The American Genetic Association grants awards each year to AGA members for support of special events. Eligible sponsored events include specialized workshops open to Association members in areas of great current interest and short courses in some aspect of organismal genetics, but any event that would advance the purpose of the Association is eligible.

This year, the Council approved close to $85,000 in awards for 6 programs focused on camelids, stickleback fish, arthropods, Volvox, landscape and conservation genetics and genomics. Funds are primarily awarded to support students and postdocs to attend these courses, workshops and conferences.

See the Awards page for more details.

At their July 2011 meeting, the Council of the American Genetic Association granted the annual Stephen J. O'Brien Award for best student-authored article published in Journal of Heredity’s 2010 volume. The award honors Dr. Stephen J. O’Brien, Chief of the National Cancer Institute’s Laboratory of Genomic Diversity and head of the Section of Genetics, who served as Editor-In-Chief for the Journal from 1987-2007.

An Award Committee made up of the current Editor-In-Chief, Scott Baker, an Associate Editor, Jill Slattery, and a Council member, Michael Clegg, evaluated all eligible articles. Several high quality papers were considered, and the Council voted to present the award to Dr. Craig Lowe for his article, Endangered Species Hold Clues to Human Evolution (supervisor, Prof David Haussler)

The Award Committee, in presenting their recommendation to Council, had the following comments:

“This article is novel, and displays an impressive application of a bioinformatic approach to an interesting evolutionary genomics question with a nice conservation spin. A good attempt to show the importance of comparative genomics to interpreting human evolution. Encompasses multiple aspects in genome structure and evolution. Nice study!”

The award includes a $1,000 prize, as well as a one-year AGA membership and subscription to the Journal of Heredity.

See the AWARDS page for details.

Issue 102 Supplement: Symposium Issue: Fifth International Conference on Advances in Canine and Feline Genomics and Inherited Diseases, Baltimore, Maryland, 22-25 September 2010
http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/102/Suppl_1.toc

ALL 2010 VOL 102 ARTICLES BY SUBJECT AREA
http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/collection

Issue 101 Supplement: Evolution of Sex & Recombination: In Theory & In Practice
Proceedings of the 2009 University of Iowa Symposium.
http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol101/suppl_1/index.dtl

The Genome 10K Project promotes the curation of genome sequencing for 10,000 representative vertebrate species. Click here: Invited Perspective

AGA Genome Evolution Collection: Articles from the AGA symposium, ‘'Mechanisms of Genome Evolution’' Genome Evolution

100 most-cited articles in the history of the journal 100th

Presentations from the Symposium, Conservation Genomics, held Jul 25-28, 2010, in Hilo, Hawaii are freely available for downloading:

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