Congratulations to Jenny van der Wijst, who is currently working as an EMBO Fellow in Dario Alessi's lab, studying the regulation and function of the unusual TRPM6 and TRPM7 ion channel-protein kinases. Jenny has just been awarded a prize for the best PhD thesis in 2011 of the Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, for her thesis entitled 'New patches in the molecular understanding of renal magnesium handling'.