Report Dutch Biophysics 2019
- Published Date24 February 2020
Dutch Biophysics 2019, on October 7 and 8 in the Koningshof Veldhoven, was a great success. This conference is co-organized by NWO Domain Science (ENW), the Netherlands Society for Microscopy, the Dutch Society of Cell Biology and the Society for Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering (BIOPM).
BIOPM sponsored two key prizes: the poster prize and the annual thesis prize.
The Thesis Prize for the best PhD thesis in Biophysics or Biomedical Engineering 2019 was awarded to Tom Kamperman for his thesis “Microgel Technology to Advance Modular Tissue Engineering”. He defended his thesis successfully at the University of Twente on 26 January 2018.
Thesis award winner 2019: Tom Kamperman
[Photo: NWO-BioPhysics_2019, Bram Saeys]
The Poster Prizes 2019
The Poster Prize for the best poster at the conference was awarded to Klara Jansen (UU) “Anterograde and retrograde transport in dendrites use distinct microtubule tracks”. The second price was for Daphne Jurriens (UU), the third price for Christine Linne (Leiden).
Poster award winners 2019: Klara Jansen (UU), Daphne Jurriens(UU), Christine Linne (Leiden) [Photo: NWO-BioPhysics_2019, Bram Saeys]
The best posters were selected in a two-step process. First a shortlist was made from votes by attendees in the conference app, from this shortlist a jury (Tineke Lenstra, Jennifer Ross and Erwin Peterman) selected the top 3.
Congratulations to all the prize winners!