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STUDENT AWARDS PROGRAM
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The Society will present awards of each for outstanding research presented by a student in each of the following areas: predoctoral clinical, postdoctoral clinical, predoctoral basic, postdoctoral basic, predoctoral translational and postdoctoral translational. Finalists have been selected from nominees who submitted abstracts in the competition. Awardees will be selected by the ASHG Awards Committee during the meeting; results will be announced on Saturday, October 29, at 2:30 PM in the Salt Palace Convention Center, Hall E. The following is a chronological list of the finalists’ papers:
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Name/
Program Number |
Award
Category |
Room |
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| Tischfield, M. A. | 4 | |
Predoctoral
Clinical |
Convention Center,
Hall E |
Wednesday, 2:30 PM (Plenary)
Homozygous HOXA1 mutations disrupt human brainstem, inner ear, cardiovascular, and cognitive development. |
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| Dumitrescu, A. M. | 58 | |
Predoctoral
Clinical |
Convention Center,
Ballroom E-H |
Thursday, 8:15 AM (Platform)
Identification of the first human mutations in a component of the selenocysteine incorporation machinery. |
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| Chang, S. | 138 | |
Postdoctoral
Translational |
Convention Center,
Ballroom I-J |
Thursday, 2:15 PM (Platform)
A first generation drug screen for Fragile X syndrome. |
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| Arking, D. E. | 110 | |
Postdoctoral
Clinical |
Convention Center,
Hall 3 |
Thursday, 2:45 PM (Platform)
Common Variants Influencing the QT-interval by Genome-wide Association Analysis. |
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| Tayeh, M. | 141 | |
Predoctoral
Translational |
Convention Center,
Ballroom I-J |
Thursday, 3:00 PM (Platform)
Bardet-Biedl Syndrome genes are involved in a common pathway affecting intracellular trafficking and cilia maintenance. |
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| Boycott, K. M. | 103 | |
Postdoctoral
Clinical |
Convention Center,
Hall 2 |
Thursday, 3:30 PM (Platform)
Homozygous deletion of the very-low density lipoprotein receptor gene causes autosomal recessive cerebellar hypoplasia with cerebral gyral simplification. |
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| Habashi, J. P. | 125 | |
Postdoctoral
Translational |
Convention Center,
Ballroom A-D |
Thursday, 4:00 PM (Platform)
AT1 blockade rescues multisystem manifestations of Marfan syndrome independent of hemodynamic effects. |
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| Wu, Y. | 160 | |
Postdoctoral
Clinical |
Convention Center,
Hall 1 |
Friday, 8:45 AM (Platform)
Mutations in Ionotropic AMPA Receptor 3 (GluR3) in Males with X-linked Mental Retardation. |
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| Toydemir, R. | 192 | |
Predoctoral
Clinical |
Convention Center,
Ballroom A-D |
Friday, 9:15 AM (Platform)
Freeman-Sheldon syndrome is caused by defects of myosin. |
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| Davis, R. E. | 163 | |
Predoctoral
Translational |
Convention Center,
Hall 1 |
Friday, 9:30 AM (Platform)
The common Bardet-Biedl syndrome type 1 (BBS1) M390R mutation is a hypomorphic allele that protects against embryonic lethality and cardiovascular defects. |
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| Khalil, A. | 213 | |
Postdoctoral
Basic |
Convention Center,
Ballroom I-J |
Friday, 9:30 AM (Platform)
Epigenetic Regulation of Pericentromeric Heterochromatin during Mammalian Meiosis. |
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| Gibson, J. | 186 | |
Predoctoral
Basic |
Convention Center,
Hall 3 |
Friday, 10:15 AM (Platform)
Long tracts of homozygosity in the HapMap data. |
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| Mendenhall, E. | 910 | |
Predoctoral
Basic |
Convention Center,
Hall D |
Friday, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM (Poster)
Functional identification of candidate genes using hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) expression data and genetic screening. |
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| Yang, N. | 952 | |
Predoctoral
Basic |
Convention Center,
Hall D |
Friday, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM (Poster)
RNAi is an intrinsic mechanism for human L1 retrotransposon control. |
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| Heggestad, A. D. | 249 | |
Predoctoral
Translational |
Convention Center,
Hall 3 |
Saturday, 8:30 AM (Platform)
Spatial organization of the Prader-Willi/Angelman Syndrome region is dependent on the parent of origin. |
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| Willenbring, H. | 233 | |
Postdoctoral
Translational |
Convention Center,
Hall 1 |
Saturday, 9:30 AM (Platform)
Loss of p21 permits carcinogenesis from chronically damaged liver and kidney epithelial cells despite unchecked apoptosis. |
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| Bradshaw, P. S. | 234 | |
Postdoctoral
Basic |
Convention Center,
Hall 1 |
Saturday, 9:45 AM (Platform)
The human telomere maintenance proteins TRF2 and TRF1 are involved in an early DNA damage response. |
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| Alisch, R. S. | 266 | |
Postdoctoral
Basic |
Convention Center,
Ballroom A-D |
Saturday, 10:15 AM (Platform)
Disruption of the microRNA pathway by the targeted loss of Eif2c2 results in aberrant primitive streak formation. |
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