Awards

Barbara Bowman Distinguished Texas Geneticist Award

 

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Kirkpatrick, the 2021 Barbara Bowman Distinguished Texas Geneticist Award recipient. Barbara Bowman was a founding member of the Texas Genetics Society and this award was established to recognize outstanding geneticists who have made major contributions to the field of genetics and have been affiliated with a Texas institution.

Barbara Bowman Award Recipients


Texas Genetics Society Distinguished Service Award

Congratulations to Dr. Tina Gumienny, recipient of the 2021 Texas Genetics Society Distinguished Service Award for service to the Society.

Distinguished Service Award Recipients


Emeritus Membership

The Board of Directors of the Texas Genetics Society has established an Emeritus Membership to recognize retirees who have contributed significantly to the success of the Society. Congratulations to the 2018 inductees, Dr. Jim Womack and Dr. Joe Angel:

Emeritus Members of the Texas Genetics Society


Trainee Awards

Congratulations to the following trainees who received awards for their presentations at the 48th annual meeting held virtually.

Postdoctoral Scholars

Claudia Castillo-Gonzalez of Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. PROTECTION OF TELOMERES 1b regulates chromatin structure to prevent genomic oxidative damage during development in Arabidopsis thaliana

Rene Solano Fonseca of UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX. Astrocyte-mediated glycolytic preconditioning via electron chain deficits mitigates trauma-induced neurodegeneration

Graduate Students

Naomi McCauley of Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. The role of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 6 in placental development under gestational diabetes

Michelle Jonika of Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Not all centromeres are equal, or are they?

Abigail Sequeira of Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Fitness Effects of a Potentially Selfish Mitochondrial Deletion in Caenorhabditis elegans

Kielen Zuurbier of UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX. The dopaminergic stress response limits dopamine oxidation and toxicity following mechanical stress by preventing cytosolic dopamine accumulation

Undergraduate Students

Mia Jin Hibner of Austin College Sherman, TX. The Impacts of Pesticide Exposure on Zebrafish Development

Mandy Eckhardt of Austin College Sherman, TX. Determining the function of the transcription factor Cmr3 in wild type Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its role in the spt4Δ-mediated rescue of pgm2Δ phenotypes