Articles tagged Awards & Prizes
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GSA announces a new funding opportunity for members.  In the ever-evolving landscape of scientific research, access to funding is often a significant hurdle for scientists and researchers. Recognizing our membership’s potential to create change and the need for funding, GSA has developed a new initiative: the Starter Culture Microgrant Program. Use funds to design your…

Peer reviewers are vital to science, but early career scientists in our field rarely receive formal training in how to be a good reviewer. GSA and GENETICS are addressing this gap with a program that gives early career members real-world peer review experience. Participants will receive online training and advice from GENETICS editors as they…

Peer reviewers are vital to science, but early career scientists in our field rarely receive formal training in how to be a good reviewer. GSA and GENETICS are addressing this gap with a program that gives early career GSA members real-world peer review experience. Participants will receive online training and advice from GENETICS editors as…

We are pleased to announce the GSA Poster Award winners from the 64th 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: Sofia Karter Lopez, University of Toronto “Rab11 mediates E-cadherin recycling during…

GSA is pleased to announce the recipients of the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics for Fall 2022! Given twice a year to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, DeLill Nasser Awards support attendance at meetings and laboratory courses. The award is named in honor of DeLill Nasser, a long-time GSA supporter and National Science Foundation…

The Awards Audit Task Force describes their findings and outlines the future of the GSA Awards.

Three new editors are joining GSA journals, GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. We’re excited to welcome Arash Bashirullah, Noah Whiteman, and Yun Li to their roles as Senior Advisory Editor for GENETICS, Genome Report Senior Editor for G3, and Associate Editor for GENETICS, respectively. Arash Bashirullah Senior Advisory Editor, GENETICS Dr. Arash Bashirullah is a Professor…

Congratulations to all the winners of poster awards at the Yeast Genetics Meeting 2022! Undergraduate  Austin Lytle, Morehead State University Poster Title: Genetically engineering a strain of S. cerevisiae with a single circular chromosome “Using our experimental approach, I successfully circularized Ch. II in S. ceraviseae and current analysis shows no phenotypic differences between the…

We are pleased to announce the GSA Poster Award winners from the 31st Fungal Genetics Conference! Congratulations to all! Jorge Lightfoot, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center   Fungal hypoxia adaptation is critical for the establishment of keratitis vayu maini rekdal, UC Berkeley CRISPR-Cas9 engineering of A. oryzae for meat-like flavor and appearance Amber Matha,…

Ever since Charles Darwin proposed the idea of natural selection in 1858, biologists have been pondering exactly how selection works, somehow driving the evolution from single-celled life to the wide array of complex vertebrates that now populate the planet. As advances in technology have enabled genomic mapping at increasingly finer resolution, the questions have only…

Harmit Malik loves conflict—genetic conflict, that is. “I’m really interested in this idea that components of the same genome, or components of different genomes, are constantly doing battle with each other,” says Malik, who heads a lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. To understand genetic conflict, Malik focuses on the parts of the…