Chris Preston of the Genetics Department won the award in recognition of her superb studies of transposable genetic elements and DNA repair in Drosophila. For more about Chris's work, see the home pages of her lab and PI.
Chris making her acceptance speech wearing a Drosophila brooch. That's David Ward in the background trying to get into the picture.
One of her recent projects was the development of a new and highly useful way to generate deletions in the Drosophila genome.
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