Fwd: SCIENTIFIC AWARDS Daniel Jouvance Foundation

[Richard Lord]

FYI

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From: Mark Costello - Leigh Marine <m.cos...@AUCKLAND.AC.NZ>

Date: 4 June 2013 01:24:01 GMT+01:00

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Subject: SCIENTIFIC AWARDS Daniel Jouvance Foundation

Reply-To: Mark Costello - Leigh Marine <m.cos...@AUCKLAND.AC.NZ>

Apologies for cross-postings

Dear colleagues,

The DANIEL JOUVANCE- Institut de France Foundation is yearly awarding a prize of 4000 € to a young scientist working in marine biology, marine chemistry, marine biotechnology or oceanography.

The topic for the 2013 prize is : Marine life and symbiosis

Applicants (less than 30 years old) should send before sept. 15 /2013

• A CV Curriculum Vitae (2 pages maximum)
• A short but consistent abstract of the scientific work (4 pages maximum)
• A copy of the title page of published papers and thesis.

To :

Daniel Jouvance Scientific Committee

c/o Prof. Y. LE GAL

Station de Biologie Marine du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle

CONCARNEAU - France

The documents will be sent exclusively by E-mail

yle...@mnhn.fr or y.le...@orange.fr

 

http://www.institut-de-france.fr/institutions/prix-amp-fondations/fondations/fondation-daniel-jouvance

 

I believe a recent applicant was Australian so open to all nationalities. This years theme is “Marine life and symbiosis”

 

 

 

Previous laureates:

2011 - Julien Claes Catholic Univ.( Louvain -Be) for his work on bioluminescence in the shark Etmopterus spinax.

2010 - Stéphanie Bondu, Université de Bretagne Occidentale (Brest- FR), Therapeutic exploitation of invasive marine algae.

2009 Aurélie Chambouvet, Marine Station ( Roscoff, FR): Control of Toxic Marine dinoflagellate Blooms by Parasitic Syndiniales.
2008 Daniel Jouvance "Young researcher" 2008 was Edd J. Stockdale, 26 years old and a researcher at the University of Western Australia. The theme of the 2008 award focused on the process of biomineralization in marine environments. Edd Stockdale work relates to the physiological mechanisms involved in biomineralization of iron among the chitons (Polyplacophora) marine molluscs. These organisms are grazers who will eat the algae growing on rocks.. Chitons have a "radula", sort of rape extremely hard due to the presence of structures biomineralized reinforced by iron. The work of Edd Stockdale is original in that it applies to the study of these techniques no longer covered biomineralized structures of biology but the science of materials. It is, in particular, electronic high-resolution microscopy which identified ferritin molecules. The appearance of these molecules is followed during embryo development. A very interesting aspect of the work of Edd Stockdale deals with aggregates of ferritin component these biomineralized structures. Ferritin is formed by kinds of cages consisting of 24 protein units, each unit consisting of 1500 to 4500 iron atoms according to the types of organizations. In studied molluscs, the ferritin include 3000 iron atoms and are extensively distributed throughout the body where they both play a role of transport and storage.