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American Genetic Association presents the annual Stephen J. O'Brien Award |
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At their June 2009 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 2008 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, and two Associate Editors, Jill Slattery and William Tracy, evaluated all eligible articles. Several high quality papers were considered, and the Council voted to award two young researchers:
Mrs. Maya Sapir-Mir, for her paper "Molecular Aspects of Anthocyanin fruit Tomato in Relation to high pigment-1" (supervisors, Dr. Ilan Levin and Dr. Michal Oren-Shamir, Israeli Agriculture Research Center);
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Summary of winning article and author biography |
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Molecular Aspects of Anthocyanin fruit Tomato in Relation to high pigment-1
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Biography of Maya Sapir-Mir: |
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Summary of winning article and author biography |
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Characterization of the Cheetah Serum Amyloid A1 Gene: Critical Role and Functional Polymorphism of a Cis-Acting Element
Biography of Beiru Zhang:
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Special Event Awards |
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