Awardees of the Sinnecker-Kunz Award for Young Scientists

IJSTD-XI 2011

First prize winner: OXANA BELOVA

O.A. Belova, L.A. Burenkova, Y.V. Rogova, G.G. Karganova (Moscow, Russia):
Possible causes of the different tick-borne encephalitis virus prevalences in ixodid ticks, removed from humans and field-collected ticks

Second prize winner: ANU JÄÄSKELÄINEN

A. Jääskeläinen, E. Tonteri, T. Sironen, L. Pakarinen, A. Vaheri, O. Vapalahti (Helsinki, Finland; Solna, Sweden):
European subtype tick-borne encephalitis virus in Ixodes persulcatus and Myodes glareolus in Finnish Lapland

Third prize winner: BRANDON JUTRAS

B.L. Jutras, A. Bowman, A. Verma, A. Chenail, B. Stevenson (Lexington, KY, USA):
BpuR, a novel protein of Borrelia burgdorferi that binds erp Operator 1 DNA

IJSTD-X 2009

First prize winner: DANIEL RUZEK

Daniel Ruzek, Maria Vancova, Jiri Salat, Martina Tesarova, Hana Stastna, Jan Kopecky, Libor Grubhoffer (Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic):
A new insight into the neuropathogenesis of tick-borne encephalitis

IJSTD-XI 2007

First prize winner: EVELYN ROSSMANN

Evelyn Rossmann, Pia Herzberger, Michael Kirschfink, Markus M. Simon, Christine Skerka, Peter Zipfel, Peter Kraiczy, Reinhard Wallich (Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Germany):
Dual roles of BhCRASP-1, an outer membrane protein of the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii, in binding factor H and plasminogen

Second prize winners: CAROLINE BURRI

Caroline Burri, Francisca Morán Cadenas, Véronique Douet, Jacqueline Moret, Lise Gern (Neuchâtel, Switzerland):
Phenology of Ixodes ricinus and Borrelia burgdorferi infection prevalence along an altitudinal gradient in the Swiss Alps

Second prize winners: CORINNA SIEGEL

Corinna Siegel, Pia Herzberger, Christine Skerka, Volker Brade, Volker Fingerle, Ulrike Schulte-Spechtel, Peter F. Zipfel, Reinhard Wallich, Bettina Wilske, Peter Kraiczy (Frankfurt, Jena, Munich, Heidelberg, Germany):
Borrelia spielmanii resist complement-mediated killing by binding of immune regulators factor H and FHL-1

Second prize winners: MARION BLASCHITZ

Marion Blaschitz, M. Gföller, M. Kanzler, J. Walochnik, Gerold Stanek (Vienna, Austria):
Molecular detection of tick-borne pathogens in Austria