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Cozzarelli Prize
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The annual award acknowledges papers that reflect scientific excellence and originality. The award was established in 2005 and named in 2007 to honor late PNAS Editor-in-Chief Nicholas R. Cozzarelli.
This award is given annually to six papers published in PNAS. This year’s award winners will be recognized during the PNAS Editorial Board Meeting and the NAS Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony on May 1, 2016, in Washington, DC.
2015 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Mimicking the magnetic properties of rare earth elements using superatoms by Shi-Bo Cheng, Cuneyt Berkdemir, and A. W. Castleman Jr.
Biological Sciences
Maternal intestinal HIF-2α is necessary for sensing iron demands of lactation in mice by Sadeesh K. Ramakrishnan, Erik R. Anderson, Angelical Martin, Brook Centofanti, and Yatrik M. Shah
Engineering and Applied Sciences
Origami tubes assembled into stiff, yet reconfigurable structures and metamaterials by Evgueni T. Filipov, Tomohiro Tachi, and Glaucio H. Paulino
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Biomedical Sciences
Evidence for α-synuclein prions causing multiple system atrophy in humans with parkinsonism by Stanley B. Prusiner, Amanda L. Woerman, Daniel A. Mordes, Joel C. Watts, Ryan Rampersaud, David B. Berry, Smita Patel, Abby Oehler, Jennifer K. Lowe, Stephanie N. Kravitz, Daniel H. Geschwind, David V. Glidden, Glenda M. Halliday, Lefkos T. Middleton, Steve M. Gentleman, Lea T. Grinberg, and Kurt Giles
A commentary accompanying this article is available.
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century by Anne Case and Angus Deaton
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Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
Low-cost solution to the grid reliability problem with 100% penetration of intermittent wind, water, and solar for all purposes by Mark Z. Jacobson, Mark A. Delucchi, Mary A. Cameron, and Bethany A. Frew
2014 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
High-precision timeline for Earth’s most severe extinction by Seth D. Burgess, Samuel Bowring, and Shu-zhong Shen
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Biological Sciences
A propagating ATPase gradient drives transport of surface-confined cellular cargo by Anthony G. Vecchiarelli, Keir C. Neuman, and Kiyoshi Mizuuchi
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Engineering and Applied Sciences
Sphericity and symmetry breaking in the formation of Frank–Kasper phases from one component materials by Sangwoo Lee, Chris Leighton and Frank S. Bates
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Biomedical Sciences
Transfer of noncoding DNA drives regulatory rewiring in bacteria by Yaara Oren, Mark B. Smith, Nathan I. Johns, Millie Kaplan Zeevi, Dvora Biran, Eliora Z. Ron, Jukka Corander, Harris H. Wang, Eric J. Alm, and Tal Pupko
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Behavioral and Social Sciences
Neural and cognitive characteristics of extraordinary altruists by Abigail A. Marsh, Sarah A. Stoycos, Kristin M. Brethel-Haurwitz, Paul Robinson, John W. VanMeter, and Elise M. Cardinale
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Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
China's international trade and air pollution in the United States by Jintai Lin, Da Pan, Steven J. Davis, Qiang Zhang, Kebin He, Can Wang, David G. Streets, Donald J. Wuebbles, and Dabo Guan
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2013 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
The prevalence of Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars by Erik A. Petigura, Andrew W. Howard, and Geoffrey W. Marcy
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Biological Sciences
Task-related "cortical" bursting depends critically on basal ganglia input and is linked to vocal plasticity by Satoshi Kojima, Mimi H. Kao, and Allison J. Doupe
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Engineering and Applied Sciences
Gas production in the Barnett Shale obeys a simple scaling theory by Tad W. Patzek, Frank Male, and Michael Marder
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Biomedical Sciences
Human placental trophoblasts confer viral resistance to recipient cells by Elizabeth Delorme-Axford, Rogier B. Donker, Jean-Francois Mouillet, Tianjiao Chu, Avraham Bayer, Yingshi Ouyang, Tianyi Wang, Donna B. Stolz, Saumendra N. Sarkar, Adrian E. Morelli, Yoel Sadovsky, and Carolyn B. Coyne
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Behavioral and Social Sciences
Historical collections reveal patterns of diffusion of sweet potato in Oceania obscured by modern plant movements and recombination by Caroline Roullier, Laure Benoit, Doyle B. McKey, and Vincent Lebot
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Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
Neonicotinoid clothianidin adversely affects insect immunity and promotes replication of a viral pathogen in honey bees by Gennaro Di Prisco, Valeria Cavaliere, Desiderato Annoscia, Paola Varricchio, Emilio Caprio, Francesco Nazzi, Giuseppe Gargiulo, and Francesco Pennacchio
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2012 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Water, plants, and early human habitats in eastern Africa by Clayton R. Magill, Gail M. Ashley, and Katherine H. Freeman
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Biological Sciences
Eight pairs of descending visual neurons in the dragonfly give wing motor centers accurate population vector of prey direction by Paloma T.
