Daniel Ryan has scored one of the 2005 ASBMB Fellowships, designed to allow PhD students to travel to an international conference of their choosing. Competition for these awards is fierce every year, so it is a great achievement for him to have won one of these. He is using the prize to attend the Protein Society meeting in Barcelona this year – and i am sure he won’t be spending any of his trip lying on the Costa del Sol – it will all be working hard at the meeting…