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. 2019 Jan;211(1):1-3.
doi: 10.1534/genetics.118.301883.

Barbara J. Meyer: 2018 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal

Nicole Haloupek  1
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Barbara J. Meyer: 2018 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal

Nicole Haloupek. Genetics. 2019 Jan.

Abstract

The Genetics Society of America's (GSA) Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal honors researchers for lifetime achievement in genetics. The recipient of the 2018 Morgan Medal, Barbara J. Meyer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, is recognized for her career-long, groundbreaking investigations of how chromosome behaviors are controlled. Meyer's work has revealed mechanisms of sex determination and dosage compensation in Caenorhabditis elegans that continue to serve as the foundation of diverse areas of study on chromosome structure and function today, nearly 40 years after she began her work on the topic.

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