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Here are the latest competition winners from our prize draws at tradeshows and other events. They all win a free antibody of their choice!

• Jim Simmons - University of North Carolina Research Product Vendor Show
• Rebecca Whittlesey - Duke University Research Product Vendor Show
• Joel Berletch - University of Washington Research Product Vendor Show

Please email Abraffle@abcam.com from the email address you submitted in order to claim your prize.

As well as organizing our own conferences to provide opportunities for junior scientists to showcase their work, we send our scientific experts all over the world to keep up-to-date with the latest research. Check out other scientific tradeshows that we will be attending, we look forward to meeting you!

Have you entered one of our prize draws at a tradeshow or one of our other events? Check out the latest competition winners to see if you've won a free antibody of your choice!

• Dan Feldman, Biotechnology Calendar Vendor Fair, UC Davis
• Emily Faivre, Biotechnology Calendar Vendor Fair, UCSF Mission Bay
• Alana Wong, Biotechnology Calendar Vendor Fair, UC Berkeley

Please email Abraffle@abcam.com from the email address you submitted in order to claim your prize.

Winners must contact us within two weeks of date of trade show or prize will be forfeited.

If you'd like to meet us and give feedback on our products, find out about licensing your antibodies, or talk about the latest developments in your area of research, check out the other events we will be attending, and the calendar of our own scientific conferences.

Since we launched our microsite last November to celebrate our new packaging, scientists around the world have been furiously playing the online game trying to reach the high score leader board.

As well as bragging rights, they were also competing for prizes - with the ten highest scores on the last day of each month receiving Amazon vouchers!

The lucky winners for the last two months are listed below, and should be congratulated for the ridiculously high scores they reached!

December

• '1151867'
• Will B
• Max Rooth
• Omar Sharif
• Dr Pepper
• John Wilson
• Bigs
• Bootsy80
• A Naidu
• Pippa Strong

November

• James P
• Jessica Spradley
• John Wilson
• Lincoln Pasquina
• T L
• Adam B
• Kjdsg
• NJB
• Lisa Reynolds
• Pippa Strong

Check out buildingblocks.abcam.com to find out more and play the game

Have you entered one of our prize draws at a tradeshow or one of our other events? Check out the latest competition winners to see if you've won a free antibody of your choice!

• Caitlin Jones-Bamman - NIH Fall Research Festival
• Malini Varadarajan - Whitehead Institute Postdoc Association Vendor Fair
• Federico Bernal - Dana Farber Pediatric Oncology Social Hour
• Melanie Ratnam - SGC - Epigenetic Mechanisms in health and disease

Please email Abraffle@abcam.com from the email address you submitted in order to claim your prize.

Winners must contact us within two weeks of date of trade show or prize will be forfeited.

If you'd like to meet us and give feedback on our products, find out about licensing your antibodies, or talk about the latest developments in your area of research, check out the other events we will be attending, and the calendar of our own scientific conferences.

The winner of Abcam's iPod Touch prize drawing at the spring meeting of the Society for General Microbiology in Harrogate, UK was Gemma Watkins (University of Warwick).

"The SGM in Harrogate was actually the first conference I had been to so it was a good introduction into the ways scientists present their work to the wider community. The poster sessions were a good way of interacting directly with researchers on a more personal level, which I found useful as it can be very daunting asking questions in a large talk session! And winning an iPod has definitely resulted in a most favorable opinion of the Harrogate SGM so thank you very much! "

Microbiology products at Abcam

In October, we ran a competition to celebrate Abcam's tenth anniversary, offering the chance to win three prizes: a day out for your lab, a meal for your lab, and a basket of delicacies.

Learn more about the Abcam story, and find out how the winners got on below...

First prize: Dr Fumiko (Pathology Institute, Tokyo)

Here's some pictures of the lab's day out, and it looks like Molly the Sheep was lucky enough to be invited too!

"We really enjoyed the hot spa and blowfish cuisine. Thank you for giving us such a wonderful opportunity". Dr Fumiko

Second prize: Dr Koh (Johns Hopkins University)

"We all had a great time. Thank you!!" Dr Koh

Third prize: Dr Smit-Rigter (University of Amsterdam)

As well as the basket of goodies, you can spot the Abcam pathway cards too! "Thanks a lot for all the stuff. It was delicious. Here a photo of the basket and us enjoying it". Dr. Smit-Rigter