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TAGC Keynote Speaker Snapshot: Cassandra Extavour
Get to know the TAGC 2020 Keynote Speakers through our interview series. Cassandra Extavour obtained an Honors BSc at the University of Toronto with a specialist in Molecular Genetics and Molecular Biology. She obtained her PhD with Antonio Garcia Bellido at the Severo Ochoa Center for Molecular Biology at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She…
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GSA awards 2020 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal to Gerald Fink and David Botstein
For more than 50 years, Gerald Fink of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and David Botstein of Calico Life Sciences have made unique, and sometimes intersecting, contributions to genetics. Together they taught an advanced genetics course at MIT for more than a decade; they’ve co-authored a series of perspective papers and patents. Each has mentored dozens…
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TAGC Keynote Speaker Snapshot: Jon Lorsch
Get to know the TAGC 2020 Keynote Speakers through our interview series. Jon R. Lorsch is the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). In this position, Lorsch oversees the Institute’s $2.9 billion budget, which supports basic research that increases understanding of biological processes and lays the foundation for advances in disease…
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Grants & Funding
Congratulations to the Spring 2020 DeLill Nasser Awardees!
GSA is pleased to announce the recipients of the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics for Spring 2020! Given twice a year to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, DeLill Nasser Awards support attendance at meetings and laboratory courses. The Committee received a large number of applications this cycle and was very impressed by all. The award is…