At the 18th Conference of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology ISHAM from June 11-15, 2012 in Berlin, Silke Palzer from the Fraunhofer IGB’s Molecular Biotechnology Department received one of ten prizes awarded with 300 euros for her poster “An expanded genetic code in C. albicans to study molecular interactions in vivo”. The co-authors of the poster, submitted in the Basic Mycology category, were Yannick Bantel, Franziska Kazenwadel, Michael Berg, Steffen Rupp and Kai Sohn. The winning criteria in the evaluation of the over 800 posters submitted were scientific quality and presentation of the content.