DeLill Nasser
DeLill Nasser | |
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Died | 2000 (aged 70–71) |
Occupation | Geneticist |
Years active | 1967-2000 |
Known for | Program Director for NSF's Genetics Department |
DeLill S. Nasser (1929–2000) was an American geneticist who was referred to by R. Scott Hawley as the "patron saint of real genetics".[1] A Hoosier, she obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees in bacteriology before becoming a professor at the University of Florida. She accepted a position at the National Science Foundation years later and eventually became program director for the eukaryotic division of the genetics program, from which she promoted genetics as its own science. Her promotion of genetics research was highly influential in the creation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome project and its use as a model organism. Given multiple awards for her director work, she had an official scholarship named after her by the Genetics Society of America.
Childhood and education
Born in 1929
Career
Nasser applied for and received a
The previous program director for her department,
Organizations
Nasser was a member of the
Awards
The Director's Award was given to Nasser at the December 7, 2000 meeting of the National Science Foundation at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting, but she was unable to attend and receive the award in person due to the ongoing effects of cancer. In 2001, after Nasser's death, the Genetics Society of America established the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics to be given to graduate-level geneticists in order to fund their research presentations in academic conferences.[12][1]
Personal life
During her college years, Nasser was a member of the Sigma Xi scientific honor society.[5] She died in 2000 from lung cancer.[1]
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