clickable matchups for the first round

Anand Divakaran, author of the winning Protein of the Year 2013 entry, holds the Jane Richardson Cup. This was the breakthrough year for nitrogenase after it had been eliminated in the Final Four in 2012.

If you are interested in participating in the voting, please submit your request to arnoys_at_calvin_dot_edu.

The Quest for the Jane Richardson Cup

Linus Pauling Regional:

lectin vs. cholera toxin

verotoxin vs. tetanospasmin

botulinum toxin vs. ricin

carbohydrate oxidase vs. MERS-CoV spike protein

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Regional:

ATP synthase vs. Pho D

myosin vs. proteasome

FMN-binding domain vs. channelrhodopsin

insulin vs. miraculin

Christian Anfinsen Regional:

P53 vs. eosinophil cationic protein

BACE vs. sonic hedgehog

Tissue plasminogen activator vs. Na/K ATPase

reelin vs. wzi

Max Perutz Regional:

antifreeze proteins vs. hemoglobin

human serum albumin vs. XEG

chaperone vs. FKBP22

glycogenin vs. DNA ligase