1st George Streisinger Award

Award Announcement

 

This e-mail is to announce the 1st George Streisinger Award, nominations for which are due April 11, 2016.

The International Zebrafish Society has established the Streisinger Award for a senior investigator who has made outstanding and continued contributions to the advancement of the zebrafish field. George Streisinger (1927-1984) was the founding father of zebrafish research. Working at the University of Oregon in the 1970s and early 1980s, Streisinger established a zebrafish research colony and developed the first methods for mutagenesis and mutant screening with the goal of studying the development of the nervous system through genetic analysis. Streisinger’s enthusiasm for the zebrafish and its potential for understanding vertebrate development was infectious, so that after his untimely death in 1984, his work on this still-nascent model organism was continued and taken in new directions by colleagues at the University of Oregon and around the world. The Streisinger Award recognizes a senior investigator who, like George himself, has done sustained and foundational work that has opened new possibilities within the zebrafish field that benefit all of our research today. Their contributions may be in the form of conceptual advances that have opened important new research directions and/or the development of tools or resources that have been transformative in enabling new research possibilities. The awardee will be recognized at the bi-annual International Conference on Zebrafish Development and Genetics where they will be invited to give a special lecture. In 2016 this meeting will be held under the auspices of The Allied Genetics Conference in Orlando, Florida July 13-17. 

Nominations

Members of the zebrafish community are invited to submit nominations for the Streisinger Award. Nominations should be submitted by e-mail with the subject line “Streisinger Award” by April 11, 2016 to zebrafish@genetics-gsa.org. The application package should be a single PDF file that includes:

1.     A statement (up to one page) written by the nominator describing the key contributions of the nominee to the field. The statement should be co-signed by two or more members of the community who support the nomination. 

2.     A list of up to ten publications or links to online resources or databases that illustrate the central contributions of the nominee to the field.

The 2016 International Zebrafish Society Award Committee

Michael Granato, University of Pennsylvania Dept of Cell and Developmental Biology, Philadelphia.

David Grunwald, University of Utah Dept of Genetics, Salt Lake City.

Graham Lieschke, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Australia.

Cecilia Moens, Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle.

Stephan Neuhauss, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich.

Lila Solnica-Krezel, Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University, St. Louis.