We are pleased to announce the GSA Poster Award winners from the 63rd 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: Abby Matt, Washington University in St. Louis
“Graphene Enabled Optical Control of Drosophila.”
2nd Place: Grace Woods, Lewis and Clark College
“The role of Thrombospondin in development and function of the Drosophila melanogaster neuromuscular junction.”
3rd Place: Jennifer McIntyre, University of California, Irvine
“Environmental Effects on the Epigenetic Silencing of Transposable Elements.”
Graduate Students
1st Place: Aarya Vaikakkara Chithram, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
“Developmental axon guidance cues are critical for adult neuronal survival.”
2nd Place: Maren Janz, University of Osnabrück
“Endosomal maturation in Drosophila nephrocytes depends on a trimeric Rab7 GEF complex.”
3rd Place: Menglin Li, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Rhodopsin 3 regulates circadian periodicity.”
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