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Awards
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Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture
The Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture was established in 1988 by the colleagues, friends and students of Dr. Larry Sandler
after his untimely death in February 1987. The award serves to honor Dr. Sandler for his many contributions to Drosophila
genetics and his exceptional dedication to the training of Drosophila biologists. Any student completing his Ph.D. in an area
of Drosophila research in the calendar year preceding the annual Drosophila Research Conference is eligible and may be
nominated by his/her dissertation advisor. The Selection Committee for 2012 includes Chair, Richard Mann, and committee
members Michael Eisen, Ken Irvine and Leslie Vosshall. The Committee reviews nominations, reads the dissertations of the
finalists, and selects the awardee.
Past recipients of this honor are:
Bruce Edgar, 1988
Kate Harding, 1989
Michael Dickinson, 1990
Maurice Kernan, 1991
Doug Kellogg, 1992
David Schneider, 1993
Kendal Broadie, 1994
David Begun, 1995
Chaoyong Ma, 1996
Abby Dernburg, 1997
Nir Hacohen, 1998
Terence Murphy, 1999
Bin Chen, 2000
James Wilhelm, 2001
Matthew C. Gibson, 2002
Sinisa Urban, 2003
Sean McGuire, 2004
Elissa Hallem, 2005
Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos, 2006
Yu-Chiun Wang, 2007
Adam A. L. Friedman, 2008
Timothy Weil, 2009
Leonardo Barbosa Koerich, 2010
The Victoria Finnerty Memorial Fund for Undergraduate Travel Award
This fund, which honors the memory of Victoria Finnerty, has been established to support travel costs for undergraduates
engaged in research to attend the Annual Drosophila Research Conference. Vickie, who died in February 2011, was a long-
time member of the Genetics Society of America and served the Drosophila community and the Genetics community at large
in many capacities.
A wonderful geneticist, Vickie’s ground-breaking work as a graduate student used high resolution recombination analysis to
dissect gene structure. This set the stage for a 35 year career in which she excelled as a gifted teacher as well as research
scientist.
Congratulations to this year’s winners:
Selma Avdagic
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Samantha Galindo
University of Wisconsin Madison
Kenneth Hoehn
Duke University
Emily Hsieh
University of Washington, Seattle
Jacqueline McDermott
Hofstra University
Mohammad Siddiq
Indiana University, Bloomington
To make a tax deductible contribution, send your check to the attention of Adam Fagen, Executive Director, The Genetics
Society of America, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3998. Please write “Finnerty Fund” in the memo portion of
the check. Or you can make an online donation by visiting www.genetics-gsa.org.