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Congratulations to the Worm 2025 GSA Poster Award Recipients
We are pleased to announce the GSA Poster Award recipients from the 25th International Worm Meeting! Undergraduate and graduate student GSA members were eligible for these awards, and a hard-working team of judges made the determinations. Congratulations to all! Kehinde Joan Abayomi, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory Category: Gene Regulation & Genomics Poster title: “Transcriptome…
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