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News & Events
Items of interest curated by GSA for the genetics community.
News
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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
Events
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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 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