#DROS18 GSA Poster Award winners
We are pleased to announce the GSA Poster Award winners from the 59th 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: Elizabeth Hemenway
Institution: University of Missouri-Kansas City
Poster Title: The Surprising composition of a synaptonemal polycomplex
Authors: Elizabeth Hemenway, Stacie Hughes, R. Scott Hawley
2nd Place: Emily Rivard
Institution: College of the Holy Cross
Poster Title: De novo evolved genes have essential roles in male Drosophila reproduction
Authors: Emily Rivard, E. Scott, J. Schmitz, K. Kelleher, E. Bornberg-Bauer, Geoffrey Findlay
3rd Place: Leah Anderson
Institution: The Ohio State University
Poster Title: Determining binding specificities of cell adhesion molecules from Drosophila and other related Dipterans
Authors: Leah Anderson and Mark Seeger
Graduate Students
1st Place: Erez Cohen
Institution: Duke University Medical School
Poster Title: A switch from compensatory proliferation to compensatory hypertrophy in the injured Drosophila hindgut
Authors: Erez Cohen, S. Allen, Don Fox
2nd Place: Ankita Sarkar
Institution: University of Dayton
Poster Title: Wingless, a mediator of crosstalk between Amyloid-beta 42 expressing and wild-type neurons in Alzheimer’s disease
Authors: Ankita Sarkar, J. Kofler, M. Kango-Singh, Amit Singh
3rd Place: Jackie Bubnell
Institution: Cornell University
Poster Title: Expanding functional horizons or evolutionary combat? Evaluating drivers of the rapid evolution of bag of marbles in Drosophila.
Authors: Jackie Bubnell and Chip Aquadro