Each year, GSA recognizes outstanding student research at the Yeast Genetics Meeting, honoring exceptional presentations by undergraduate and graduate student members. Award recipients are selected based on both the scientific merit of their research and the clarity of their presentation. Please join us in congratulating this year’s awardees.

Nasima Akhter
University of Rochester

I study the molecular mechanisms behind species-specific thermotolerance evolution in Saccharomyces yeasts, from single genes to proteome-wide changes.


Leah Anderson
University of Washington

I conduct experimental evolution in yeast in partnership with high school classrooms to uncover mechanisms of antifungal resistance while also providing hands-on learning about evolutionary biology.


Emma Bocquillon
University of Pittsburgh

Distinct glycolytic inhibitors converge on α-arrestin-dependent glucose transporter endocytosis, revealing a conserved mechanism of metabolic stress adaptation and drug resistance that may inform the design of more effective anti-cancer combination therapies.


Via Lawson
Colorado State University

My project is to part of our lab’s broad effort to understand how complex chromosomal mutations form, by characterizing the cellular and environmental factors that trigger rearrangement of genome’s structure.


Alexa MacKersie
Hope College

The Beckwith Lab is currently investigating the “molecular grammar” of a prion-like domain in the Ty1 retrotransposon of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.


Onyinyechi Onuoha
SUNY Upstate Medical University

My research seeks to understand how eukaryotic RNA polymerases I and III assemble.

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