Thanking our donors

GSA is thankful for the more than 400 charitable contributions made to the Society over the past 15 months—a total of more than $40,000!

Your donations enable GSA to support educational programs, advocacy, and media and public outreach activities that promote our field and the next generation of geneticists.

You can support the Society by making a gift online or sending a check to GSA, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814.

GSA is a nonprofit charitable organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service Code. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. No goods or services are provided in exchange for your donation.

 

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Donations made to GSA October 1, 2014 – December 31, 2015

GSA General Fund

The GSA General Fund provides support wherever it’s needed most, including for the Society’s education, career development, and advocacy activities. (Donate now)

President’s Circle ($1,000+)

• Jasper D. Rine, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Advocates ($500–$999)

• Anonymous (1)
• Jay C. Dunlap, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
• Adam Fagen, Genetics Society of America, Bethesda, MD
• Stan Fields, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Joseph G. Gall, Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, MD
• Ralph Hillman, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
• Mark Johnston, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, Denver, CO
• Douglas E. Koshland, University of California, Berkeley, CA
• Jennifer J. Loros, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
• Stefan Taubert, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Promoters ($250–$499)

• Anonymous (11)
• Andrew Chisholm, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
• Thomas W. Cline and Barbara J. Meyer, University of California, Berkeley, CA
• Trisha N. Davis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Susan A. Gerbi, Brown University, Providence, RI
• James E. Haber, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
• Erik A. Lundquist, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
• John R. Pringle, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
• Hong Yu, Rainbow Transgenic Flies, Inc., Camarillo, CA

Boosters ($100–$249)

• Anonymous (28)
• Flora Banuett, California State University, Long Beach, CA
• Jeffrey M. Becker, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
• Judith G. Berman, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
• Helmut Bertrand, Gregory, MI
• Lynn Cooley, Yale University, New Haven, CT
• Dean S. Dawson, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
• Rob E. and Mardi Dennell, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS – In memory of Bill Gelbart
• William F. Dove, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
• Daniel F. Eberl, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
• JoAnne Engebrecht, University of California, Davis, CA
• Janan T. Eppig, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
• David J. Garfinkel, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
• David Greenstein, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• Marc S. Halfon, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY
• David H. Hall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
• Ann Hammonds, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
• Michael Hampsey, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ
• Tulle Hazelrigg, Columbia University, New York, NY
• Robert K. Herman, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• Walter E. Hill, Seattle, WA
• Jonathan Hodgkin, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• Scott G. Holmes, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
• Saul M. Honigberg, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
• Kenneth Irvine, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
• Sue Jinks-Robertson, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
• J.L. Kermicle, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
• Edward A. Kravitz, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
• Margaret Lieb, South Pasadena, CA
• Dan L. Lindsley, University of California, La Jolla, CA
• Miriam Meisler, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Corinne A. Michels, Manhasset, NY
• Beth A. Monteleone, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
• Walter E. Nance, Sewanne, TN
• Carol S. Newlon, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
• Berl R. Oakley, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
• Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
• Annette L. Parks, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
• Sally G. Pasion, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
• Thomas D. Petes, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
• Laurel A. Raftery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
• Frank J. Ratty, El Cajon, CA
• Patrick F. Reilly, Princeton, NJ
• James H. Roberds, Harrison Experimental Forest, Saucier, MS
• Gertrud Schüpbach, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
• Barry Scott, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
• Millard Susman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
• Kelly Tatchell, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA
• Robin L. Wright, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
• Charles Yanofsky, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Supporters ($1–$99)

• Anonymous (95)
• Yasir Ahmed, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
• Jack Bennett, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
• Jordan L. Berry, San Francisco, CA
• T.K. Blackwell, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA
• David A. Brow, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
• Thomas M. Brown, GeneCTAr Com LLC, Whitefish, MT
• Richard Robert Chapleau, III, US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH
• Albert T. Chen, Ann Arbor, MI
• Peter T. Cherbas, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
• Todd A. Ciche, Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, MO
• Gregory P. Copenhaver, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
• Dirk Jan de Koning, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
• Emily K. Delaney, University of California, Davis, CA
• Susan M. Dibartolomeis, Millersville University, Millersville, PA
• Winifred W. Doane, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
• Benjamin A. Eaton, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
• John Ewer, Universidad de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile
• Horacio M. Frydman, Boston University, Boston, MA
• Guri Giaever, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• David D. Hansen, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
• Gary R. Hime, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
• George R. Hoffman, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
• Robert A. Holmgren, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
• Joel A. Huberman, Peterborough, NH
• Roger W. Innes, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
• Caramai N. Kamei, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA
• Rebecca S. Lamb, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• Paul A. Lefebvre, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
• Leslie A. Lewis, York College, City University of New York, Commack, NY
• Kirill S. Lobachev, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
• Eleanor M. Maine, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
• Orlando J. Miller, Lansdowne, VA
• Jack Neil Morse, Austin, TX
• Yuanwang Pan, Waksman Institute Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ
• Virginia Papaioannou, Columbia University, New York, NY
• Eric M. Phizicky, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
• Craig S. Pikaard, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
• John Plenefisch, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
• Hope H. Punnett, Philadelphia, PA
• Christine Queitsch, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Alexander S. Raikhel, University of California, Riverside, CA
• Maurice H. Rosenstraus, Somerset, NJ
• John Joseph Rossi, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, CA
• Wayne W. Schubert, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
• Jane S. Schultz, Riverside, CA
• Carolyn D. Silflow, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
• Albert W. Spencer, Durango, CO
• Gerald Wilkinson, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
• Ulrike Wintersberger, Wien, Austria
• William B. Wood, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
• Judith L. Yanowitz, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
• Kelvin Yen, Los Angeles, CA