Gonzalez-Bellido, Hanchuan Peng, Jinzhu Yang, Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, and Robert M. Olberg
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Engineering and Applied Sciences
Point process modelling of the Afghan War Diary by Andrew Zammit-Mangion, Michael Dewar, Visakan Kadirkamanathan, and Guido Sanguinetti
Biomedical Sciences
Robust cardiomyocyte differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells via temporal modulation of canonical Wnt signaling by Xiaojun Lian, Cheston Hsiao, Gisela Wilson, Kexian Zhu, Laurie B. Hazeltine, Samira M. Azarin, Kunil K. Raval, Jianhua Zhang, Timothy J. Kamp, and Sean P. Palecek
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Behavioral and Social Sciences
Evolution of music by public choice by Robert M. MacCallum, Matthias Mauch, Austin Burt, and Armand M. Leroi
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Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
Arabidopsis synchronizes jasmonate-mediated defense with insect circadian behavior by Danielle Goodspeed, E. Wassim Chehab, Amelia Min-Venditti, Janet Braam, and Michael F. Covington
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2011 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Microaerobic steroid biosynthesis and the molecular fossil record of Archean life by Jacob R. Waldbauer, Dianne K. Newman, and Roger E. Summons
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Biological Sciences
Mild hyperthermia inhibits homologous recombination, induces BRCA2 degradation, and sensitizes cancer cells to poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 inhibition by Przemek M. Krawczyk, Berina Eppink, Jeroen Essers, Jan Stap, Hans Rodermond, Hanny Odijk, Alex Zelensky, Chris van Bree, Lukas J. Stalpers, Marrije R. Buist, Thomas Soullié, Joost Rens, Hence J. M. Verhagen, Mark J. O'Connor, Nicolaas A. P. Franken, Timo L. M. ten Hagen, Roland Kanaar, and Jacob A. Aten
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Engineering and Applied Sciences
The Voronoi Implicit Interface Method for computing multiphase physics by Robert I. Saye and James A. Sethian
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Biomedical Sciences
Masking the 5' terminal nucleotides of the hepatitis C virus genome by an unconventional microRNA-target RNA complex by Erica S. Machlin, Peter Sarnow, and Selena M. Sagan
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Behavioral and Social Sciences
The long shadow cast by childhood physical and mental problems on adult life by Alissa Goodman, Robert Joyce, and James P. Smith
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Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
Conditions associated with protected area success in conservation and poverty reduction by Paul J. Ferraro, Merlin M. Hanauer, and Katharine R. E. Sims
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2010 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients
The 2010 Cozzarelli prize winners were honored at the PNAS Editorial Board Meeting on May 1, 2011, in National Harbor, Maryland (from left to right): Liza R. Moscovice, Won-Yong Song, Jiyoung Park, Jasmine T. Perez, Benjamin R. tenOever, Edward Barry, Zvonimir Dogic, Sheng-Li Cai, Angela Alexander, Cheryl Lyn Walker, Robina Shaheen, and Gerardo Dominguez.
