It is our great pleasure to announce that Institute’s Scientific Council awarded prizes for the best articles published by IBB’s scientists in 2021.

In the category of experimental articles:

I prize:

• Detman A, Laubitz D, Chojnacka A, Kiela PR, Salamon A, Barberán A, Chen Y, Yang F, Błaszczyk MK, Sikora A.
  Dynamics of dark fermentation microbial communities in the light of lactate and butyrate production.
  Microbiome. 2021, 9:158.

Scientific Council decided also to highlight experimental articles:

• Gutkowska M, Kaus-Drobek M, Hoffman-Sommer M, Małgorzata Pamuła M, Daria Leja A, Perycz M, Lichocka M, Witek A, Wojtas M, Dadlez M, Swiezewska E, Surmacz L.
  Impact of C-terminal truncations in the Arabidopsis Rab escort protein (REP) on REP- Rab interaction and plant fertility.
  Plant J. 2021 Dec;108(5):1400-1421
• Mazur R, Maszkowska J, Anielska-Mazur A, Garstka M, Polkowska-Kowalczyk L, Czajkowska A, Zmienko A, Dobrowolska G, Kulik A.
  The SnRK2.10 kinase mitigates the adverse effects of salinity by protecting photosynthetic machinery.
  Plant Physiol. 2021 Dec 4;187(4):2785-2802. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiab438. PMID: 34632500

In the category of reviews, one prize was awarded to:

• Turowski TW, Boguta M (2021)
  Specific Features of RNA Polymerases I and III: Structure and Assembly.
  Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 14;8:680090

Congratulations to all the authors of award-winning and highlighted articles!