Yosua Adi Kristariyanto, a 4th year PhD student in Yogesh Kulathu’s lab, won the EMBO Journal Poster Award at the recent FASEB Conference on Ubiquitin and Cellular Regulation. The six-day conference held at Big Sky, Montana, USA was a platform for scientists across the world to meet and share recent findings in the ubiquitin field. The poster prize was chosen on the basis of outstanding science and presentation of the poster.

In his poster, Yosua presented exciting new data that provides novel concepts on how polyubiquitin chains are recognized by a small ubiquitin binding domain called the motif interacting with ubiquitin (MIU). Yosua investigated polyubiquitin binding in the MIU motifs of MINDY, a new family of deubiquitinating enzymes that was recently discovered in the Kulathu lab. Congratulations Yosua on this achievement!

Syed Arif Abdul Rehman, Yosua Kristariyanto and Soo-Youn Choi, the first authors on the recent Molecular Cell paper from the lab were interviewed in the Meet the Author section. Read what they had to say here.

The lab came up with artistic ideas for a cover page and Yosua’s sister Gratia Fidelina, a graphics illustrator blended them to produce a great picture that showcases the main findings of the paper.