22^nd International Mammalian Genome Conference

La Jolla, CA
2009 November 1-4

Award Winners for 2008 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. Other monetary awards this year are given the American Society of Human Genetics.

A large group of publishing companies sponsor this year’s presentation prizes, which are a one year subscription to their journal. genesis also donated several books. These awards 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.

Oral Presentations:

$500 for Verne Chapman Award

• Darren Logan, Scripps Research Insititute

$250 each from Genetics Society of America

• Amy Baran, Thomas Jefferson University
  
• Krista Geister, University of Michigan

Prizes for Posters:

• Nature:  Fan Yang, University of Washington
  
• Nature Genetics: David Aylor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  
• Nature Reviews Genetics:  Patrick Smith, Tufts University School of Medicine
  
• Genome Research: Simon Harding, MRC< Human Genetics Unit
  
• Genomics:  Wassim Basheer, University of South Carolina

Mammalian Genome:  Gregory Boivin, McGill University

books from genesis:  Tanmoy Bhattacharyya, Institute of Molecular Genetics ASCR

John Calaway, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMartin Goodson, University of OxfordSuzanne Hartford, Cornell UniversityAndrew Hillhouse, University of MissouriSamir Kelada, National Human Genome Research InstituteMegan Mulligan, University of TN Health Science CenterKazuhiro Okumura, Tokyo University of AgricultureMiranda Orr, McLaughlin Research InstituteLauren Walters, Vanderbilt University

From the Nomenclature Committee for Excellence in a poster presentation:  Morag Lewis, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute