Poster award for Petra Keller

Fraunhofer IGB News /

Petra Keller from the Fraunhofer IGB’s Molecular Biotechnology Department was awarded one of six prizes at the 11th European Conference on Fungal Genetics from March 30 to April 2, 2012 in Marburg for her poster “Identification and characterization of novel antifungal compounds against fungal human pathogens”. The poster, which was presented in the Biotechnology category, was rewarded with 150 euros. The co-authors were colleagues at the Institute for Interfacial Engineering IGVT at the University of Stuttgart and the Fraunhofer IGB as well as members of two further university groups and an SME: Anke Burger-Kentischer, Karl-Heinz Wiesmüller, Karin Lemuth, Ekkehard Hiller, Isabel Engelhardt, Christoph Müller, Klaus Schröppel, Franz Bracher and Steffen Rupp. Over 400 posters were submitted and evaluated according to scientific quality, presentation and design.