David Komander, an MRC Predoctoral Fellow, co-supervised by Dario Alessi and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow, Daan van Aalten, was selected as one of the ten finalists in the Biochemical Journal Young Investigator Award Competition out of 157 applicants, at the World Conference on Second Messengers and Phosphoproteins, Montreal, August 3-7.



David's abstract was entitled 'Structural Studies of 3-phosphoinositide Dependent Protein Kinase (PDK1): new insights in regulation of substrate interaction and localisation'.