Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists 2011, Volume 1260

For 200 years—since 1817—the Academy has brought together extraordinary people working at the frontiers of discovery. Among the oldest scientific organizations in the United States, it has become not only an enduring cultural institution in New York, but also one of the most significant organizations in the global scientific community.

• A crosstalk between bone and gonads / Franck Oury Calabi-Yau manifolds and their degenerations / Valentino TosattiEmerging topics in epigenetics : ants, brains, and noncoding RNAs / Roberto BonasioLighting up the brain's reward circuitry / Mary Kay LoboSearching for new physics at the frontiers with lattice quantum chromodynamics / Ruth S. Van de WaterQuo vadis, data privacy? / Johannes GehrkeExploring the birth and death of black holes and other creatures / Szabolcs MárkaHarnessing the world's biodiversity data : promise and peril in ecological niche modeling of species distributions / Robert P. AndersonProtein function and allostery : a dynamic relationship / Charalampos G. KalodimosPlate tectonics and planetary habitability : current status and future challenges / Jun KorenagaAccurate evaluation and analysis of functional genomics data and methods / Casey S. Greene and Olga G. TroyanskayaMolecular dispersion spectroscopy : new capabilities in laser chemical sensing / Michal Nikodem and Gerard Wysocki