounded: A human iPSC-derived cortical neuron (MAP2 – Cyan Hot) sits happily surrounded by astrocytes (GFAP – Red Hot).

: Jessica Anania (University of Southampton): Cytoskeletal structures following FcR stimulation

: Josefa Chuh (Genentech): Preclinical optimization of Ly6E-targeted ADCs for increased durability and efficacy of anti-tumor response

: Peng Zhao (AstraZeneca): Enhanced anti-angiogenetic effect of transferrin receptor-mediated delivery of VEGF-trap in a glioblastoma mouse model

2023 Science Writing Competition winners announced!

May 26, 2023 by Silvia Crescioli

To make science accessible, we need clear and concise communication. The Antibody Society thus offers our student and post-doc members a chance to grow this skill through a Science Writing Competition. This competition is organized and managed by the Society’s Communications & Membership Committee. Entrants submitted essays of 1200 – 1500 words on a topic related to antibody research that were evaluated by our panel of judges.