The wwPDB Foundation made awards for outstanding student presentation at the 2026 Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr; August 11-18; Calgary, Canada).

Many thanks to the IUCr organizers and poster prize judges for making this award possible.

Ryu Williston and colleagues at his poster

Using Cryo-ET to Rethink Bacterial Grappling Hook Assembly
Ryu Williston (1), Yu Ting (Cindy) Lin (2), James Iarocci (1), Haoxuan Yang (1), Ylan Nguyen (3), Lori Burrows (3), Lisa Craig (2), Shuaiqi Guo (1)
1)Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and Centre of Research in Structural Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC
2)Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
3)Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, and Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

Philip Rushton and poster

Resistance Fighters: Developing a Novel HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitor to Combat Gram-Positive Bacteria
Phillip S. Rushton (1), C. Nicklaus Steussy (1), Tim Schmidt (1), Matt Hostetler (2), Daneli Lopéz-Pérez (2), Mohamed N. Seleem (3), Mark Lipton (2), Cynthia V. Stauffacher (1)
1) Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
2) Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
3) Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

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