Previous Winners of Student Poster Awards: Drosophila

Society Awards

Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal

Genetics Society of America Medal

George W. Beadle Award

Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education

The Novitski Prize

The Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award

Trainee Awards

Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Awards

The GSA Undergraduate Travel Awards

DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics

Trainee Poster Awards

Drosophila Award Recipients


2018	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Elizabeth Hemenway, University of Missouri-Kansas City	Emily Rivard, College of the Holy Cross	Leah Anderson, The Ohio State University
Grad Students:	Erez Cohen, Duke University Medical School	Ankita Sarkar, University of Dayton	Jackie Bubnell, Cornell University

2017	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Cezary Mikoluk, Penn State Berks	P. Tram Bui, Claremont McKenna College	Kalyn Gackowski, Marquette University
Grad Students:	Dong-Yuan Chen, University of California, Berkeley	Tammara Beeghly, University of Nevada, Las Vegas	Jessica Douthit, New York University School of Medicine

2016	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Niahz Wince, Pennsylvania State University, Berks College	Phuong Nguyen, Drexel University
Grad Students:	Daniel Kelpsch, University of Iowa	Afsoon Saadin, University of Maryland Baltimore County	Sumaira Zamurrad, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Postdocs:

2015	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Jonathan Cohen Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA	Ashley Kline Butler University, Indianapolis, IN	Irina Pushel Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Grad Students:	George Aranjuez Cleveland Clinic Foundation & Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH	Kathleen Cunningham Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD	Katharine Schulz University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Postdocs:	Leila Rieder Brown University, Providence, RI	Justin Cassidy Northwestern University, Evanston, IL	Sandra Zimmerman University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2014	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Kurtresha Worden, University of Nevada, Reno, NV.	Dallas Criscoe, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.	Robert J. Yamulla, Franklin and Marshall College, Sugarloaf, PA.
Grad Students:	Maureen Cetera, University of Chicago, IL.	Gavin R. Rice, University of California, Davis, CA.	Sarah Neuman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Postdocs:	Melanie I. Worley, University of California, Berkeley, CA.	Malini Natarajan, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO.	Naoki Okamoto,RIKEN/CDB, Kobe, Japan

2013	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Emily J. Simon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC.	Susanna E. Brantley, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.	Marvin Nayan, University of Washington, Eugene, OR.
Grad Students:	Jermaine Ross, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.	Rebecca A. Somer, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT.	Balint C. Kacsoh, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Postdocs:	Miriam Osterfield, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.	Pam Vanderzalm, University of Chicago, IL.	Bahar H. Sahin, Bogazici Universitesei, Istanbul, Turkey.

2012	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Katheryn Landy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.	Balint Z. Kacsoh, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.	Mickey Buckingham, University of Oxford, UK.
Grad Students:	Jimok Yoon, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.	Qing Shih, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.	Julie Tan, University of Toronto, Ontario, CA.
Postdocs:	Young-Jun Kim, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD.	Maria Teresa Abreu-Blanco, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.	Rebecca Fox, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

2011	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Sonia M. Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KA	Cameron Berry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Grad Students:	Yoosik Kim, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ	Imke Schmidt, University of Munster, Germany	Grace Y. Lee, UC-Davis, Davis, CA
Postdocs:	Sean M. Buchanan, The Rosalind Institute, Harvard University, MA	Valerie Hilgers, UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA	Ines Ribeiro, UC- San Diego, San Diego, CA

2010	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Cloyce E. Nelson, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque	Cassandra Amesoli New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces	Alexander M. Tseng Univ of Washington, Seattle
Grad Students:	W. Ryan Williamson, Dong Wang, Univ of Texas Southwestern Med Ctr, Dallas	Vafa Bayat Baylor College of Med, Houston, TX	Andrew D. Skora Carnegie Institution of Science, Baltimore, MD
Postdocs:	Jeremiah J. Zartman, Princeton Univ, NJ	Hiroshi Ishimoto Univ of Iowa, Iowa City	Jianhua Huang Univ of Maryland, College Park

2009	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Students:	Frederick Ling, Yale University, New Haven, Ct	C. Nien, New York University, New York, New York	Mathew Logan Johnson, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Postdocs:	Stefan L. Ameres, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA	Elena Lucchetta, The University of Chicago, Illinois	Kevin Legent, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York

2008	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Students:	Holly A. Morrison, University of California, Berkeley	Johnnie Chau, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio	Tammy Chan, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Postdocs:	Radmila Capkova-Frydrychova, NIEHS/NIH LMG, Research Triangle Park, NC	John M. Olson, University of California, Los Angeles	Ana Talamillo, CIC bioGUNE, Bizkaia, Spain

2007	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Students:	Andres Dekanty, Fundacíon Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Lei Bai, Yale University, New Haven, CT	Abbie Casper, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Postdocs:	Attilio Pane, Princeton University, NJ	Manos Mavrakis, NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, MD	Nir Yakoby, Princeton University, NJ

2006	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
	Hillary K. Andrews, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX	Zhe Han, University of Texas SW Medical Center, Dallas, TX	Andrea Hutterer, Institute of Molecular Biology, Vienna, Austria

2005	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
	Vitor J. Barbosa, Developmental Genetics, NYU, Skirball Institute, New York, NY	Trent P. Munro, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK	Verena Koelsch, University of Cologne, Institute for Genetics, Cologne, Germany

2004	Outstanding Platform Presentations	Outstanding Poster Presentation	Honorable Mention
	Hyung D. Ryoo, The Rockefeller University	Hirotaka Kanuka, Stanford University School of Medicine	Lazaro Centanin, Instituto Leloir Yoshiko Inoue, Riken-Kobe Andrew Haigh, Dalhousie University