The AGA grants EECG Research Awards to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where additional funds would allow them to conclude their research project and prepare it for publication. 51 students and post-docs applied for funding this year.
The AGA Council is pleased to announce the recipients of this year's EECG Awards:
1. $9,362 to Nicolas Nesi (Queen Mary University London): Comparative genomics of sugar-eating bats: Implications for the genetics of glucose metabolism and diabetes
2. $9,927 to Kendall Beals (University of Tennessee): Identifying the drivers of plant functional traits through exploration of the soil microbiome
3. $10,000 to Sheela Turbek (University of Colorado): Explaining mismatches between genetic and phenotypic divergence in a rapid radiation of finch-like birds
4. $6,205 to Kathryn Uckele (University of Nevada Reno): Utilizing a recombinant hybrid zone to elucidate links among genotypic environmental and phenotypic variation
5. $9,673 to Elise Lauterbur (Stony Brook University of California): Genetic complexity of cyanide adaptation in specialist herbivores
6. $9387 to Zachary Cabin (University of California Santa Barbara): Evidence of positive selection on a homeotic mutant of Aquilegia coerulea
7. $10,000 to Paivi Leinonen (Duke University): 'Unearthing the genetic basis of adaptation: Detecting loci involved in local adaptation in the wildflower model system Mimulus
EECG Details:
1. Nesi
Check out our Editor's Choice article by Zimmerman et al., examining the great plains bison at American Prarie, while our cover this issue is courtesy of Winter et al., who lay out the best assembly yet of the beautiful Ural owl
AGA member have elected a new President and Councilors.
Jeff Good
Katie Lotterhos
Al Roca
Christine Edwards
Klaus-Peter Koepfli
Michael Russello
Nevé Baker
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