Michel Heidecker recently received the Master Award of the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The biochemist studied at the University of Hamburg and came to the IPB in Halle for his master thesis. Under the supervision of Dr. Selma Gago Zachert, he studied long non-coding antisense RNAs in Arabidopsis. With his experiments on expression changes of a specific group of regulatory RNAs, he was able to show that these apparently do not influence sequence-related metabolic enzymes, as suspected, but rather cell number and size of leaves. Heidecker will start his PhD in April as part of the Life Science Graduate Program at ETH Zurich. We congratulate him on the Master Award and wish him good luck for the future.
The Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, GBM) awards an annual prize for outstanding graduates (master's degree) in biochemistry or related fields in molecular biology and molecular medicine for each study program at a given university site. Suitable candidates may be nominated or self-nominate at any time. The GBM Master Prize is jointly sponsored by Spektrum Akademischer Verlag/Springer Verlag and the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
