CECILE M. PICKART
STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD

In tribute to the character and accomplishments of Cecile M. Pickart (1954 – 2006), a student travel award has been established in her name. Its purpose is to encourage young scientists who give early evidence of perpetuating the salient qualities that were Cecile Pickart's: skill, insight, creativity, rigor, and dedication to science.

Obituary by Mark Hochstrasser & Robert Cohen, Nature Cell Biology (2006)

The Cecile M. Pickart Student Travel Award is an award given biennially to two young scientists for outstanding work in the field of ubiquitin. The award will be presented at the biennial Cold Spring Harbor meeting on ubiquitin (currently entitled “The Ubiquitin Family”). The award for each of the two winners will at minimum cover a full attendance package at the meeting (includes registration, room and board), with the exact amount in any given year to be determined by the award committee and the fund manager. The award is also intended, depending on availability of funds, to provide a travel allowance over and above the cost of the full attendance package for the biennial ubiquitin meeting. A brief introduction of the year's awardees and the nature of the prize will be presented by the meeting organizers. The 2007 meeting will be held in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. April 25–29.

ELIGIBILITY. All nominees must be graduate students currently enrolled in a recognized PhD program. International students are welcome to apply. Nominees must submit an abstract to the biennial Cold Spring Harbor ubiquitin meeting for consideration as an oral presentation by the normal deadline, January 31. Nominees should therefore be willing and able to report orally on their current research at the meeting.

SUBMISSION OF NOMINATIONS. Self-nomination is acceptable. Nominations should include a one page statement of the candidate's current research interests and research findings, a curriculum vitae and a letter of reference from the PhD mentor or advisor. Nominations should be submitted as pdf files via email to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings and Courses Program Office (2007 nominations should be sent to Ms. Valerie Pakaluk, pakaluk@cshl.edu). Nominations must be received by February 28.

AWARDS COMMITTEE. The selection of the awards from the submitted nominations will be made by majority vote of the members of the Awards Committee. The Awards Committee will include the Organizers of the current Cold Spring Harbor ubiquitin meeting, the chair of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (or his/her designate) and one [non-voting] faculty member of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory staff.

Members of the 2007 Award Committee:

Dr. Joan Conaway
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
1000 East 50th
Kansas City MO 64110

Dr. Raymond Deshaies
California Institute of Technology
Biology, 156-29
1200 E. California Blvd.
Pasadena CA 91125

Dr. J. Wade Harper
Harvard Medical School
Dept. of Pathology-Harper Lab
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston MA 02115

Dr. Roger McMacken, Chair
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
615 North Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21205

(Fund manager)
Dr. David J. Stewart
Executive Director
Meetings & Courses Program
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
1 Bungtown Road/P.O. Box 100
Cold Spring Harbor NY 11724

CALL FOR DONATIONS: Individual and corporate donations to the Cecile Pickart Student Travel Award endowment fund are welcome and should be made payable to "Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory". Checks should be clearly marked "Cecile Pickart Fund" and sent to:

Ms. Jill Stone,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Office of Development
1 Bungtown Road (fed-ex/ups) / PO Box 100 (post)
Cold Spring Harbor NY 11724-2213
Tel 516 367 6859
Email: stone@cshl.edu

Note that Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization.

We acknowledge the efforts of the Awards Committee in the selection process, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in administering the endowment fund, and of the many private individuals who have provided generous support.

Obituary by Mark Hochstrasser & Robert Cohen, Nature Cell Biology (2006)