Young Scientist Award / Poster Award

The 24^th Annual Meeting of the Protein Science Society of Japan at Nagoya will call for papers for the Young Scientist Award and the Poster Award.

The meeting will give 5-10 presentations the Young Scientist Award and 10 presentations the Poster Award from the five fields of “Structural biology”, “Computation/Information science”, “Protein/Cellular functions, Imaging”, “Biophysics, Protein Folding” and “Proteomics/Protein engineering”.

Furthermore, a few recipients from the Young Scientist Award will be given the Young Scientist Excellence Award. The recipients will be offered a gift and a monetary prize of the travel grant (with upper limit) for participation in the US Protein Society meeting.

Please apply for the awards via the online abstract submission system. Your enthusiastic applications are highly welcomed. The recipients of the Young Scientist Award will be requested to contribute a review, experimental protocol or essay to the PSSJ Archives.

Young Scientist Award

Application submission period

January 29 (Mon) – February 13 (Tue), 2024

Eligibility Requirements

– Regular members who are postdoctoral researchers or assistant professors
– Motivated Student members
– Under 40-year-old as of April 1, 2024
– Past recipients of the Young Scientist Award are not eligible.

Younger scientists are more likely to be prioritized. However, the committee will properly consider the length of maternity and childcare leave. If you meet such conditions, please send your CV mentioning them to the secretariat.

Regarding the annual membership fee, please complete the payment for FY2024 (from April of 2024). It’s unnecessary to pay the fee for FY 2023 (until March of 2024).

Application Procedure

After submitting your paper via Young Scientist Award application on the abstract submission page, send your application form to the secretariat （pssj2024@aeplan.co.jp）.

※The application form can be downloaded on the abstract submission page. Prepare your application form in English using figures and characters to appeal your research.

Selection process

< The screening of application documents >
5-10 recipients of the Young Scientist Award will be selected based on application documents in advance. The evaluation item is “Research topic” at this stage.

As the result of the screening, if your paper is not selected for the Young Scientist Award symposium, it will shift as below:

Regular member applicants

Their papers will shift to the poster presentations. (Not eligible for the Poster Award.)

Student member applicants

Their papers will shift to candidates of the Poster Award.

<Onsite selection>
Those who are selected Young Scientist Award based on the screening of application documents will be invited to make a presentation in English at the Young Scientist Award Symposium. A few recipients will be selected for Young Scientist Excellence Award based on the research topic and the clarity of the presentation. If your presentation is by co-authors’ research accomplishments, please clarify at the presentation what points you contribute to the research.
A brief discussion time is to be arranged after each presentation. Please deal with the discussion in English.

Poster Award

Application submission period

January 29 (Mon) – February 19 (Tue), 2024

Eligibility Requirement

-Presenters are required to be student members. (Regular members cannot apply for this award.)

Regarding the annual membership fee, please complete the payment for FY2024 (from April of 2024). It’s unnecessary to pay the fee for FY 2023 (until March of 2024).

Application Procedure

Please submit your paper via Poster Award application on the abstract submission page.
(There is no the screening of application documents.)

Selection process

Poster presentations and also poster award flash talks (one minute brief presentation with 1 page slide)
The evaluation items are the research topic and ingenuity of the presentation.

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