Newswise — The Genetics Society of America is pleased to announce 10 recipients of the 2011 DeLill Nasser Awards for Professional Development in Genetics. Each of these young geneticists will receive $1,000 toward travel to attend national and international meetings or enroll in laboratory courses that will enhance their careers.
These awards are named in honor of DeLill Nasser (1929-2000), who was instrumental in promoting genetics research, championing the genome sequencing of Arabidopsis and research in Drosophila during her 22 years as a program director with the National Science Foundation. She was particularly supportive of young scientists, those at the beginning of their careers, and those trying to open new areas of genetic inquiry.
The 10 recipients of the 2011 DeLill Nasser Awards are:
• Nicolas Buchon, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Switzerland, who will attend the 52nd Drosophila Research Conference, San Diego, CA, March 30-April 3, 2011• Xu Chen, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, who will attend the 52nd Drosophila Research Conference.• Heather Flores, Cornell Univ, who will attend the 52nd Drosophila Research Conference.• Daniel P. Kane, Tufts Univ, who will attend the Keystone Conference: DNA Replication and Recombination, Keystone, CO, February 27-March 4, 2011.• Yunsik Kang, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, who will attend the 52nd Drosophila Research Conference.• Mia T. Levine, Fred Hutchinson Can Res Ctr, who will attend the International Conference on Drosophila Heterochromatin, Gubbio, Italy, June 12-18, 2011.• Teresa R. O’Meara, Duke Univ, who will attend the 26th Fungal Genetics Conference, Pacific Grove, CA, March 15-20, 2011.• Alexandra A. Soukup, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, who will attend the 26th Fungal Genetics Conference.• Chaolong Wang, Univ of Michigan, who will attend the 12th International Congress of Human Genetics, Montreal, Canada, October 11-15, 2011.• Cornelia E. Zorca, Yale Univ, who will attend the EMBO Conference: Nuclear Structure and Dynamics, L’Isle sur la Sorge, France, September 28-October 2, 2011.
The DeLill Nasser Awards for Professional Development are given twice a year to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to attend a meeting, conference or laboratory course that will forward their career. Applications are being accepted until March 15, 2011 at the GSA website, http://www.genetics-gsa.org/pages/delill.shtml for $1,000 travel grants for meetings, conferences or lab courses taking place during the latter half of 2011.
ABOUT THE GENETICS SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Founded in 1931, the Genetics Society of America (GSA) is the professional membership organization for geneticists and science educators. Its more than 4,000 members work to advance knowledge in the basic mechanisms of inheritance, from the molecular to the population level. The GSA is dedicated to promoting research in genetics and to facilitating communication among geneticists worldwide through the Genetics Society of America Conferences including the biennial conference on Model Organisms to Human Biology, an interdisciplinary meeting on current and cutting edge topics in genetics research, as well as annual and biennial meetings that focus on the genetics of particular organisms. GSA publishes GENETICS, the leading journal in the field. For more information about GSA, please visit www.genetics-gsa.org.
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