Nine Young Scientists Awarded by the Genetics Society of America for Research Presented at Fruit Fly Conference

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Newswise BETHESDA, MD (May 20, 2014) -- The Genetics Society of America (GSA) and the Drosophila research community are pleased to announce the winners of GSA Poster Awards at the 55th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, which took place in San Diego, March 2630, 2014. These awards were made to undergraduate, graduate student, and postdoctoral researchers in recognition of the work they presented at the conference. Their projects, using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism, spanned a diverse range of topics on the genetic and molecular basis of fundamental biological processes.

"We were very impressed with both the quality of the research and the clarity of presentation by the winning candidates," noted Adam P. Fagen, PhD, GSA's Executive Director. "It is gratifying to see such inspiring work by members of our community so early in their careers. We look forward to hearing much more about their contributions in the years to come."

The recipients were chosen from 789 posters presented at the meeting, 561 of which were authored by GSA members and therefore eligible for an award.

2014 Drosophila Research Conference Poster Award Winners (for the full release including photos, please see http://www.genetics-gsa.org/media/releases/GSA_PR_20140520_Dros_poster_awards.pdf)

Postdoctoral Winners

FIRST PRIZE: Melanie I. Worley, University of California, Berkeley, USA Poster Title: "Chameleon: a mutant with an increased frequency of notum-to-wing transdetermination" Principal Investigator: Iswar K. Hariharan

SECOND PRIZE: Malini Natarajan, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, USA Poster Title: "Genome-wide analysis of tissue-specific effector genes in the Drosophila embryo" Principal Investigator: Julia Zeitlinger

THIRD PRIZE: Naoki Okamoto, RIKEN, Center for Developmental Biology (CDB), Kobe, Japan Poster Title: "Regulatory mechanism of the nutrient-dependent expression of Drosophila insulin-like peptide gene" Principal Investigator: Takashi Nishimura

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Nine Young Scientists Awarded by the Genetics Society of America for Research Presented at Fruit Fly Conference