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Detection of oxygen isotopic anomaly in terrestrial atmospheric carbonates and its implications to Mars by R. Shaheen, A. Abramian, J. Horn, G. Dominguez, R. Sullivan, and Mark H. Thiemens
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Biological Sciences
ATM signals to TSC2 in the cytoplasm to regulate mTORC1 in response to ROS by Angela Alexander, Sheng-Li Cai, Jinhee Kim, Adrian Nanez, Mustafa Sahin, Kirsteen H. MacLean, Ken Inoki, Kun-Liang Guan, Jianjun Shen, Maria D. Person, Donna Kusewitt, Gordon B. Mills, Michael B. Kastan, and Cheryl Lyn Walker
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Engineering and Applied Sciences
Entropy driven self-assembly of nonamphiphilic colloidal membranes by Edward Barry and Zvonimir Dogic
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Biomedical Sciences
Influenza A virus-generated small RNAs regulate the switch from transcription to replication by Jasmine T. Perez, Andrew Varble, Ravi Sachidanandam, Ivan Zlatev, Muthiah Manoharan, Adolfo García-Sastre, and Benjamin R. tenOever
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Behavioral and Social Sciences
Contingent cooperation between wild female baboons by Dorothy L. Cheney, Liza R. Moscovice, Marlies Heesen, Roger Mundry, and Robert M. Seyfarth
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Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
Arsenic tolerance in Arabidopsis is mediated by two ABCC-type phytochelatin transporters by Won-Yong Song, Jiyoung Park, David G. Mendoza-Cózatl, Marianne Suter-Grotemeyer, Donghwan Shim, Stefan Hörtensteiner, Markus Geisler, Barbara Weder, Philip A. Rea, Doris Rentsch, Julian I. Schroeder, Youngsook Lee, and Enrico Martinoia
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2009 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients
The 2009 Cozzarelli prize winners were honored at the PNAS Editorial Board Meeting on April 25, 2010, in National Harbor, Maryland (from left to right): Christian Degen, Dan Rugar, Vera Gorbunova, Andrei Seluanov, Michael Köttgen, Owen Woodward, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Lennart Balk, Per-Åke Hägerroth, John Dore, and David Karl.
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Physical and biogeochemical modulation of ocean acidification in the central North Pacific by John E. Dore, Roger Lukas, Daniel W. Sadler, Matthew J. Church, and David M. Karl
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Biological Sciences
Identification of a urate transporter, ABCG2, with a common functional polymorphism causing gout by Owen M. Woodward, Anna Köttgen, Josef Coresh, Eric Boerwinkle, William B. Guggino, and Michael Köttgen
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Engineering and Applied Sciences
Nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging by C. L. Degen, M. Poggio, H. J. Mamin, C. T. Rettner, and D. Rugar
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Biomedical Sciences
Hypersensitivity to contact inhibition provides a clue to cancer resistance of naked mole-rat by Andrei Seluanov, Christopher Hine, Jorge Azpurua, Marina Feigenson, Michael Bozzella, Zhiyong Mao, Kenneth C. Catania, and Vera Gorbunova
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Behavioral and Social Sciences
Neural correlates of admiration and compassion by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Andrea McColl, Hanna Damasio, and Antonio Damasio
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Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
Wild birds of declining European species are dying from a thiamine deficiency syndrome by Lennart Balk, Per-Åke Hägerroth, Gun Åkerman, Marsha Hanson, Ulla Tjärnlund, Tomas Hansson, Gunnar Thor Hallgrimsson, Yngve Zebühr, Dag Broman, Torsten Mörner, and Henrik Sundberg
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2008 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients
The 2008 Cozzarelli prize winners were honored at the PNAS Editorial Board Meeting on April 26, 2009, in Washington, DC (from left to right): Katia Koelle, Yoshiro Nagao, Raymond Jeanloz, Marius Wernig, Daniel H. Kim, John J. Rossi, Karen McComb, Leanne Proops, and Albert-Laszlo Barabási.
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Fluid helium at conditions of giant planetary interiors by Lars Stixrude and Raymond Jeanloz
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Biological Sciences
MicroRNA-directed transcriptional gene silencing in mammalian cells by Daniel H. Kim, Pål Sætrom, Ola Snøve, Jr., and John J. Rossi
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Engineering and Applied Sciences
The implications of human metabolic network topology for disease comorbidity by D.-S. Lee, J. Park, K. A. Kay, N. A. Christakis, Z. N. Oltvai, and A.-L. Barabási
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Biomedical Sciences
Neurons derived from reprogrammed fibroblasts functionally integrate into the fetal brain and improve symptoms of rats with Parkinson's disease by Marius Wernig, Jian-Ping Zhao, Jan Pruszak, Eva Hedlund, Dongdong Fu, Frank Soldner, Vania Broccoli, Martha Constantine-Paton, Ole Isacson, and Rudolf Jaenisch
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Behavioral and Social Sciences
Cross-modal individual recognition in domestic horses (Equus caballus) by Leanne Proops, Karen McComb, and David Reby
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Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
Decreases in dengue transmission may act to increase the incidence of dengue hemorrhagic fever by Yoshiro Nagao and Katia Koelle
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2007 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients
The 2007 Cozzarelli prize winners were honored at the PNAS Editorial Board Meeting on April 27, 2008, in Washington, DC (from left to right): Serguei N. Skatchkov, Andreas Reichenbach, Tommy Cedervall, R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Jim Moore, Iseult Lynch, Kenneth A. Dawson, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Graziano Vernizzi, Brian Spencer, Kristian Franze, and Sandra Díaz.
