Prof. Luca Jovine (Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
was awarded with our Best Speaker Award for his talk "Egg-sperm interaction by ZP3"
during the 17th European Testis Workshop
Our first paper was published!
Noora Kotaja, Turku, Finland was granted our newly established Young Researcher Award for outstanding researchers in our field
during our meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Noora has defended her thesis 2003, did a postdoctoral fellow first in Paolo Sassone-Corsi's group in France
and then in Jorma Toppari's group in Turku. She is a docent of Physiology since 2007 and already has her own group.
She is faculty appointed supervisor of 4 PhD students and her research is focused on
small non-coding RNAs and the chromatoid body - mediated RNA regulation in male germ cells.
Noora has an impressive publication list with articles in e.g. PNAS and Nature Methods.
Our award included invitation to our meeting and the possibility to present her research in the lecture
"Control of spermatogenesis by miRNAs and piRNAs".
In addition, our award includes the nomination for the Young Andrologist Award
of the International Society of Andrology (ISA) that will be awarded during
the upcoming ICA (see below).
From now on, our Young Investigator Award will be handed out every other year
alternating with the Best Speaker Award during the European Testis Workshops.
The
International Network for Young Researchers in Male Fertility,
was
founded in April 2006 during the 14th European Testis Workshop in Bavaria, Germany,
to assist young scientists in testis research in achieving their highest potential as a researcher,
and to stimulate good and efficient science in the field.
Our group is committed to
establishing global networks between young (early stage) scientists
in testicular research and to promote cooperation and mutual exchange of methodologies and expertise.
Therefore, we provide a more informal way of communication than the usual congresses and meetings
with this
homepage including a forum to request help or information concerning technical aspects
of methodologies used in testicular science, but also to discuss theoretical topics.
Joining our network is free! - If you are interested, you may register here:
Registration for our network >>
