Past Symposia and Outreach

2024: Poster Prizes

• LACA: The wwPDB Foundation awarded Zaighum Abbas at the Latin American Crystallographic Association Meeting for The Role of SEPT7 in Magnaporthe oryzae: Structural Insights and Functional Implications.
• DiscoverBMB: The wwPDB Foundation awarded Angela Kayll (James Madison University) for her poster Solution Structure of the hMDH2-hCS Metabolon.
• Biophysical Society: The wwPDB Foundation awarded Irin Pottanani Tom (University of Illinois at Chicago) for her poster Mechanisms of Light Signalling and Allosteric Regulation in Dual Sensor Photoreceptor PPHK.

2023: IUCr and Poster Prizes

• The Biophysical Society Japan (November 14-16, Nagoya, Japan): wwPDB Foundation made awards for outstanding student presentations to Keisuke Kasahara (Univ. Tokyo), Kyle Ian Peter Le Huray (University of Leeds), and Katsuhiko Minami (Sōkendai)
• wwPDB Events at 26th General Assembly and Congress of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) in Melbourne, Australia (August 22-29)
• Poster prize: wwPDB Foundation made awards Akila Pilapitiya (La Trobe University) and Liliana Guerrero (The City University of New York)
• Protein Society (July 13-16, Boston, MA): wwPDB Foundation made awards to Taylor M. Laflamme (Clark University) and Kevin Ramirez (University of California Merced)
• #DiscoverBMB (March 5-28, Seattle, WA): wwPDB Foundation made an award to Michael Quinteros (Wesleyan University)

2021: PDB50 Celebrations

In 1971, the structural biology community established the single worldwide archive for macromolecular structure data–the Protein Data Bank (PDB). From its inception, the PDB has embraced a culture of open access, leading to its widespread use by the research community. PDB data are used by hundreds of data resources and millions of users exploring fundamental biology, energy, and biomedicine.

In 2021, wwPDB celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the PDB with symposia, materials, and more.

PDB50 Poster Prizes

At the inaugural PDB50 meeting, the following awards were made.

• Best in High School: Nicholas Mamisashvili, Shelter Island High School, Molecular Dynamics Simulation of 6PEY.pdb a Novel Mutation in the Enzyme Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase
• Best in Undergraduate: Ijeoma Okoye, Vassar College, X-ray and Antioxidant Determination of Butein and 2’,4’-dihydroxy-3,4-dimethoxychalcone to Examine their Antimalarial Activity by Binding to Falcipain-2
• Best in Graduate: Daniel Sultanov, New York University, Mining for functional ribosomal variants in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Best in Postdoctoral Scholars: Seda Kocaman, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Different ATP binding states of the essential AAA (ATPases Associated with various Activities)-ATPase Rix7 facilitate substrate translocation in ribosome biogenesis

At the PDB 50th Anniversary Symposium in Asia, the following awards were made:

• Gyunghee Jo,Institute for Basic Science, Republic of Korea, Structural Insights into the Clustering and Activation of Tie2 Receptor Mediated by Tie2 Agonistic Antibody
• Hongyang Yu, High Energy Accelerator Organization (KEK) and The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Japan, Crystal structure of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase from Sphingobium sp. SYK-6
• Angshu Dutta, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Exploring the structural aspects of a novel phospholipid-binding protein
• Hiroaki Matsuura, IKEN/SPring-8 Center, Japan,A new trend of protein crystallography: Polymorph analysis using hierarchical clustering of diffraction data

2016: OneDep Poster

2016: Human Frontier Science Program

Life sciences data resources and the future

Protein Data Bank (PDB) Archive and the wwPDB Partnership

2016: SciDataCon

September 11-13, 2016 in Denver, Colorado. Read more.

2015: Integrative Structural Biology with Hybrid Methods

October 3, 2015 in Osaka, Japan. Read more.

2014: International Year of Crystallography

A downloadable calendar and related images were created to celebrate IYCr. Read more.

2013: A Celebration of Open Access in Structural Biology

A special public symposium was held on September 26, 2013 in New Jersey. Read more.

Special Symposium on PDB: Basis for Life Science and Drug Development

A special public symposium was held on October 13, 2012 in Osaka, Japan. Read more.

PDB40

On October 28-30, 2011, a unique meeting was held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the PDB. Read more.