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Call for Yeast Genetics Meeting 2018 Award Nominations!

July 25, 2017


The Yeast Genetics Meeting will be held August 22-26, 2018 at Stanford University.

You are invited to submit nominations to the meeting organizers for the awards and presentations that have become a cornerstone of the meeting.

  • The Lifetime Achievement Award is given for lifetime contributions in the field of yeast genetics and outstanding community service.
  • The Ira Herskowitz Award is given for outstanding contributions in the field of yeast research in the last 20 years. This award is usually given to scientists under 50.
  • The Winge-Lindegren Address is a thought-provoking perspective given by a leader in the field of yeast genetics.
  • The Lee Hartwell Lecture is given by a noted researcher in the field who has used yeast in a way that has had an obvious impact on other fields.

Previous awardees are listed on last year’s Yeast Genetics Meeting award site.
 
The deadline for nominations is Tuesday, August 1, 2017. Nominations should include: name, affiliation, email address, and a one or two sentence overview of why you are proposing the individual. Please send nominations to mahoney@genetics-gsa.org.

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