#Dros21 GSA Poster Award winners
We are pleased to announce the GSA Poster Award winners from the 62nd 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: Umayr R. Shaikh
Institution: Butler University
Poster Title: “Exploring size scaling relationships in the developing Drosophila egg chamber”

2nd Place: Sarah Sims
Institution: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Poster Title: “Consequences of the Loss of Multiple HP1 Proteins in Drosophila melanogaster“
3rd Place: Abigail Wukitch
Institution: Bucknell University
Poster Title: “The limits of chronic infection induced protection during secondary infection in Drosophila melanogaster“
Graduate Students

1st Place: Mehrnaz Afkhami مهرناز افخمی
Institution: University of Oklahoma
Poster Title: “The genetic and neuronal bases of a coevolved reproductive trait in female Drosophila“

2nd Place: Alexander J. Barron
Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Poster Title: “Drosophila gut bacteria regulate the growth of invasive microbes both in culture and in the host gut environment”

3rd Place: Jullien Flynn
Institution: Cornell University
Poster Title: “Multiple sex chromosome-autosome fusions associated with high satellite DNA content in Drosophila virilis“