{"id":30017,"date":"2024-09-11T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T19:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biology.mit.edu\/?p=30017"},"modified":"2024-09-11T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T19:04:42","slug":"2024-angelika-amon-young-scientist-award-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biology.mit.edu\/2024-angelika-amon-young-scientist-award-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Angelika Amon Young Scientist award winners announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Koch Institute at MIT is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Angelika Amon Young Scientist Award, Anna Uzonyi and Lukas Teoman Henneberg.<\/p>\n<p>The prize was established in 2021 to recognize graduate students in the life sciences or biomedical research from institutions outside the United States who embody Dr. Amon\u2019s infectious enthusiasm for discovery science.<\/p>\n<p>Both of this year\u2019s winners work to unravel the fundamental biology of chromatin, the densely structured complex of DNA, RNA, and proteins that makes up a cell\u2019s genetic material.<\/p>\n<p>Uzonyi is pursuing her PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel under the supervision of Schraga Schwartz and Yonatan Stelzer. In her thesis, Uzonyi focuses on deciphering the principles of RNA editing code via large-scale systematic probing.<\/p>\n<p>Henneberg is a doctoral candidate<b>\u00a0<\/b>in the Department of Molecular Machines and Signaling, at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Germany, works under the supervision of Professor Brenda Schulman and Professor Matthias Mann. For his research project, he probes active ubiquitin E3 ligase networks within cells. He works on the development of probes targeting active ubiquitin E3 ligases within cells and utilizing them in mass spectrometry-based workflows to explore the response of these ligase networks to cellular signaling pathways and therapeutics.<\/p>\n<p>This fall, Anna Uzonyi and Lukas Teoman Henneberg, will visit the Koch Institute. The MIT community and Amon Lab alumni are invited to attend their scientific presentations on Thursday, November 14 at 2:00 p.m. in the Luria Auditorium, followed by a 3:30 p.m. reception in the KI Galleries.<\/p>\n<p>Uzonyi will present on &#8220;Inosine and m6A: Deciphering the deposition and function of adenosine modifications\u201d and Henneberg will present on &#8220;Capturing active cellular destroyers: Probing dynamic ubiquitin E3 ligase networks<b>.<\/b>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Koch Institute at MIT is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Angelika Amon Young Scientist Award, Anna Uzonyi and Lukas Teoman Henneberg. 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