#DROS17 GSA Poster Award winners
We are pleased to announce the GSA Poster Award winners from the 58th Annual Drosophila Research Conference! Undergraduate and graduate student members of the GSA were eligible for the awards, and a hard-working team of postdocs volunteered their time as judges. Congratulations to all!
Undergraduate Students
1st Place: Cezary Mikoluk
Institution: Penn State Berks
Poster title: The regulation of lipid storage by tra and tra2 in Drosophila
Authors: Cezary Mikoluk, Alexis Nagengast, and Justin DiAngelo
2nd Place: P. Tram Bui
Institution: Claremont McKenna College
Poster title: Chd1 as a modifier of position effect variegation
Authors: P. Tram Bui, Lakshmi Bugga, and Jennifer Armstrong
3rd Place: Kalyn Gackowski
Institution: Marquette University
Poster title: Identification of Lipid-Processing Genes Required for Eggshell Formation in Drosophila
Authors: Kalyn Gackowski and Edward M Blumenthal
Graduate Students
1st Place: Dong-Yuan Chen
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Poster title: Developing M-TRAIL: A tool to track cell migration in vivo
Authors: Dong-Yuan Chen and David Bilder
2nd Place: Tammara Beeghly
Institution: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Poster title: Trade-offs between fecundity and survival in starvation-selected fly populations
Authors: Tammara Beeghly, Allen Gibbs, Timothy Saitta, and Laurel Raftery
3rd Place: Jessica Douthit
Institution: New York University School of Medicine
Poster title: A novel role for Plexin A in photoreceptor axon guidance
Authors: Jessica Douthit, Sergio Astigarraga, Gina Lee, and Jessica Treisman