Director of IMG cordially congratulates the authors of the papers evaluated by the IMG Council as the best ones in 2019:

1^st position:
Balounová J, Šplíchalová I, Dobešová M, Kolář M, Fišer K, Procházka J, Sedlacek R, Jurisicova A, Sung HK, Kořínek V, Alberich-Jorda M, Godin I, Filipp D: Toll-like receptor 2 expression on c-kit cells tracks the emergence of embryonic definitive hematopoietic progenitors. Nat Commun 2019 10(1): 5176. [pubmed] [doi]

The Financial reward of the authors is 50.000,- CZK (together).

2^nd position:
Krchnáková Z, Thakur PK, Krausová M, Bieberstein N, Haberman N, MüllerMcNicoll M, Stanek D: Splicing of long non-coding RNAs primarily depends on polypyrimidine tract and 5′ splice-site sequences due to weak interactions with SR proteins. Nucleic Acids Res 2019 47(2): 911-928. [pubmed] [doi] [Open access]

The Financial reward of the authors is 40.000,- CZK (together).

3^rd position:
Mihola O, Pratto F, Brick K, Linhartova E, Kobets T, Flachs P, Baker CL, Sedlacek R, Paigen K, Petkov PM, Camerini-Otero RD, Trachtulec Z: Histone methyltransferase PRDM9 is not essential for meiosis in male mice. Genome Res 2019 29(7): 1078-1086. [pubmed] [doi]

The Financial reward of the authors is 30.000,- CZK (together).

congratulation