Young Scientist Award / Poster Award
The 25rd 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 15 – 20 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 30 (Thu) – February 17 (Mon), 2025
Eligibility Requirement
– Regular members who are postdoctoral researchers or assistant professors
– Motivated Student members
– Under 40-year-old as of April 1, 2025
– 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 FY2025 (from April of 2025). It’s unnecessary to pay the fee for FY 2024 (until March of 2025).
Application Procedure
After submitting your paper via Young Scientist Award application on the abstract submission page, send your application form to the secretariat （pssj2025@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 30 (Thu) – February 25 (Tue), 2025
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 FY2025 (from April of 2025). It’s unnecessary to pay the fee for FY 2024 (until March of 2025).
Application Procedure
Please submit your paper via Poster Award application on the abstract submission page.
Selection process
The selection process will be changed starting with PSSJ2025 in Himeji. There will be two stages: preliminary document screening and on-site poster presentation.
Please carefully review the following process.
<First stage： Preliminary Document Screening>
Screening methods：
Selection will be based on the preliminary application documents.
Please create your research summary for the first stage screening following the instructions below and register it with your paper.
Language and word count: 400 words in English.
Research summary: Including “Scientific positioning of the research, notable points” and “Contributions made by the applicant“.
Note: Be sure that all documents must be created by the applicants.
Evaluation Criteria： “Research topic” at this stage.
Results of the first stage screening: Results will be shared with reviewers only and will not be shared with the applicants.
Regardless of the result of the first stage screening, we will not notify the results to the applicants to encourage lively and positive poster presentations.
<Second stage： On-site Poster presentation>
Screening methods: On-site Poster presentations will be evaluated.
(Only applicants who pass the first stage of screening will be reviewed.)
Evaluation Criteria： “Research topic” and “Clarity of the presentation”
The results: A few recipients will be selected for the Excellence Award. An award ceremony will be held at the venue.
Changes in Flash Talk
Applicants for the Poster Awards will be required to deliver Flash Talk.
However, the Flash Talk will not be considered in the evaluation for the poster award starting from PSSJ2025 in Himeji.
Presentation: One-minute brief presentation with 1 page slide
Venue: Oral presentation room
Submission of Flash Talk Files: When notifying you of the presentation date, we will also provideinstructions on how to submit the file.
After creating your file, please ensure to submit it according to theprovided instructions.
PSSJ2025 Secretariat A&E Planning CO., LTD
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