- Source: Larry Sandler Memorial Award
The Larry Sandler Memorial Award is a prestigious international award given for research in the Drosophila community. The award is given for the best dissertation of the preceding year, and is given at the annual Drosophila Research Conference. Awardees may be nominated only by their graduate advisors.
The awardees give the Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture at the annual Drosophila Research Conference. The award honors Dr. Larry Sandler.
Award recipients
1988 Bruce Edgar
1989 Kate Harding
1990 Michael Dickinson
1991 Maurice Kernan
1992 Doug Kellogg
1993 David Schneider
1994 Kendal Broadie
1995 David Begun
1996 Chaoyong Ma
1997 Abby Dernburg
1998 Nir Hacohen
1999 Terence Murphy
2000 Bin Chen
2001 James Wilhelm
2002 Matthew C. Gibson
2003 Sinisa Urban
2004 Sean McGuire
2005 Elissa Hallem
2006 Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos
2007 Yu-Chiun Wang
2008 Adam A. L. Friedman
2009 Timothy T. Weil
2010 Leonardo B. Koerich
2011 Daniel Babcock
2012 Stephanie Turner Chen
2013 Weizhe Hong
2014 Ruei-Jiun Hung
2015 Zhao Zhang
2016 Alejandra Figueroa-Clarevega
2017 Danny E. Miller
2018 Lucy Liu
2019 Laura Seeholzer
2020 Balint Kacsoh
2021 Ching-Ho Chang
2022 Lianna Wat
2023 James O'Connor
2024 Sherzod A. Tokamov
Former chairs of the Award
1988 Chair: Barry Ganetzky
1989 Chair: Barry Ganetzky
1990 Chair: Barry Ganetzky
1991 Chair:
1992 Chair:
1993 Chair:
1994 Chair:
1995 Chair:
1996 Chair: Margaret Fuller ("Minx" Fuller)
1997 Chair: Larry Goldstein
1998 Chair: R. Scott Hawley
1999 Chair: Bill Sullivan
2000 Chair: Bill Saxton
2001 Chair: Lynn Cooley
2002 Chair: Steve DiNardo
2003 Chair: Amanda Simcox ("Mandy Simcox")
2004 Chair: Ross Cagan
2005 Chair: Gerold Schübiger
2006 Chair: R. Scott Hawley
2007 Chair: Helen Salz
2008 Chair: Mariana Wolfner
2009 Chair: John Carlson
2010 Chair: Robin Wharton
2011 Chair: Claude Desplan
2012 Chair: Richard Mann
2013 Chair: Kenneth Irvine
2014 Chair: Marc Freeman
2015 Chair: Erika Bach
2016 Chair: Daniela Drummond-Barbosa
2017 Chair: Bob Duronio
2018 Chair: Kim McCall
2019 Chair: Daniel Barbash
2020 Chair: Barbara Mellone
2021 Chair: Guy Tanentzapf
2022 Chair: Alissa Armstrong
2023 Chair: Tim Mosca
2024 Chair: Elizabeth Rideout
See also
List of biology awards