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Articles tagged Awards & Prizes
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Susan Celniker recognized with 2016 George W. Beadle Award
Susan E. “Sue” Celniker (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) has been awarded the Society’s George W. Beadle Award for her outstanding contributions to the Drosophila community. “Sue is leading several efforts that are producing tools to facilitate studies of the genome, and is applying these tools to a myriad of functional studies. It is difficult to…
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Early-career scientists receive DeLill Nasser Spring 2016 award
GSA is pleased to announce the recipients of the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics for Spring 2016. The award is given twice a year to graduate students and postdoctoral trainees to support the costs of attending national and international meetings and enroll in laboratory courses. It also provides young geneticists the opportunity to…
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GSA member Kathryn Anderson honored by SDB
Longtime GSA member Kathryn V. Anderson has been honored by the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) with its Edwin G. Conklin Medal in recognition of “her extraordinary and sustained research contributions to the field of developmental biology and mentoring of the next generation of scientists.” Kathryn V. Anderson, PhD Chair, Developmental Biology Program, and Member…
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Bill Wood honored with 2016 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education
The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce that William “Bill” Wood (University of Colorado Boulder) has been awarded the Society’s Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education in recognition of his significant and sustained impact in genetics education. “Dr. Wood is one of the pioneers in the reform of science teaching. He…
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Nancy Kleckner awarded 2016 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal
Nancy Kleckner, PhD (Harvard University), has been awarded the Society’s Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal for lifetime achievement in the field of genetics. The award recognizes Dr. Kleckner’s many significant contributions to our understanding of chromosomes and the mechanisms of inheritance. “Nancy has made major contributions both to understanding how chromosomes work and to developing transformative methodology that…
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Former GSA Treasurer Trudy Mackay wins Wolf Prize
Former GSA Treasurer Trudy Mackay has been honored with the 2016 Wolf Prize in Agriculture. Bestowed by Israel’s Wolf Foundation, the prize is sometimes considered to be “the Nobel Prize in Agriculture.” Trudy F.C. Mackay, PhD William Neal Reynolds Distinguished University Professor of Biological Sciences and Associate Member of Entomology North Carolina State University…
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G3 Editor-in-Chief named to Order of Canada
Brenda Andrews, Editor-in-Chief of the GSA journal G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, has been named Companion to the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honors. Established in 1967 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, selection to the Order recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community, and service to the nation. Companion to the Order of Canada is…
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GSA presidents named as National Academy of Inventors Fellows
Current GSA President Jasper Rine and former GSA President H. Robert Horvitz have been named to the 2015 class of Fellows by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). According to the NAI press release, “election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of…
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GSA members elected as 2015 AAAS Fellows
Congratulations to the eight GSA members who have been elected as AAAS Fellows in recognition of their contributions to innovation, education, and scientific leadership: Julie A. Brill, PhD (Section on Biological Sciences) Senior Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children; and Professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto G3 Associate Editor, 2011–2014 …
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GSA members submit winning entries in FASEB BioArt competition
GSA members are well represented among the winners of FASEB’s fourth annual BioArt competition: 4 of the 11 winning images were submitting by our members. The BioArt competition seeks to share the beauty and excitement of biological research with the public by featuring captivating images and illustrations that represent cutting-edge life science research. All winning…
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Call for nominations for 2016 Gruber Prizes
The Gruber Foundation has issued a call for nominations for its 2016 Gruber International Prize Program, honoring leaders in Genetics, Cosmology, and Neuroscience. Each prize, which is accompanied by a $500,000 unrestricted monetary award, is designed both to recognize groundbreaking work in each field and to inspire additional efforts that affect fundamental shifts in knowledge and…