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The Early Career Award, worth € 1000, is presented to an outstanding researcher who is within 10 years of receiving his or her PhD.

Bynoe received a bachelor's degree from MIT in June of this year with a double major in music and biology.

"Since my first snorkeling experience in the Mediterranean as a teenager, I had wanted to be a marine biologist and nothing else."

Sandrine Etienne-Manneville "knew exactly what she was doing, where the project was going, and what needed to be done," says former postdoc supervisor Alan Hall.

Nenad Ban made a name for himself by finally cracking the crystal structures of complex macromolecules.

Justin Siegel rationally engineered unnatural enzymes partly thanks to technology his dad helped develop.

"We focus on real problems, and we tackle them from the very basic to the more macular levels," says June Chaikelson, dean of arts and science at Concordia University.

"It is definitely an asset to work with more than one system. It opens us up to different ways of thinking and keeps us flexible and less likely to sink into dogma. The differences in how the various systems are wired are as important as the similarities." --Sabeeha Merchant, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Fátima Al-Shahrour is working to interpret the genome to help select more effective drugs for cancer patients.

Game designer and former biologist Jeremy Friedberg won an honorable mention in this year's Science Visualization Challenge

"The merger of molecular biology, micro systems technology, and chemical catalysis will revolutionize our way of synthesizing molecules. ..."

"This is an environment where everyone is considered and assumed to be a responsible, engaged adult until proven otherwise. You do what you have to do to get the job done." -Holly Butler

"If the schoolteacher has even only a slightly scientific mind, it can only benefit the children, as he or she is the person who is going to inspire them."