What Panos Soultanas did with his prize money…
Panos gave his money to Olivier Rannou (a second year PhD student) in order to pay for him to go to a conference in Sheffield. Olivier has written the following about what happened: As a second year PhD student in September I attended an international conference. This event gathered scientists from around the world to speak about their discoveries in the field of DNA replication, which is the most fundamental process in biology. During the four days, scientists gave talks and at the end of each talk we could ask questions in order to better understand the work of the speaker. It was very exciting as each of them was an expert in their subject and I could learn a lot about the newest discoveries in DNA replication in general. I was able to present a poster to show my results to this audience, and met a lot of people … Continue reading