ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA PIONEERS OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS MEDAL 2021: Finn Jensen

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The 2004 Genetics Society of America Medal.

THE Genetics Society of America is proud to announce Elaine A. Ostrander as recipient of the 2013 Genetics Society of America Medal. Elaine is presently the Chief of the Cancer Genetics Branch at the National Genome Research Institute (National Institutes of Health). Her numerous outstanding contributions to Genetics over her career add to the legacy of this prestigious award. In particular, he...

The 2012 Genetics Society of America Medal: Joanne Chory.

AS a senior graduate student contemplating my postdoctoral options, I was struck by the paper “Arabidopsis thaliana mutant that develops as a light-grown plant in the absence of light” (Chory et al. 1989). The temerity of looking for mutant plants that developed as if in the light when in the dark, along with the fact that this idea was only then being brought to fruition, was striking. The pos...

The 1996 Genetics Society of America Medal Elliot Meyerowitz.

Victor Ambros The 2006 Genetics Society of America Medal

In 1990, Victor Ambros faced a conundrum. The search for the heterochronic gene lin-4 had led him to a 700-bp DNA fragment. This fragment could rescue a lin-4mutant but contained no apparent open reading frame (ORF). The few small ORFs that could be detected were either not conserved in other nematodes or not essential for rescue. Two years and several RNAse protection experiments later, Victor...