Poster Prize Awarded at ASBMB

03/30 

The wwPDB Foundation made an award for an outstanding student presentation at the 2026 meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB; March 7–10, 2026; National Harbor, MD).

Many thanks to the ASBMB organizers and poster prize judges for making this award possible.

Christine Zardecki (wwPDB Foundation) and Sara Scanlan (James Madison University)

The Structural Mechanism of Malate Dehydrogenases and Support for the Reciprocating Mechanism of Catalysis
Sara Scanlan, Ellis Bell, Christopher Berndsen
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia

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