GSA Poster Award Recipients – Annual Drosophila Research Conference

2023	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Sofia Karter Lopez, University of Toronto	Elizabeth Graham, Georgetown University	Leila Lin, University of California, Irvine
Grad Students:	Audrey Williams, University of Chicago	Brook Falk, The Hospital for Sick Children	Matthew Lindsay, University of Rochester
2022	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Abby Matt, Washington University in St. Louis	Grace Woods, Lewis & Clark College	Jennifer McIntyre, Scripps College & University of California, Irvine
Grad Students:	Aarya Vaikakkara Chithran, University of British Columbia	Maren Janz, University of Osnabrück	Menglin Li, University of California, Santa Barbara
2021	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Umayr Shaikh, Butler University	Sarah Sims, University of Alabama	Abigail Wukitch, Bucknell University
Grad Students:	Mehrnaz Afkhami, University of Oklahoma	Alexander Barron, Johns Hopkins University	Jullien Flynn, Cornell University
2019	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Tanner Call, Brigham Young University — Provo	Jasmina Abdalla, George Washington University	Sylvia Durkin, The Rockefeller University
Grad Students:	Hongru Hu, Florida State University	Kayla Gjelsvik, MDI Biological Laboratory and University of Maine	Natalie Vaisman, Boston University
2018	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Elizabeth Hemenway, University of Missouri-Kansas City	Emily Rivard, College of the Holy Cross	Leah Anderson, The Ohio State University
Grad Students:	Erez Cohen, Duke University Medical School	Ankita Sarkar, University of Dayton	Jackie Bubnell, Cornell University
2017	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Cezary Mikoluk, Penn State Berks	P. Tram Bui, Claremont McKenna College	Kalyn Gackowski, Marquette University
Grad Students:	Dong-Yuan Chen, University of California, Berkeley	Tammara Beeghly, University of Nevada, Las Vegas	Jessica Douthit, New York University School of Medicine
2016	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Niahz Wince, Pennsylvania State University, Berks College	Phuong Nguyen, Drexel University
Grad Students:	Daniel Kelpsch, University of Iowa	Afsoon Saadin, University of Maryland Baltimore County	Sumaira Zamurrad, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
2015	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Jonathan Cohen, Swarthmore College	Ashley Kline, Butler University	Irina Pushel, Michigan State University
Grad Students:	George Aranjuez, Cleveland Clinic Foundation & Case Western Reserve University	Kathleen Cunningham, Johns Hopkins University	Katharine Schulz, University of Wisconsin
Postdocs:	Leila Rieder, Brown University	Justin Cassidy, Northwestern University	Sandra Zimmerman, University of Washington
2014	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Kurtresha Worden, University of Nevada	Dallas Criscoe, North Carolina State University	Robert J. Yamulla, Franklin and Marshall College
Grad Students:	Maureen Cetera, University of Chicago	Gavin R. Rice, University of California, Davis	Sarah Neuman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Postdocs:	Melanie I. Worley, University of California, Berkeley	Malini Natarajan, Stowers Institute for Medical Research	Naoki Okamoto, RIKEN/CDB
2013	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Emily J. Simon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Susanna E. Brantley, Emory University	Marvin Nayan, University of Washington
Grad Students:	Jermaine Ross, National Institutes of Health	Rebecca A. Somer, University of Utah School of Medicine	Balint C. Kacsoh, Emory University
Postdocs:	Miriam Osterfield, Princeton University	Pam Vanderzalm, University of Chicago	Bahar H. Sahin, Bogazici Universitesei
2012	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Katheryn Landy, Rutgers University	Balint Z. Kacsoh, Emory University	Mickey Buckingham, University of Oxford
Grad Students:	Jimok Yoon, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	Qing Shih, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	Julie Tan, University of Toronto
Postdocs:	Young-Jun Kim, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development	Maria Teresa Abreu-Blanco, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Rebecca Fox, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2011	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Sonia M. Hall, University of Kansas	Cameron Berry, University of Chicago
Grad Students:	Yoosik Kim, Princeton University	Imke Schmidt, University of Munster, Germany	Grace Y. Lee, UC-Davis, Davis
Postdocs:	Sean M. Buchanan, The Rosalind Institute	Valerie Hilgers, UC-Berkeley, Berkeley	Ines Ribeiro, UC- San Diego, San Diego
2010	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Undergrads:	Cloyce E. Nelson, University of New Mexico	Cassandra Amesoli, New Mexico State University	Alexander M. Tseng University of Washington
Grad Students:	W. Ryan Williamson, Dong Wang, University of Texas Southwestern Med Center	Vafa Bayat, Baylor College of Medicine	Andrew D. Skora, Carnegie Institution of Science
Postdocs:	Jeremiah J. Zartman, Princeton University	Hiroshi Ishimoto, University of Iowa	Jianhua Huang, University of Maryland
2009	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Students:	Frederick Ling, Yale University	C. Nien, New York University	Mathew Logan Johnson, Case Western Reserve University
Postdocs:	Stefan L. Ameres, University of Massachusetts Medical School	Elena Lucchetta, The University of Chicago	Kevin Legent, New York University Medical Center
2008	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Students:	Holly A. Morrison, University of California, Berkeley	Johnnie Chau, Case Western Reserve University	Tammy Chan, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
Postdocs:	Radmila Capkova-Frydrychova, NIEHS/NIH LMG	John M. Olson, University of California, Los Angeles	Ana Talamillo, CIC bioGUNE
2007	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Students:	Andres Dekanty, Fundacíon Instituto Leloir	Lei Bai, Yale University	Abbie Casper, Johns Hopkins University
Postdocs:	Attilio Pane, Princeton University	Manos Mavrakis, NICHD, NIH	Nir Yakoby, Princeton University
2006	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
	Hillary K. Andrews, Baylor College of Medicine	Zhe Han, University of Texas SW Medical Center	Andrea Hutterer, Institute of Molecular Biology
2005	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
	Vitor J. Barbosa, New York University Skirball Institute	Trent P. Munro, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge	Verena Koelsch, University of Cologne, Institute for Genetics
2004	Outstanding Platform Presentations	Outstanding Poster Presentation	Honorable Mention
	Hyung D. Ryoo, The Rockefeller University	Hirotaka Kanuka, Stanford University School of Medicine	Lazaro Centanin, Instituto Leloir Yoshiko Inoue, Riken-Kobe Andrew Haigh, Dalhousie University