祝賀石建金同學在首屆iBiology Young Scientist Seminars活動中獲獎

北京生命科學研究所邵峰實驗室的石建金同學（PTN項目2010級研究生）近日在首屆（2015年度）iBiology Young Scientist Seminars活動（該活動由拉斯克基金會，紐約大學石溪分校亞倫·艾達科學交流中心和iBiology網站合作組織）中脫穎而出，成為全球范圍內五名獲獎者之一，在紐約大學石溪分校亞倫·艾達科學交流中心參加培訓并錄制了有關其科學研究發現的講座視頻（視頻鏈接http://www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/jianjin-shi.html）。該活動吸引了大量來自世界各地的生命科學領域的博士研究生和博士后申請者。通過專家評委初試和skype面試，石建金和其他四位分別來自美國和英國青年研究人員最終獲得了該獎項。在研究生期間，石建金同學發現一類全新的識別細胞內識別細菌脂多糖的先天免疫受體（人類caspase-4/5和小鼠caspase-11）；完成一個高通量的小分子化合物篩選并發現多個可能可以治療人類敗血癥和多種自身免疫病的先導化合物；解析了細胞焦亡（一種促炎性的細胞程序性死亡）發生的機理，并為治療敗血癥和自身免疫病提供了全新的藥物靶點。

附The Young Scientist Seminars和iBiology簡介如下：

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.