AWARDS
Award winners for 2005 IMGC
The Secretariat and members of The International Mammalian Genome Society are proud of the students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty who present oral and poster presentations at the annual meeting. The outstanding contributions of these young scientists are recognized through several awards.
The first of these awards is the Verne Chapman Young Scientist Award, which is given to the most outstanding oral presentation from a postdoctoral fellow or student. This is a monetary award of $500 that reflects Dr. Chapman's dedication to mentoring junior scientists. Verne Chapman Young Scientist Award went to Pamela Tran (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA).
A large group of publishing companies sponsored this year's presentation prizes. genesis gave a $300 cash award for an outstanding oral presentation. This prize went to Isabelle Aubin (Pasteur Institut, Paris, France). The remainder of the sponsors donated a one year subscription to their journal. They are given to the most outstanding poster presentations by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and are chosen by members of the IMGS Secretariat during the course of the meeting.
2005 Awards
Posters:
- Mammalian Genome: Roger Sher (The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA)
- Genomics: Alistair Forrest (University of Queensland, Australia)
- Genome Research: Rudi Alberts (Groningen University, the Netherlands)
- Nature Reviews Genetics: Denise Bouvrette (University of Missouri—Columbia, USA)
- Nature Genetics: Joseph Nganga (International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya)
- Nature: Jesse Mager (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
- Springer Publishing Company-- book: Ioannis (John) Stylianou (The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA)
This year the sponsors are:
G
ENOMICS
International Journal for Analyses of the
Human and Other Genomes
