Winners of poster prize competitions hosted at EMBO-sponsored workshops, conference series and ESF-EMBO Symposia receive a one-year subscription to EMBO reports and special mention in EMBOencounters. Congratulations to winners of competitions held at recent events:

Alexander Karlas (Berlin, Germany) for the poster Identification of host cell factors involved in infl uenza infection cycle presented at ESF-EMBO Symposium on Antiviral applications of RNA interference, 5-10 April 2008, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain.

Maria Tutukina (Pushchino, Russia) for the poster Transcription profile of the Escherichia coli uxuR gene presented at EMBO Conference Series on Genomes 2008: Functional genomics of microorganisms, 8-11 April 2008, Paris, France.

Analía Richeri (Montevideo, Uruguay) for the poster Estrogen regulation of semaphorin expression in the rat uterus presented at EMBO Workshop on Semaphorin function and mechanisms of action, 8-11 May 2008, Cernay-La-Ville, France.