 

GSA DeLill Nasser Fund for Career Development

Supports GSA’s DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics, which enables graduate students and postdoctoral trainees to attend national and international meetings or enroll in laboratory courses. (Donate now)

President’s Circle ($1,000+)

• Amar Klar, National Cancer Institute Frederick, MD

Advocates ($500–999)

• Edward Coe, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Promoters ($250–$499)

• Anonymous (1)
• C.R. McClung, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
• Davis Peltz, New York, NY – In honor of Rodney Rothstein
• James W. Truman, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA
• Jonathan R. Warner, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Boosters ($100–$249)

• Anonymous (6)
• Judith G. Berman, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
• Bonita J. Brewer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Laura Buttitta, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Martin Chalfie, Columbia University, New York, NY
• Brendan P. Cormack, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
• Bruce A. Edgar,  DKFZ and ZMBH, Heidelberg, Germany
• Janan T. Eppig, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
• Margaret T. Fuller, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
• Marian R. Goldsmith, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
• William Ja, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL
• Rob Jackson, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
• Judith A. Jaehning, Boulder, CO
• Anita S. Klein, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
• Charles D. Laird, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Joshua C. Mell, Philadelphia, PA
• Virginia E. Papaioannou, Columbia University, New York, NY
• Rodney J. Rothstein, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
• Ann E. Rougvie, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• Barbara B. Sears, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
• David R. Smyth, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
• Lorraine Symington, Columbia University, New York, NY
• Fred Winston and Karen Sauer, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Supporters ($1–$99)

• Anonymous (13)
• Kangzhen Dong, Bath, United Kingdom
• Kathleen J. Dumas, Buck Institute for Aging Research, Novato, CA
• Jadwiga M. Giebultowicz, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
• Barbara B. Knowles, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
• Julin N. Maloof, University of California, Davis, CA
• Ngoc Thi Pham, University of Texas at Arlington, TX

 

GSA Undergraduate Travel Award Fund

Supports GSA Undergraduate Travel Awards, which enables undergraduate members of the Society to present their research at GSA conferences. (Donate now)

Promoters ($250–$499)

• Bernadette C. Holdener, Stony Book University, Stony Brook, NY

Boosters ($100–$249)

• Anonymous (2)
• William F. Dove, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
• John P. Gergen, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
• Andrew J. Kreuz, Denver, CO
• Hoi S. Kwan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China
• Corinne Michels, Manhasset, NY – In memory of Fred Sherman
• Leilani M. Miller, Santa Clark University, Santa Clara, CA
• Jeanne Romero-Severson, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
• Fred Winston and Karen Sauer, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Supporters ($1–$99)

• Anonymous (14)
• Nicole Bournias-Vardiabasis, California State University, San Bernadino, CA
• Raven Symone Conyers, Pullman, WA
• Andrew A. Dewees, Huntsville, TX
• Samuel Keenan, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
• Mary Kimble, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
• Sandra M. Leal, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
• Michael C. Mahaney, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX
• Michelle A. Mondox, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
• Beth A. Montelone, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
• Melvin S. Thomson, Racine, WI
• Jennifer L. Watts, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
• Bruce Wightman, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA

 

Chi-Bin Chien Award Fund

Supports the Chi-Bin Chien Award, given to an outstanding graduate student, postdoctoral trainee, or recently appointed faculty member for contributions to the field of zebrafish research. (Donate now)

Boosters ($100–$249)

• Anonymous (2)
• Bruce Draper, University of California, Davis, CA
• Cecilia B. Moens, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

Supporters ($1–$99)

• Anonymous (1)
• Edward Blumenthal, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
• Scott Dougan, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

 

James F. Crow Early Career Researcher Award Fund

Supports the James F. Crow Early Career Researcher Award, which honors a GSA member student or recent PhD in population, evolutionary, or quantitative genetics research. (Donate now)

President’s Circle ($1,000+)

• Lauren McIntyre and Wilfred Vermerris, Gainesville, FL

 

 

Victoria Finnerty Memorial Fund for Undergraduate Travel Awards

Supports the Victoria Finnerty Award, which provides funding for undergraduates to present their research at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference. (Donate now)

Advocates ($500–$999)

• Anonymous (1)

Boosters ($100–$249)

• Anonymous (2)
• Laura A. Buttitta, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Shelagh D. Campbell, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
• Kathy Matthews, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN – In memory of Bill Gelbart

Supporters ($1–$99)

• Anonymous (7)
• Mary Kimble, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
• Ji-Long Liu, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• Therese A. Markow, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
• Stephen W. Schaeffer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
• Laura R. Serbus, Florida International University, Miami, FL
• Norma Velazquez Ulloa, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
• Mark D. Garfinkel, Birmingham, AL
• Philip T. Barnes, Connecticut College, New London, CT

 

Institutions are for identification only.