#Dros22 GSA Poster Award winners
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.”