Awards & Funding

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The prestigious awards recognize achievements by women scientists at three career stages.

This award recognizes compelling images that communicate important findings in Drosophila research.

This award is given once a year to acknowledge outstanding contributions to the Drosophila community.

Undergraduate GSA members are encouraged to apply for this award, which will grant funding to attend #Dros25 or #Worm25.

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.