Award Winners for 2006 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 Brooke Miller (The Scripps Research Institute-Florida).
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 James Amos-Landgraf (University of Wisconsin). genesis also gave a $200 cash award for an outstanding oral presentation. This
prize went to Debra Silver (NHGRI).
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.
2006 Awards
Posters:
- Mammalian Genome: Nicola Solomon (University of Michigan)
- Genomics: Khyobeni Mozhuri (University of Tennessee Health Science Center)
- Genome Research: David Homolka
- Nature Reviews Genetics: Nupur Raychaudhuri (UCLA)
- Nature Genetics: Ming Yu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Nature: Amy Baran (Thomas Jefferson University)
- Springer Publishing Company-- books:
- Ron Miller (Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes)
- Suzanne Hartford (Cornell University)
- Kimberly Reese (University of Pennsylvania)
This year the sponsors are:
G ENOMICS
International Journal for Analyses of the Human and Other Genomes
