AWARDS

Scholarships

The following people were awarded a €1000 scholarship for registration and travel compensation:
• Khalil Mohamed, Commission for Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, Department of Medical Biotechnology, Khartoum, Sudan
• Rodrigo da Silva, Department of Veterinary Hygiene and Public Health, São Paulo State University, Santos, Brazil

Best poster awards

Young Scientist Prices for the best posters were awarded with a one-year free subscription to Trends in Parasitology.
The following four people were awarded:

• Keith Eidell
Dpt Biology, Boston College, Higgins Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA
A powerful new screen to isolate mutants with defects in distinct steps of
Egress.
by K Eidell, T Burke and MJ Gubbels
• Manuela Breinich 
Hygiene Institute, Heidelberg University School of Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany
The dynamin-related protein B, DrpB, is required for the biogenesis of secretory organelles in Toxoplasma gondii.
by MS Breinich, DJP Ferguson, BJ Foth, G van Dooren, M Lebrun, DV Quon, B Striepen, PJ Bradley, F Frishchknecht, VB Carruthers and M Meissner.
• Julia Hunn
University of Cologne, Germany
Regulatory interactions between IRG resistance GTPases mediate cell autonomous resistance to Toxoplasma gondii in mice but not in men.
by JP Hunn, S Konen-Waisman, N Papic, N Schroder and JC Howard
• Pikka Jokelainen
Department of Basic Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki.
Toxoplasma gondii in wild ruminants and sheep in Finland: north-south gradient in seroprevalance.
by P Jokelainen, A Nareaho, S Knaapi, A Oksanen and A Sukura.