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Results of the Imaging Calendar Competition announced!

September 9, 2024 by Silvia Crescioli

The Society’s Communication and Membership Committee is glad to announce that:
Eva Smorodina (University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Norway) is the winner of our Imaging Calendar Competition! 
Congratulations!

The Imaging Calendar Competition ran from April 1st to July 15th 2024 and was open to all members. Participants submitted a high-resolution image with a brief explanation of the research behind it and the scientific method. This year we accepted both wet-lab and in-silico originated images.

Based on the results of our online poll, the winning image is “Getting closer to binding with every step” by Eva Smorodina (University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Norway)

Image description: The image represents different levels of complexity surrounding antibody-antigen binding. We start from a more general understanding of the interaction kinetics with SPR, then identify the global binding site with cryo-EM, refine the region with HDX-MS to achieve peptide-level resolution, and move forward towards residue- and atom-wise resolution with computational techniques like docking and molecular dynamics. All these steps give us a better understanding of the structural rules behind antibody-antigen binding.

Antibodies used: Trastuzumab in complex with HER2

Instrument used: PyMOL, FoldX, IgFold

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; 2) virtual Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics; or 3) 1 year subscription to the Oxford Global Plus platform.

The winning image will be featured as the cover image for the 2025 volume of mAbs, and also as the cover image of the calendar. The calendar will be distributed at the 2024 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 Antibody Society 2025 calendar, one every month.

Stefania Vilbois (University of Lausanne, Switzerland): Intravital mouse melanoma.

Jessica Anania (University of Southampton, UK): Follicular Dendritic Cell Organization in Germinal Centers for Immune Memory.

Andrew O’Connor (University of Southampton, UK): Inflammation in the mouse cochlea.

Rodrigo García Valiente (Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands): Clonal fireworks.

Danielle Fails (Fortis Life Sciences, USA): Cells in Focus.

Shaoli Lin (National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA): Therapeutic antibody targeting GPC3 in liver cancer.

Suzanne Buss (University of Southampton, UK): Astrocytes – helping protect our brain.

Anthony Cheung (King’s College London, UK): Antibody-drug conjugates trigger microvesicle release ahead of endosomal internalization.

Alicia Chenoweth (King’s College London, UK): Heterogeneity of melanoma.

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Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Science Writing Competition!

May 30, 2024 by Silvia Crescioli

The Antibody Society offers our student and post-doc members a chance to grow their writing skills through a Science Writing Competition. This competition is organized and managed by the Society’s Communication & Membership Committee.

Entrants submitted essays of 1200 – 1500 words on a topic related to antibody research that were evaluated by our panel of judges based on: originality, structure of the essay, and presentation (clarity and creativity).

University student winner:
Igor García Atutxa (Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Murcia, Spain)

Essay title: “Dark Times in Microscopic Earth: The Immunological Epic Against the Dark Forces of Infection”

 
 

Secondary school student winner:
William Levy (Seabury Hall College Prep School, Maui, HI, USA)

Essay title: “Including Antibodies in Cancer Treatment”

 

 

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who participated! 

The next Science Writing Competition opens in March 2025.

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2024 Research Competition winners!

May 3, 2024 by Silvia Crescioli

The Society’s Communication and Membership Committee is glad to announce the 2024 Research Competition winners! 

 

Our student winner is:

Ms. Marlena Surówka (Roche Innovation Center Zurich, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

Poster title: P329G-Engager: A Novel Universal Antibody-based Adaptor Platform For Cancer Immunotherapy

 

Our post doc winner is:

Dr. Shivani Sachdev (National Institutes of Health (NIH))

Poster title: Leveraging antibodies and chemistry to interrogate cell surface receptor function

 

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 2025!

Information on past competitions and winners can be found here.

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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

 

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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!

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