祝贺石建金同学在首届iBiology Young Scientist Seminars活动中获奖

北京生命科学研究所邵峰实验室的石建金同学（PTN项目2010级研究生）近日在首届（2015年度）iBiology Young Scientist Seminars活动（该活动由拉斯克基金会，纽约大学石溪分校亚伦·艾达科学交流中心和iBiology网站合作组织）中脱颖而出，成为全球范围内五名获奖者之一，在纽约大学石溪分校亚伦·艾达科学交流中心参加培训并录制了有关其科学研究发现的讲座视频（视频链接http://www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/jianjin-shi.html）。该活动吸引了大量来自世界各地的生命科学领域的博士研究生和博士后申请者。通过专家评委初试和skype面试，石建金和其他四位分别来自美国和英国青年研究人员最终获得了该奖项。在研究生期间，石建金同学发现一类全新的识别细胞内识别细菌脂多糖的先天免疫受体（人类caspase-4/5和小鼠caspase-11）；完成一个高通量的小分子化合物筛选并发现多个可能可以治疗人类败血症和多种自身免疫病的先导化合物；解析了细胞焦亡（一种促炎性的细胞程序性死亡）发生的机理，并为治疗败血症和自身免疫病提供了全新的药物靶点。

附The Young Scientist Seminars和iBiology简介如下：

The Young Scientist Seminars is a collaboration between the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, and iBiology. The Young Scientist Seminars is a new video series featuring talented PhD students and postdocs giving talks about their research and discoveries. From studying the genetic origins of melanoma to tracking leopard shark behavior off the California coast, these young scientists tell compelling research stories using narrative, analogies, and visuals. The five speakers were selected from a large pool of accomplished scientists from around the world in a competition held earlier this year. In preparation for recording their talks, they attended a science communication workshop at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. They incorporated what they learned from the workshop into their video presentations.

    iBiology's mission is to convey, in the form of open-access free videos, the excitement of modern biology and the process by which scientific discoveries are made. Our aim is to let you meet the leading scientists in biology, so that you can find out how they think about scientific questions and conduct their research, and can get a sense of their personalities, opinions, and perspectives. We also seek to support educators who want to incorporate materials that illustrate the process and practice of science into their curriculum. This project is made possible by the good will of many biologists who are committed to making their work broadly accessible and to conveying the excitement of biology to a worldwide audience. iBiology.org (formerly ibioseminars.org and ibiomagazine.org) was developed to bring the best biology to people throughout the world for free. Started in 2006 by University of California, San Francisco and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Professor Ron Vale, iBiology has grown to include over 300 seminars and short talks by the world’s leading scientists. Our collection includes talks by many Nobel Laureates and members of the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 2013, we released our first full-length course in Light Microscopy and expanded the educational resources we offer. iBiology is funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. iBiology is supported by the American Society for Cell Biology, the University of California, San Francisco, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, each of which has provided essential resources, funding, and in-kind services to iBiology since the project was started.