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Understanding the nanoparticle-protein corona using methods to quantify exchange rates and affinities of proteins for nanoparticles by Tommy Cedervall, Iseult Lynch, Stina Lindman, Tord Berggrd, Eva Thulin, Hanna Nilsson, Kenneth A. Dawson, and Sara Linse
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Biological Sciences
Müller cells are living optical fibers in the vertebrate retina by Kristian Franze, Jens Grosche, Serguei N. Skatchkov, Stefan Schinkinger, Christian Foja, Detlev Schild, Ortrud Uckermann, Kort Travis, Andreas Reichenbach, and Jochen Guck
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Engineering and Applied Sciences
Faceting ionic shells into icosahedra via electrostatics by Graziano Vernizzi and Monica Olvera de la Cruz
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Biomedical Sciences
Targeted delivery of proteins across the blood-brain barrier by Brian J. Spencer and Inder M. Verma
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Behavioral and Social Sciences
Savanna chimpanzees use tools to harvest the underground storage organs of plants by R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Jim Moore, and Travis Rayne Pickering
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Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments by Sandra Díaz, Sandra Lavorel, Francesco de Bello, Fabien Quétier, Karl Grigulis, and T. Matthew Robson
This article was cited in the PNAS Land Change Science Special Feature.
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2006 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients
The 2006 Cozzarelli prize winners were honored at the PNAS Editorial Board Meeting on April 29, 2007, in Washington, DC (from left to right): Francesco Mallamace, Sow-Hsin Chen, Pat Levitt, Christian J. Kastrup, Stefan W. Hell, Gerald Donnert, Jeffrey R. Vincent, and Maximilian Auffhammer.
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Modular chemical mechanism predicts spatiotemporal dynamics of initiation in the complex network of hemostasis by Christian J. Kastrup, Matthew K. Runyon, Feng Shen, and Rustem F. Ismagilov
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Biological Sciences
Macromolecular-scale resolution in biological fluorescence microscopy by Gerald Donnert, Jan Keller, Rebecca Medda, M. Alexandra Andrei, Silvio O. Rizzoli, Reinhard Lührmann, Reinhard Jahn, Christian Eggeling, and Stefan W. Hell
Engineering and Applied Sciences
The violation of the Stokes-Einstein relation in supercooled water by Sow-Hsin Chen, Francesco Mallamace, Chung-Yuan Mou, Matteo Broccio, Carmelo Corsaro, Antonio Faraone, and Li Liu
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Biomedical Sciences
A genetic variant that disrupts MET transcription is associated with autism by Daniel B. Campbell, James S. Sutcliffe, Philip J. Ebert, Roberto Militerni, Carmela Bravaccio, Simona Trillo, Maurizio Elia, Cindy Schneider, Raun Melmed, Roberto Sacco, Antonio M. Persico, and Pat Levitt
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Insights on linking forests, trees, and people from the air, on the ground, and in the laboratory by Elinor Ostrom and Harini Nagendra
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Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
Integrated model shows that atmospheric brown clouds and greenhouse gases have reduced rice harvests in India by Maximilian Auffhammer, V. Ramanathan, and Jeffrey R. Vincent
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2005 Cozzarelli Prize Recipient
PNAS' first Paper of the Year prize was awarded to Karl Mahlburg, a doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for his paper "Partition congruences and the Andrews-Garvan-Dyson crank." Mahlburg's article solves a critical part of a mathematical puzzle in number theory. His paper was chosen from among 3,000 papers published in the journal in 2005. Mahlburg was recognized on April 23, 2006, at the PNAS Editorial Board meeting in Washington, DC.
Partition congruences and the Andrews-Garvan-Dyson crank by Karl Mahlburg
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