ZHOU Yangyan(R)

ZHOU Yangyan, a graduate student at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences received the first place award during the poster presentation competition at the 10th conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association held from October 31 to November 3, 2010 at Busan, South Korea.

The conference was attended by 626 participants. ZHOU’s work titled “structural and functional study on human prostaglandin synthase and fatty acid complexes” stands out of 332 posters demonstrated during the conference and was the only one in biological science had won the award conferred by the International Union of Crystallography. Because of her research excellence, Zhou also received a travel award of the conference. Zhou is one of my best graduate students, said Professor LIU Zhi-Jie, a structural biologist and Zhou’s supervisor at the Institute of Biophysics, “she is not only intelligent but also works very hard. ” ZHOU is now in the second year of her Ph.D. study at IBP. This talented young lady is very optimist about her future career in the academic research.