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Publication of the Year in the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
The School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Graduate Studies Committee (GSC) met on Monday, 19 April to select the third awardee of the Professor Tom Cotter Medal for the 2020 Publication of the Year from a postgraduate research student in the School. Three entries were submitted, with full citations shown below.
After careful consideration and discussion, the GSC has awarded Dr Leonie Rieger with the 2020 Publication of the Year. A figure from the Science Signaling publication was featured on the cover of the journal issue, and the paper was the subject of a focus article in the journal entitled: “The tale of a tail: The secret behind IGF-1R’s oncogenic power” (Crudden and Girnita, 2020).
Leonie’s paper will now go forward for recognition in the College of SEFS Publication of the Year awards.
The committee would like to commend Leanne O’Sullivan and Dr Sarah Riis for their research contributions and their excellent first-author publications.
The GSC would like to thank all three for putting their work forward for consideration and encourage all postgraduates to do the same for the 2021 award.
Papers
Leonie Rieger, Sandra O’Shea, Grant Godsmark, Joanna Stanicka, Geraldine Kelly and Rosemary O’Connor. IGF-1 receptor activity in the Golgi of migratory cancer cells depends on adhesion-dependent phosphorylation of Tyr 1250 and Tyr 1251 Sci Signal, 2020 May 26;13(633):eaba3176. PMID: 32457113 DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.aba3176
Leanne R O’Sullivan, Gerardene Meade-Murphy, Oonagh M Gilligan, Vitaliy Mykytiv, Paul W Young and Mary R Cahill. Platelet hyperactivation in multiple myeloma is also evident in patients with premalignant monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance. Br J Haematol 2021 Jan;192(2):322-332. Epub 2020 Jun 1. PMID: 32478420 DOI: 10.1111/bjh.16774
Sarah Riis, Joss B Murray and Rosemary O’Connor. IGF-1 Signalling Regulates Mitochondria Dynamics and Turnover through a Conserved GSK-3β-Nrf2-BNIP3 Pathway. Cells 2020 Jan 8;9(1):147. PMID: 31936236 DOI: 10.3390/cells9010147.