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Awards & Funding
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Starter Culture Microgrant Program application deadline
The Starter Culture Microgrant Program funds projects that will benefit the genetics community and allows GSA to be more responsive to member needs and changing contexts. This award cycle is for projects to be held August through December 2025.June 30, 2025 -
2025 GSA Award Seminar: GSA Medal Award
In this seminar, GSA Medal Award recipient Noah Whiteman will discuss how animals and other multicellular eukaryotes have gained novel adaptations through horizontal gene transfer from viruses and prokaryotes.June 12, 2025 -
2025 GSA Award Seminar: George W. Beadle Award
In this seminar, Beadle Award recipient Suhir Kumar will highlight the inspiration behind widely used computational tools and the biological discoveries they enabled, and will explore how bridging methods and insights through data-driven approaches has advanced the understanding of species evolution and human disease.June 26, 2025 -
2025 GSA Award Seminar: Edward Novitski Prize
In this seminar, Edward Novitski Prize recipient Kevin Struhl will discuss the Recombinant DNA enabled the development of yeast molecular biology and reverse genetic analysis. Register to attend.May 29, 2025 -
2026 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science
The Vilcek Foundation will award three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise of $50,000 each to young, immigrant biomedical scientists who demonstrate outstanding early achievement.June 9, 2025 -
2025 Gruber Genetics Prize awarded to Rotem Sorek
Sorek's work has not only opened a whole new field of microbiology but has also revealed that some of these ancient bacterial defenses are the evolutionary ancestors of parts of the human immune system.May 14, 2025 -
FASEB Excellence in Science Awards nomination deadline
The prestigious awards recognize achievements by women scientists at three career stages.December 3, 2024 -
Drosophila Image Award submission deadline
This award recognizes compelling images that communicate important findings in Drosophila research.January 31, 2025 -
Drosophila Community Service Award nomination deadline
This award is given once a year to acknowledge outstanding contributions to the Drosophila community.January 17, 2025 -
GSA Undergraduate Travel Award application deadline
Undergraduate GSA members are encouraged to apply for this award, which will grant funding to attend #Dros25 or #Worm25.December 4, 2024 -
Gruber Genetics Prize nomination deadline
The Gruber Genetics Prize is presented to a leading scientist, or up to three, in recognition of groundbreaking contributions to any realm of genetics research.December 15, 2024