Herbert E. Carter Travel Award
The Herbert E. Carter Travel Award Program has been established in honor of Dr. Carter's spirit and passion for interdisciplinary scholarship and research in higher education. The award provides up to $600 per year to GIDP students for National or International travel to a conference/professional meeting.
Raphael and Jolene Gruener Research Travel Award
The Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs (GIDP) started the Raphael and Jolene Gruener Research Travel Award in 2011. The Grueners have been tireless supporters of interdisciplinary research and education at the University of Arizona. They are also well known for their love of travel. The Gruener Research Travel Award will support awards that fund student research travel, bringing together these two passions of the Grueners.
The award is intended to offset some of the costs associated with international or domestic travel expenses such as airfare, and meals. This is a meritorious award and will be granted on the competitive and innovative content of the statement submitted with the application. Awards are contingent upon the availability of funds. Students are eligible to receive a total of $1,000 per award year. Students may submit only one application per award year during the open application session.
The Margaret Kidwell Endowment
The Genetics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (GIDP) initiated a fundraising campaign in August 2013 for an annual distinguished lectureship in Genetics at the University of Arizona in honor of Dr. Margaret G. Kidwell, Regents’ Professor Emerita of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB), and previous Chair of the Genetics GIDP.
Margaret Kidwell is renowned for her pioneering studies of transposable genetic elements (jumping genes) and as a role model for women scientists. Margaret’s fascination with genetics started early as a small girl growing up on her father’s pedigree poultry farm in the English Midlands during World War II.
Zukowski Travel Award
Mark Zukowski was a graduate student in Genetics in from 1975 to 1982. He had an illustrious career at Amgen, retired at 55, being an avid enologist, he started a vineyard, and gave back to the programs (undergraduate and graduate) that got him started. His goal was helping students get to conferences, because the college sponsored his travel to a conference and it was a transformative experience. The account is currently closed, but through his generous donation the department was able to help the following students attend conferences all over the country:
| Student | Abstract title | Meeting | Place |
| Kiana Martinez | Patients diagnosed with hEDS and G-HSD have their quality of life similarly disrupted by GI symptoms | Annual Clinical Genetics Metting | Seattle |
| Joey Stolze | Investigating the mechanisms underlying genetic risk for coronary artery disease using endothelial cells | American Society of Human Genetics | Houston |
| Austin Conklin | Using eQTL effect size correlation across tissues to cluster coronary artery disease variants | American Society of Human Genetics | Houston |
| Natalie Payne | Population genomics and viromics of at-risk populations of the following Sonoran mammals | Genomics of Disease in Wildlife Workshop | Fort Collins |
| Selina Kindelay | Investigation of sequence and transcriptional activity of the Drosophila rDNA | 25th Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics | Seattle (online) |
| Esmat Karimi | Effects of OM on contractility of skeletal muscle short fibers from nemaline myopathy patients | Biophysical Society Annual Meeting | San Francisco |
| Roxanne Bantay | Variation in biosynthetic gene clusters & secondary metabolite profiles in Xylaria flabelliformis | Mycological Society of America Meeting | Gainesville |
| Ergul Ergen | Describing genetic interactions between blm and rDNA in Drosophila | Annual Drosophila Research Conference | Chicago |
| Linh Tran | Computationally efficient demographic history inference with supervised machine learning | Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics | Cold Spring Harbor |
| Sydney van Linden | Transcriptional gene networks in the lungs of mice exposed to asthma-protective microbial agents | Symposium of the Collegium Internationale Allergologicum | Montreal |
| Maureen Galindo | Chimeric TNXB/TNXA gene mutations in hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome | American Society of Human Genetics | Washington DC |
| Emily Burke | Establishing Drosophila melanogaster as a model for mechanistic study of immune priming | Entomology 2024 | Phoenix |
| Jaeho Lim | Vsb 1 regulates TORC1 signaling in budding yeast | Mechanisms of Metabolic Signaling | Cold Spring Harbor |
| Collin Krzyzniak | Regional changes in CNS ketamine exposure by an acetaminophen-induced BBB mechanism | Cerebral Vascular Biology | Ann Arbor |
