42nd Annual Drosophila Research Conference
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C.
MARCH 21-25, 2001

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Call For Nominations

Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture

We invite nominations of candidates to present the 14th Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture held on the opening night of the 42nd Annual Drosophila Research Conference, March 21, 2001, in Washington, D.C.

Any student completing a Ph.D. in an area of Drosophila research in calendar year 2000 is eligible and may be nominated by his/her thesis advisor. Past recipients of this honor are:

Bruce Edgar, 1988
Kate Harding, 1989
Michael Dickinson, 1990     
Maurice Kernan, 1991
Doug Kellogg, 1992
David Schneider, 1993
Kendal Broadie, 1994
David Begun, 1995
Chaoyong Ma, 1996
Abby Dernburg, 1997
Nir Hacohen, 1998
Terence Murphy, 1999
Bin Chen, 2000

Nominations should include a curriculum vita, a thesis abstract of one or two pages, and a letter of nomination from the advisor.

Nominations should be sent for receipt by December 11, 2000, to:

Lynn Cooley
Department of Genetics
Yale University School of Medicine
333 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT 06510-3219
telephone: (203) 785-5067    fax: (203) 785-6333
e-mail: lynn.cooley@yale.edu