Articles tagged Awards & Prizes
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GSA member Houra Merrikh has been honored with the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science. Established in 2009, the award recognizes individuals born outside of the U.S. who have demonstrated outstanding early achievement and who often face significant challenges early in their career.   Houra Merrikh, PhD Assistant Professor of Microbiology University of Washington…

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is seeking nominations for the 2016 National Medal of Science, which is considered the nation’s honest honor for those who work in the physical, biological, mathematical, engineering, behavioral, and social sciences. This honor is presented annually by the President at a White House ceremony. First established by Congress in 1959, nearly…

Leonid Kruglyak (HHMI/University of California, Los Angeles) has been awarded the 2016 Edward Novitski Prize for his extraordinary level of creativity and intellectual ingenuity in the solution of significant problems in genetics research. “Dr. Leonid Kruglyak has been a pioneer in human genetics for over 15 years…. he continues to pose questions and do experiments…

Former GSA Board member Jeannie T. Lee, who also co-chairs The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC) Coordinating Committee, has been named as recipient of the 2016 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences. The award, which is bestowed by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), recognizes Lee’s work in uncovering the functions of long, noncoding RNA…

  Detlef Weigel (Max Plank Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen) has been awarded the GSA Medal for his outstanding contributions to the field of genetics in the last 15 years. “Detlef’s blend of biology, genetics, and genomics technology has been key to many advances at the intersection of modern plant developmental and evolutionary biology”, said…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…